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Hazel Crest, Illinois - 2 schools
An equity score of 46/100 ranks Hazel Crest Sd 152-5 #199 of 763 districts in Illinois (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $18,582 per pupil, Hazel Crest Sd 152-5 ranks #239 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
895
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$18,582
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Hazel Crest Sd 152-5 operates 2 public schools serving 895 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 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 $18,582 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 39.8% local, 51.2% state, and 9.0% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 46/100, ranked #199 of 763 in Illinois against a state average of 38, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 445.5:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 45.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 83.5% African American, 12.6% Hispanic or Latino, 0.7% White across the district's schools.
Barack H Obama Learning Academy accounts for 52.1% of all Hazel Crest Sd 152-5 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Hazel Crest Sd 152-5 a distant remainder — means Hazel Crest Sd 152-5-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.
Hazel Crest Sd 152-5 student-counselor ratio is 446:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Hazel Crest Sd 152-5 chronic absenteeism rate is 45.0% — 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.