At $26,326 per pupil, Grass Lake Sd 36 ranks #64 of 845 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Grass Lake Sd 36 operates 1 public schools serving 187 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 Lake County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $26,326 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 85 of 845 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending. See how Illinois compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 63.0% local, 25.0% state, and 12.0% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
and 25.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 74.2% White, 21.5% Hispanic or Latino, 2.2% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Grass Lake Elem School, enrolling 186 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 4.3% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (187 to 179 students), and the student-teacher ratio tightened by 2.4 students per teacher as staffing held steadier than enrollment, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $5,494,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 42.2% went to instruction, 45.6% to support services, and 2.5% to capital outlay, support-services-heavy relative to typical districts, reflecting spending on transportation, administration, or student services. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Grass Lake Elem School accounts for 99.5% of all Grass Lake Sd 36 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Grass Lake Sd 36 a distant remainder — means Grass Lake Sd 36-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Grass Lake Sd 36 chronic absenteeism rate is 25.8% — 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 Grass Lake Sd 36 is typically wider than the Grass Lake Sd 36-aggregate figure suggests.