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Edwardsville, Illinois - 13 schools
An equity score of 11/100 ranks Edwardsville Cusd 7 #755 of 763 districts in Illinois (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $12,617 per pupil, Edwardsville Cusd 7 ranks #741 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
7,274
Total Enrollment
13
Schools
$12,617
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Edwardsville Cusd 7 operates 13 public schools serving 7,274 students, placing it among the smaller districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 6 combined, 4 elementary, 2 middle, 1 high schools, a compact enough portfolio that families can compare every campus directly before they move, rent, or enrol. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Madison County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $12,617 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending. See how Illinois compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 66.7% local, 26.9% state, and 6.4% 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 11/100, ranked #755 of 763 in Illinois against a state average of 38, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 13 schools offering Advanced Placement (15 AP courses district-wide), a 499.8:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 20.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 77.3% White, 6.6% African American, 5.9% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is N O Nelson Elem School, with a diversity index of 54.0/100.
Its largest campus is Edwardsville High School, enrolling 2,342 students (33% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Midway School, at 120 students, a 20x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Edwardsville High School accounts for 32.2% of all Edwardsville Cusd 7 student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Edwardsville Cusd 7-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. 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.
Edwardsville Cusd 7 school enrollment varies 20× across entities
Edwardsville Cusd 7 school enrollment ranges from 120 students (lowest) to 2,342 students (highest), a spread of 2,222 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Edwardsville Cusd 7 student-counselor ratio is 500:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 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.
Edwardsville Cusd 7 chronic absenteeism rate is 20.7% — 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 Edwardsville Cusd 7 is typically wider than the Edwardsville Cusd 7-aggregate figure suggests.