At $27,719 per pupil, Paw Paw Cusd 271 ranks #46 of 845 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
114
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$27,719
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Paw Paw Cusd 271 operates 2 public schools serving 114 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary, 1 middle 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 Lee County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $27,719 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 85 of 845 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending. See how Illinois compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 70.6% local, 16.5% state, and 12.9% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
and 15.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 83.6% White, 11.8% Hispanic or Latino, 2.9% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Paw Paw Elem School, enrolling 87 students (67% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 11.4% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (114 to 127 students), while the student-teacher ratio widened by 0.7 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $4,110,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 32.7% went to instruction, 42.3% to support services, and 3.2% to capital outlay, support-services-heavy relative to typical districts, reflecting spending on transportation, administration, or student services. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Paw Paw Elem School accounts for 67.4% of all Paw Paw Cusd 271 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Paw Paw Cusd 271 a distant remainder — means Paw Paw Cusd 271-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: elementary. 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.
Paw Paw Cusd 271 chronic absenteeism rate is 15.8% — 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 Paw Paw Cusd 271 is typically wider than the Paw Paw Cusd 271-aggregate figure suggests.