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Niantic, Illinois - 4 schools
An equity score of 40/100 ranks Sangamon Valley Cusd 9 #351 of 763 districts in Illinois (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $14,936 per pupil, Sangamon Valley Cusd 9 ranks #511 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
644
Total Enrollment
4
Schools
$14,936
Per-Pupil Spending
High, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Sangamon Valley Cusd 9 operates 4 public schools serving 644 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 high, 1 combined, 1 middle, 1 elementary 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 Macon County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $14,936 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending. See how Illinois compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 56.5% local, 32.4% state, and 11.0% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 40/100, ranked #351 of 763 in Illinois against a state average of 38, in line with the typical spread seen across the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 4 schools offering Advanced Placement (3 AP courses district-wide), a 115:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 21.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 90.8% White, 3.3% Hispanic or Latino, 1.5% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Sangamon Valley Primary School, with a diversity index of 23.7/100.
Its largest campus is Sangamon Valley High School, enrolling 204 students (32% of the district's total enrollment).
Sangamon Valley High School accounts for 31.7% of all Sangamon Valley Cusd 9 student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Sangamon Valley Cusd 9-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. 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.
Sangamon Valley Cusd 9 student-counselor ratio is 115:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Sangamon Valley Cusd 9 chronic absenteeism rate is 21.1% — 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 Sangamon Valley Cusd 9 is typically wider than the Sangamon Valley Cusd 9-aggregate figure suggests.