At $18,044 per pupil, Desoto Cons Sd 86 ranks #342 of 845 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Desoto Cons Sd 86 operates 1 public schools serving 180 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 Jackson County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $18,044 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 845 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending. See how Illinois compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 44.7% local, 44.4% state, and 10.8% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 198:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 39.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 79.3% White, 5.1% African American, 3.5% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Desoto Elementary School, enrolling 198 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 6.7% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (180 to 192 students), while the student-teacher ratio widened by 1.2 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $3,995,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 48% went to instruction, 28.9% to support services, and 14.6% to capital outlay, a fairly typical instruction/support/capital split for a public school district. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Desoto Elementary School accounts for 100.0% of all Desoto Cons Sd 86 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Desoto Cons Sd 86 a distant remainder — means Desoto Cons Sd 86-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. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Desoto Cons Sd 86 student-counselor ratio is 198:1 — 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.
Desoto Cons Sd 86 chronic absenteeism rate is 39.9% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.