At $21,160 per pupil, Nettle Creek Ccsd 24c ranks #183 of 845 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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Schools
$21,160
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Nettle Creek Ccsd 24c operates 1 public schools serving 81 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 Grundy County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $21,160 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 70.2% local, 25.0% state, and 4.8% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
. Demographically, the student body averages 92.2% White, 6.5% Hispanic or Latino, 1.3% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Nettle Creek Elem School, enrolling 77 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 3.7% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (81 to 78 students), and the student-teacher ratio held roughly steady, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $2,017,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 50.7% went to instruction, 32.4% to support services, and 9.7% 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.
Nettle Creek Elem School accounts for 95.1% of all Nettle Creek Ccsd 24c student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Nettle Creek Ccsd 24c a distant remainder — means Nettle Creek Ccsd 24c-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. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.