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Opdyke, Illinois - 1 schools
At $15,514 per pupil, Opdyke-Belle-Rive Ccsd 5 ranks #457 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Opdyke-Belle-Rive Ccsd 5 operates 1 public schools serving 145 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 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 Jefferson County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $15,514 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending. See how Illinois compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 33.8% local, 39.4% state, and 26.8% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 30.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 95.1% White, 1.6% African American, 0.8% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Opdyke-Belle Rive Grade Sch, enrolling 122 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Opdyke-Belle Rive Grade Sch accounts for 84.1% of all Opdyke-Belle-Rive Ccsd 5 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Opdyke-Belle-Rive Ccsd 5 a distant remainder — means Opdyke-Belle-Rive Ccsd 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.
Opdyke-Belle-Rive Ccsd 5 chronic absenteeism rate is 30.3% — 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.