At $21,022 per pupil, Tamaroa School Dist 5 ranks #191 of 845 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Tamaroa School Dist 5 operates 1 public schools serving 91 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 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 Perry County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $21,022 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 26.8% local, 55.6% state, and 17.6% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 9.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 94.0% White, 5.0% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Tamaroa Elem School, enrolling 100 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 8.8% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (91 to 99 students), while the student-teacher ratio widened by 1.7 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $2,700,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 40.9% went to instruction, 28.5% to support services, and 23.6% to capital outlay, a capital-heavy year, consistent with active construction, renovation, or major equipment purchases. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Tamaroa Elem School accounts for 100.0% of all Tamaroa School Dist 5 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Tamaroa School Dist 5 a distant remainder — means Tamaroa School Dist 5-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: elementary. 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.
Tamaroa School Dist 5 chronic absenteeism rate is 9.0% — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 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.