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Norris City, Illinois - 3 schools
An equity score of 45/100 ranks Norris City-Omaha-Enfield Cusd 3 #228 of 763 districts in Illinois (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $11,900 per pupil, Norris City-Omaha-Enfield Cusd 3 ranks #785 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
699
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$11,900
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Norris City-Omaha-Enfield Cusd 3 operates 3 public schools serving 699 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 combined, 1 high 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 White County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $11,900 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the bottom 85 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending. See how Illinois compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 28.3% local, 56.1% state, and 15.6% 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 45/100, ranked #228 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 225.4:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 37.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 95.0% White, 1.4% Hispanic or Latino, 0.1% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Norris City-Omaha Elem School, enrolling 416 students (60% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Booth Elementary School, at 82 students, a 5x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Norris City-Omaha Elem School accounts for 59.5% of all Norris City-Omaha-Enfield Cusd 3 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Norris City-Omaha-Enfield Cusd 3 a distant remainder — means Norris City-Omaha-Enfield Cusd 3-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.
Norris City-Omaha-Enfield Cusd 3 school enrollment varies 5.1× across entities
Norris City-Omaha-Enfield Cusd 3 school enrollment ranges from 82 students (lowest) to 416 students (highest), a spread of 334 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.
Norris City-Omaha-Enfield Cusd 3 student-counselor ratio is 225:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Norris City-Omaha-Enfield Cusd 3 chronic absenteeism rate is 37.8% — 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.
Comparisons are relative to Norris City-Omaha-Enfield Cusd 3's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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