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Oakland, Illinois - 2 schools
An equity score of 53/100 ranks Oakland Cusd 5 #73 of 763 districts in Illinois (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $16,203 per pupil, Oakland Cusd 5 ranks #402 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
252
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$16,203
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Oakland Cusd 5 operates 2 public schools serving 252 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 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 Coles County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $16,203 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 49.9% local, 37.1% state, and 12.9% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 53/100, ranked #73 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.
a 123:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 22.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 97.0% White, 1.4% Hispanic or Latino, 0.8% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Lake Crest Elem School, enrolling 185 students (75% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Oakland High School, at 61 students, a 3x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Lake Crest Elem School accounts for 73.4% of all Oakland Cusd 5 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Oakland Cusd 5 a distant remainder — means Oakland Cusd 5-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.
Oakland Cusd 5 student-counselor ratio is 123:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 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.
Oakland Cusd 5 chronic absenteeism rate is 22.9% — 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 Oakland Cusd 5 is typically wider than the Oakland Cusd 5-aggregate figure suggests.