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Worth, Illinois - 3 schools
An equity score of 48/100 ranks Worth Sd 127 #146 of 763 districts in Illinois (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $17,482 per pupil, Worth Sd 127 ranks #317 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
1,011
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$17,482
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Worth Sd 127 operates 3 public schools serving 1,011 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 1 middle, 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 Cook County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $17,482 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 39.1% local, 42.9% state, and 17.9% 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 48/100, ranked #146 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 43.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 60.0% White, 30.8% Hispanic or Latino, 4.6% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Worthwoods Elem School, with a diversity index of 55.8/100.
Its largest campus is Worth Elem School, enrolling 413 students (41% of the district's total enrollment).
Worth Elem School accounts for 40.7% of all Worth Sd 127 student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Worth Sd 127-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.
Worth Sd 127 chronic absenteeism rate is 43.3% — 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.