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Waltonville, Illinois - 2 schools
An equity score of 53/100 ranks Waltonville Cusd 1 #70 of 763 districts in Illinois (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $15,064 per pupil, Waltonville Cusd 1 ranks #498 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
303
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$15,064
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Waltonville Cusd 1 operates 2 public schools serving 303 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 Jefferson County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $15,064 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 38.4% local, 47.3% state, and 14.3% 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 53/100, ranked #70 of 763 in Illinois against a state average of 38, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
and 10.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 96.8% White, 0.5% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Waltonville Grade School, enrolling 212 students (68% of the district's total enrollment).
Waltonville Grade School accounts for 68.4% of all Waltonville Cusd 1 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Waltonville Cusd 1 a distant remainder — means Waltonville Cusd 1-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.
Waltonville Cusd 1 chronic absenteeism rate is 10.7% — 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.