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Ludlow, Illinois - 1 schools
At $23,554 per pupil, Ludlow Ccsd 142 ranks #80 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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$23,554
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Ludlow Ccsd 142 operates 1 public schools serving 61 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 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 Champaign County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $23,554 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 36.5% local, 39.9% state, and 23.5% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 57.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 48.1% Hispanic or Latino, 32.7% White, 3.8% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Ludlow Elementary School, enrolling 52 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Ludlow Elementary School accounts for 85.2% of all Ludlow Ccsd 142 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Ludlow Ccsd 142 a distant remainder — means Ludlow Ccsd 142-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.
Ludlow Ccsd 142 chronic absenteeism rate is 57.7% — 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.