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Peoria, Illinois - 2 schools
An equity score of 43/100 ranks Norwood Esd 63 #281 of 763 districts in Illinois (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $12,022 per pupil, Norwood Esd 63 ranks #776 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
400
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$12,022
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Norwood Esd 63 operates 2 public schools serving 400 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 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 Peoria County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $12,022 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 34.8% local, 50.7% state, and 14.5% 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 43/100, ranked #281 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 374:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 47.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 77.3% White, 7.3% Hispanic or Latino, 7.3% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Norwood Primary School, enrolling 224 students (60% of the district's total enrollment).
Norwood Primary School accounts for 56.0% of all Norwood Esd 63 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Norwood Esd 63 a distant remainder — means Norwood Esd 63-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.
Norwood Esd 63 student-counselor ratio is 374:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Norwood Esd 63 chronic absenteeism rate is 47.8% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 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.