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Crescent City, Illinois - 1 schools
At $25,182 per pupil, Crescent Iroquois Cusd 249 ranks #52 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
68
Total Enrollment
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Schools
$25,182
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Crescent Iroquois Cusd 249 operates 1 public schools serving 68 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Iroquois County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $25,182 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 85 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending. See how Illinois compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 67.0% local, 25.1% state, and 7.9% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
and 20.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 79.6% White, 7.4% Hispanic or Latino, 1.9% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Crescent City Grade School, enrolling 54 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Crescent City Grade School accounts for 79.4% of all Crescent Iroquois Cusd 249 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Crescent Iroquois Cusd 249 a distant remainder — means Crescent Iroquois Cusd 249-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Crescent Iroquois Cusd 249 chronic absenteeism rate is 20.4% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Variation between sub-units within Crescent Iroquois Cusd 249 is typically wider than the Crescent Iroquois Cusd 249-aggregate figure suggests.