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Hopkins Park, Illinois - 1 schools
At $26,973 per pupil, Pembroke Ccsd 259 ranks #31 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Pembroke Ccsd 259 operates 1 public schools serving 166 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 Kankakee County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $26,973 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 85 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending. See how Illinois compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 13.6% local, 43.7% state, and 42.8% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 60.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 45.6% African American, 39.4% Hispanic or Latino, 7.8% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Lorenzo R Smith Elem School, enrolling 193 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Lorenzo R Smith Elem School accounts for 100.0% of all Pembroke Ccsd 259 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Pembroke Ccsd 259 a distant remainder — means Pembroke Ccsd 259-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.
Pembroke Ccsd 259 chronic absenteeism rate is 60.6% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.