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Ottawa, Illinois - 1 schools
At $24,619 per pupil, Deer Park Ccsd 82 ranks #62 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Deer Park Ccsd 82 operates 1 public schools serving 47 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined 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 Lasalle County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $24,619 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 67.6% local, 28.3% state, and 4.1% 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 29.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 86.4% White, 9.1% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Deer Park C C Elem School, enrolling 44 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Deer Park C C Elem School accounts for 93.6% of all Deer Park Ccsd 82 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Deer Park Ccsd 82 a distant remainder — means Deer Park Ccsd 82-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. 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.
Deer Park Ccsd 82 chronic absenteeism rate is 29.5% — 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 Park Ccsd 82 is typically wider than the Deer Park Ccsd 82-aggregate figure suggests.