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Carbondale, Illinois - 1 schools
An equity score of 42/100 ranks Unity Point Ccsd 140 #303 of 763 districts in Illinois (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $12,033 per pupil, Unity Point Ccsd 140 ranks #774 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Unity Point Ccsd 140 operates 1 public schools serving 637 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 Jackson County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $12,033 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 27.4% local, 45.2% state, and 27.4% 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 42/100, ranked #303 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 14.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 55.2% White, 14.5% Hispanic or Latino, 14.4% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Unity Point Elem School, enrolling 620 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Unity Point Elem School accounts for 97.3% of all Unity Point Ccsd 140 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Unity Point Ccsd 140 a distant remainder — means Unity Point Ccsd 140-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.
Unity Point Ccsd 140 chronic absenteeism rate is 14.7% — 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.