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Hartsburg, Illinois - 2 schools
At $18,075 per pupil, Hartsburg Emden Cusd 21 ranks #270 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
187
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$18,075
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Hartsburg Emden Cusd 21 operates 2 public schools serving 187 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary, 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 Logan County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $18,075 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 63.9% local, 28.1% state, and 8.0% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
a 87.5:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 31.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 97.2% White, 1.7% African American, 1.2% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Emden Elementary School, enrolling 90 students (51% of the district's total enrollment).
Emden Elementary School accounts for 48.1% of all Hartsburg Emden Cusd 21 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Hartsburg Emden Cusd 21 a distant remainder — means Hartsburg Emden Cusd 21-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. 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.
Hartsburg Emden Cusd 21 student-counselor ratio is 88:1 — 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.
Hartsburg Emden Cusd 21 chronic absenteeism rate is 31.0% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.