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South Holland, Illinois - 3 schools
An equity score of 45/100 ranks Thornton Twp Hsd 205 #218 of 763 districts in Illinois (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $21,928 per pupil, Thornton Twp Hsd 205 ranks #119 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
4,681
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$21,928
Per-Pupil Spending
High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Thornton Twp Hsd 205 operates 3 public schools serving 4,681 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 3 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 Cook County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $21,928 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending. See how Illinois compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 56.3% local, 35.7% state, and 8.0% 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 45/100, ranked #218 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 3 of 3 schools offering Advanced Placement (27 AP courses district-wide), a 231.4:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 92.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 79.0% African American, 16.8% Hispanic or Latino, 1.9% White across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Thornton Township High School, with a diversity index of 48.2/100.
Its largest campus is Thornwood High School, enrolling 1,843 students (41% of the district's total enrollment).
Thornwood High School accounts for 39.4% of all Thornton Twp Hsd 205 student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Thornton Twp Hsd 205-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.
Thornton Twp Hsd 205 student-counselor ratio is 231:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Thornton Twp Hsd 205 chronic absenteeism rate is 92.3% — 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.