At $26,880 per pupil, Pembroke Ccsd 259 ranks #50 of 845 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 $26,880 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 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).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 19.9% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (166 to 199 students), while the student-teacher ratio tightened by 1.8 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $4,790,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 33.8% went to instruction, 55.2% to support services, and 1% 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.
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 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.
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.