An equity score of 35/100 ranks Deer Creek-Mackinaw Cusd 701 #455 of 759 districts in Illinois (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $14,143 per pupil, Deer Creek-Mackinaw Cusd 701 ranks #677 of 845 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
953
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$14,143
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Deer Creek-Mackinaw Cusd 701 operates 3 public schools serving 953 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 1 high, 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 Tazewell County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $14,143 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 845 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending. See how Illinois compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 47.7% local, 45.9% state, and 6.4% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 35/100, ranked #455 of 759 in Illinois against a state average of 38, in line with the typical spread seen across the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 3 schools offering Advanced Placement (4 AP courses district-wide), a 375.9:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 17.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 94.6% White, 2.3% Hispanic or Latino, 0.6% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Dee-Mack Primary/Jr High, with a diversity index of 12.8/100.
Its largest campus is Dee-Mack Primary/Jr High, enrolling 432 students (46% of the district's total enrollment).
Dee-Mack Primary/Jr High accounts for 45.3% of all Deer Creek-Mackinaw Cusd 701 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Deer Creek-Mackinaw Cusd 701 a distant remainder — means Deer Creek-Mackinaw Cusd 701-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.
Deer Creek-Mackinaw Cusd 701 student-counselor ratio is 376:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Deer Creek-Mackinaw Cusd 701 chronic absenteeism rate is 17.8% — 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 Deer Creek-Mackinaw Cusd 701 is typically wider than the Deer Creek-Mackinaw Cusd 701-aggregate figure suggests.