An equity score of 45/100 ranks Earlville Cusd 9 #234 of 759 districts in Illinois (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $16,638 per pupil, Earlville Cusd 9 ranks #449 of 845 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
378
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$16,638
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Earlville Cusd 9 operates 3 public schools serving 378 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary, 1 high, 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 $16,638 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 62.9% local, 25.1% state, and 12.0% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 45/100, ranked #234 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.
a 97:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 45.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 83.8% White, 13.7% Hispanic or Latino, 0.7% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Earlville Jr/Sr High School, with a diversity index of 31.9/100.
Its largest campus is Earlville Elem School, enrolling 253 students (62% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is The Earlville Early Learning Ctr, at 55 students, a 5x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Earlville Elem School accounts for 62.5% of all Earlville Cusd 9 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Earlville Cusd 9 a distant remainder — means Earlville Cusd 9-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: elementary. 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.
Earlville Cusd 9 school enrollment varies 4.6× across entities
Earlville Cusd 9 school enrollment ranges from 55 students (lowest) to 253 students (highest), a spread of 198 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.
Earlville Cusd 9 student-counselor ratio is 97:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Earlville Cusd 9 chronic absenteeism rate is 45.2% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.