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Gardner, Illinois - 1 schools
At $22,442 per pupil, Gardner S Wilmington Twp Hsd 73 ranks #102 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
147
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$22,442
Per-Pupil Spending
High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Gardner S Wilmington Twp Hsd 73 operates 1 public schools serving 147 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 high 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 Grundy County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $22,442 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending. See how Illinois compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 60.0% local, 35.8% state, and 4.2% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
a 154:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 29.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 92.9% White, 6.5% Hispanic or Latino, 0.6% African American across the district's schools.
Gardner-South Wilmington Twp H S accounts for 100.0% of all Gardner S Wilmington Twp Hsd 73 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Gardner S Wilmington Twp Hsd 73 a distant remainder — means Gardner S Wilmington Twp Hsd 73-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.
Gardner S Wilmington Twp Hsd 73 student-counselor ratio is 154:1 — 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.
Gardner S Wilmington Twp Hsd 73 chronic absenteeism rate is 29.2% — 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 Gardner S Wilmington Twp Hsd 73 is typically wider than the Gardner S Wilmington Twp Hsd 73-aggregate figure suggests.
Comparisons are relative to Gardner S Wilmington Twp Hsd 73's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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