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Forreston, Illinois - 3 schools
An equity score of 28/100 ranks Forrestville Valley Cusd 221 #600 of 763 districts in Illinois (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $14,364 per pupil, Forrestville Valley Cusd 221 ranks #565 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Forrestville Valley Cusd 221 operates 3 public schools serving 752 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 combined, 1 elementary 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 Ogle County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $14,364 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 54.4% local, 38.9% state, and 6.7% 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 28/100, ranked #600 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 3 schools offering Advanced Placement (2 AP courses district-wide), a 203:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 16.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 88.0% White, 6.3% Hispanic or Latino, 0.3% Asian across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Forreston Jr/Sr High Sch, with a diversity index of 27.6/100.
Its largest campus is Forreston Jr/Sr High Sch, enrolling 406 students (57% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is German Valley Grade School, at 70 students, a 6x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Forreston Jr/Sr High Sch accounts for 54.0% of all Forrestville Valley Cusd 221 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Forrestville Valley Cusd 221 a distant remainder — means Forrestville Valley Cusd 221-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.
Forrestville Valley Cusd 221 school enrollment varies 5.8× across entities
Forrestville Valley Cusd 221 school enrollment ranges from 70 students (lowest) to 406 students (highest), a spread of 336 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.
Forrestville Valley Cusd 221 student-counselor ratio is 203:1 — 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.
Forrestville Valley Cusd 221 chronic absenteeism rate is 16.9% — 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 Forrestville Valley Cusd 221 is typically wider than the Forrestville Valley Cusd 221-aggregate figure suggests.