At $18,966 per pupil, Opdyke-Belle-Rive Ccsd 5 ranks #290 of 845 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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$18,966
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School Types
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 $18,966 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 845 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).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 4.8% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (145 to 138 students), and the student-teacher ratio held roughly steady, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $3,115,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 56.9% went to instruction, 27.3% to support services, and 8.1% to capital outlay, a fairly typical instruction/support/capital split for a public school district. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
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 largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
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.