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De Land, Illinois - 3 schools
At $20,911 per pupil, Deland-Weldon Cusd 57 ranks #146 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
173
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$20,911
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Deland-Weldon Cusd 57 operates 3 public schools serving 173 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 1 high, 1 middle 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 Piatt County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $20,911 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending. See how Illinois compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 67.5% local, 21.2% state, and 11.3% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
a 200.7:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 29.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 90.8% White, 3.3% African American, 2.2% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Deland-Weldon Middle School, with a diversity index of 19.9/100.
Its largest campus is Deland-Weldon Elem School, enrolling 100 students (58% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Deland-Weldon Middle School, at 28 students, a 4x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Deland-Weldon Elem School accounts for 57.8% of all Deland-Weldon Cusd 57 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Deland-Weldon Cusd 57 a distant remainder — means Deland-Weldon Cusd 57-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.
Deland-Weldon Cusd 57 school enrollment varies 3.6× across entities
Deland-Weldon Cusd 57 school enrollment ranges from 28 students (lowest) to 100 students (highest), a spread of 72 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Deland-Weldon Cusd 57 student-counselor ratio is 201:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Deland-Weldon Cusd 57 chronic absenteeism rate is 29.0% — 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 Deland-Weldon Cusd 57 is typically wider than the Deland-Weldon Cusd 57-aggregate figure suggests.