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Willowbrook, Illinois - 2 schools
An equity score of 40/100 ranks Gower Sd 62 #346 of 763 districts in Illinois (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $24,280 per pupil, Gower Sd 62 ranks #66 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
923
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$24,280
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Gower Sd 62 operates 2 public schools serving 923 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 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 Dupage County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $24,280 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 72.7% local, 22.0% state, and 5.3% 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 40/100, ranked #346 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.
a 735.5:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 15.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 57.1% White, 16.1% Hispanic or Latino, 14.3% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Gower West Elem School, enrolling 531 students (56% of the district's total enrollment).
Gower West Elem School accounts for 56.5% of all Gower Sd 62 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Gower Sd 62 a distant remainder — means Gower Sd 62-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.
Gower Sd 62 student-counselor ratio is 736:1 — 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.
Gower Sd 62 chronic absenteeism rate is 15.5% — 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 Gower Sd 62 is typically wider than the Gower Sd 62-aggregate figure suggests.