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Middletown, Illinois - 1 schools
At $19,420 per pupil, New Holland-Middletown Ed 88 ranks #201 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
75
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$19,420
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
New Holland-Middletown Ed 88 operates 1 public schools serving 75 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 Logan County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $19,420 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 60.0% local, 28.0% state, and 12.0% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
and 38.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 94.3% White, 4.3% African American across the district's schools.
New Holland-Middletown Elem Sch accounts for 93.3% of all New Holland-Middletown Ed 88 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of New Holland-Middletown Ed 88 a distant remainder — means New Holland-Middletown Ed 88-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.
New Holland-Middletown Ed 88 chronic absenteeism rate is 38.6% — 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.