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Strasburg, Illinois - 2 schools
An equity score of 31/100 ranks Stewardson-Strasburg Cud 5a #543 of 763 districts in Illinois (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $10,730 per pupil, Stewardson-Strasburg Cud 5a ranks #827 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$10,730
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Stewardson-Strasburg Cud 5a operates 2 public schools serving 399 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 1 high 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 Shelby County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $10,730 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the bottom 85 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending. See how Illinois compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 37.0% local, 45.9% state, and 17.2% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 31/100, ranked #543 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.
and 10.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 95.7% White, 1.8% Hispanic or Latino, 0.5% African American across the district's schools.
Stewardson-Strasburg Elem School accounts for 67.0% of all Stewardson-Strasburg Cud 5a student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Stewardson-Strasburg Cud 5a a distant remainder — means Stewardson-Strasburg Cud 5a-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.
Stewardson-Strasburg Cud 5a chronic absenteeism rate is 10.8% — low (typically associated with lower-than-average attendance disruption; districts in this range often have attendance interventions, robust transportation, or smaller catchments that reduce barriers)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.