An equity score of 40/100 ranks Wauconda Cusd 118 #346 of 763 districts in Illinois (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $18,618 per pupil, Wauconda Cusd 118 ranks #235 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
4,387
Total Enrollment
6
Schools
$18,618
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Wauconda Cusd 118 operates 6 public schools serving 4,387 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 combined, 2 middle, 1 high, 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 Lake County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $18,618 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 58.8% local, 35.0% state, and 6.2% 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 40/100, ranked #346 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 1 of 6 schools offering Advanced Placement (14 AP courses district-wide), a 456.9:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 23.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 58.0% White, 33.5% Hispanic or Latino, 2.9% Asian across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Matthews Middle School, with a diversity index of 57.2/100.
Its largest campus is Wauconda High School, enrolling 1,452 students (35% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Wauconda Grade School, at 421 students, a 3x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Wauconda High School accounts for 33.1% of all Wauconda Cusd 118 student enrollment
That concentration means Wauconda Cusd 118-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.
Wauconda Cusd 118 school enrollment varies 3.4× across entities
Wauconda Cusd 118 school enrollment ranges from 421 students (lowest) to 1,452 students (highest), a spread of 1,031 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Wauconda Cusd 118 student-counselor ratio is 457:1: well above typical (strongly associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
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 Values this far above the benchmark warrant a closer look at the underlying sub-units rather than treating the aggregate as representative.
Wauconda Cusd 118 chronic absenteeism rate is 23.0%: slightly below the ~28 national average, aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
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 Sitting just under the national figure still leaves meaningful room for sub-unit variation that the aggregate number hides. Variation between sub-units within Wauconda Cusd 118 is typically wider than the Wauconda Cusd 118-aggregate figure suggests.