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Northbrook, Illinois - 3 schools
An equity score of 47/100 ranks Northbrook/Glenview Sd 30 #169 of 763 districts in Illinois (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $24,636 per pupil, Northbrook/Glenview Sd 30 ranks #60 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
1,254
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$24,636
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Northbrook/Glenview Sd 30 operates 3 public schools serving 1,254 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary, 1 middle, 1 combined 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 Cook County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $24,636 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 77.2% local, 20.3% state, and 2.6% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 47/100, ranked #169 of 763 in Illinois against a state average of 38, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
and 7.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 50.0% White, 34.9% Asian, 6.2% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Maple School, with a diversity index of 63.4/100.
Its largest campus is Wescott Elementary School, enrolling 469 students (38% of the district's total enrollment).
Wescott Elementary School accounts for 37.4% of all Northbrook/Glenview Sd 30 student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Northbrook/Glenview Sd 30-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.
Northbrook/Glenview Sd 30 chronic absenteeism rate is 7.0% — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.