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Mendota, Illinois - 3 schools
An equity score of 34/100 ranks Mendota Ccsd 289 #482 of 763 districts in Illinois (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $13,069 per pupil, Mendota Ccsd 289 ranks #692 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
1,040
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$13,069
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Mendota Ccsd 289 operates 3 public schools serving 1,040 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 3 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 Lasalle County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $13,069 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending. See how Illinois compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 45.9% local, 39.8% state, and 14.3% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 34/100, ranked #482 of 763 in Illinois against a state average of 38, in line with the typical spread seen across the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 526:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 39.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 51.4% White, 41.9% Hispanic or Latino, 2.2% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Blackstone Elem School, with a diversity index of 56.5/100.
Its largest campus is Northbrook School, enrolling 526 students (50% of the district's total enrollment).
Northbrook School accounts for 50.5% of all Mendota Ccsd 289 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Mendota Ccsd 289 a distant remainder — means Mendota Ccsd 289-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.
Mendota Ccsd 289 school enrollment varies 2.7× across entities
Mendota Ccsd 289 school enrollment ranges from 197 students (lowest) to 526 students (highest), a spread of 329 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Mendota Ccsd 289 student-counselor ratio is 526:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 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.
Mendota Ccsd 289 chronic absenteeism rate is 39.3% — 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.