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Oak Lawn, Illinois - 6 schools
An equity score of 35/100 ranks Oak Lawn-Hometown Sd 123 #457 of 763 districts in Illinois (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $16,369 per pupil, Oak Lawn-Hometown Sd 123 ranks #390 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
3,388
Total Enrollment
6
Schools
$16,369
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Oak Lawn-Hometown Sd 123 operates 6 public schools serving 3,388 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 4 combined, 1 middle, 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 Cook County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $16,369 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 60.3% local, 32.7% state, and 7.1% 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 35/100, ranked #457 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 395.3:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 23.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 50.1% Hispanic or Latino, 36.5% White, 7.2% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is J M Hannum Elem School, with a diversity index of 66.3/100.
Its largest campus is Oak Lawn-Hometown Middle Sch, enrolling 1,090 students (35% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Hometown Elem School, at 338 students, a 3x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Oak Lawn-Hometown Middle Sch accounts for 32.2% of all Oak Lawn-Hometown Sd 123 student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Oak Lawn-Hometown Sd 123-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: middle. 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.
Oak Lawn-Hometown Sd 123 school enrollment varies 3.2× across entities
Oak Lawn-Hometown Sd 123 school enrollment ranges from 338 students (lowest) to 1,090 students (highest), a spread of 752 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.
Oak Lawn-Hometown Sd 123 student-counselor ratio is 395:1 — 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.
Oak Lawn-Hometown Sd 123 chronic absenteeism rate is 23.6% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
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 Variation between sub-units within Oak Lawn-Hometown Sd 123 is typically wider than the Oak Lawn-Hometown Sd 123-aggregate figure suggests.