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Eldorado, Illinois - 3 schools
1,077
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
-
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Eldorado Cusd 4 operates 3 public schools serving 1,077 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 Saline County.
a 200.3:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 31.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 90.5% White, 3.2% Hispanic or Latino, 1.0% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Eldorado Elem School, with a diversity index of 23.8/100.
Its largest campus is Eldorado Elem School, enrolling 550 students (50% of the district's total enrollment).
Eldorado Elem School accounts for 49.8% of all Eldorado Cusd 4 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Eldorado Cusd 4 a distant remainder — means Eldorado Cusd 4-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.
Eldorado Cusd 4 school enrollment varies 2.2× across entities
Eldorado Cusd 4 school enrollment ranges from 246 students (lowest) to 550 students (highest), a spread of 304 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.
Eldorado Cusd 4 student-counselor ratio is 200:1 — 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.
Eldorado Cusd 4 chronic absenteeism rate is 31.1% — 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.