At $17,420 per pupil, Potomac Cusd 10 ranks #397 of 845 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Potomac Cusd 10 operates 1 public schools serving 143 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 Vermilion County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $17,420 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 46.3% local, 41.8% state, and 11.9% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 21.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 92.0% White, 1.5% Hispanic or Latino, 0.7% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Potomac Elem School, enrolling 137 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 9.8% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (143 to 129 students), and the student-teacher ratio tightened by 0.9 students per teacher as staffing held steadier than enrollment, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $3,323,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 44.7% went to instruction, 26.4% to support services, and 4.8% 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.
Potomac Elem School accounts for 95.8% of all Potomac Cusd 10 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Potomac Cusd 10 a distant remainder — means Potomac Cusd 10-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.
Potomac Cusd 10 chronic absenteeism rate is 21.9% — 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 Potomac Cusd 10 is typically wider than the Potomac Cusd 10-aggregate figure suggests.