At $18,070 per pupil, Hartsburg Emden Cusd 21 ranks #340 of 845 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
187
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$18,070
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 $18,070 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 845 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).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 5.3% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (187 to 177 students), and the student-teacher ratio held roughly steady, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $3,816,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 53% went to instruction, 29.9% to support services, and 7.1% to capital outlay, a fairly typical instruction/support/capital split for a public school district. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
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 largest entity. Grade band: elementary. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.
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.