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Riverdale, Illinois - 1 schools
An equity score of 44/100 ranks Gen George Patton Sd 133 #261 of 763 districts in Illinois (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $26,843 per pupil, Gen George Patton Sd 133 ranks #33 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Gen George Patton Sd 133 operates 1 public schools serving 236 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 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 Cook County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $26,843 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 85 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending. See how Illinois compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 40.0% local, 49.1% state, and 10.9% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 44/100, ranked #261 of 763 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.
and 63.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 97.3% African American, 1.6% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Gen George Patton Elem School, enrolling 184 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Gen George Patton Elem School accounts for 78.0% of all Gen George Patton Sd 133 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Gen George Patton Sd 133 a distant remainder — means Gen George Patton Sd 133-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.
Gen George Patton Sd 133 chronic absenteeism rate is 63.6% — 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.