Regular local school district · Shelby County
Cowden-Herrick CUSD 3A, IL: schools, enrollment and spending
Cowden-Herrick CUSD 3A runs 2 public schools with 343 students in grades PK to 12. Its ratio of 10.7 students per teacher is 3.0 lower than the Illinois figure of 13.7.
At a glance
- Schools
- 2
- Students
- 343
- Teachers (FTE)
- 32
- Students per teacher
- 10.7
- IL: 13.7 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 633 County Highway 22, Cowden, IL 62422
- Phone
- (217)783-2126
- County
- Shelby County
- Locale
- Rural: Distant
- Grades offered
- PK to 12
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 1700176
- State district ID
- IL-11-087-003A-26
- Total staff (FTE)
- 65
- School counselors (FTE)
- 1.0About 343 students per counselor.
- School administrators (FTE)
- 2.0
Students per teacher compared
This district10.7
Illinois13.7
United States15.3
2020 finance data
From the F-33 School District Finance Survey for fiscal year 2020, in nominal dollars. Enrollment used for per-pupil figures is the finance survey count (318), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $6.5 million
- Federal revenue
- $665,000
- State revenue
- $4.3 million
- Local revenue
- $1.6 million
- Total spending
- $6.2 million
- Spending per pupil
- $19,396
- Salaries
- $2.3 million37.2% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $1.4 million
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 10.2%
- State: 65.8%
- Local: 24.1%
Illinois overall
- Federal: 7.7%
- State: 39.1%
- Local: 53.2%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$19,396
Illinois$20,743
United States$16,826
Schools in Cowden-Herrick CUSD 3A
By level: 1 high, 1 elementary. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Cowden-Herrick Grade SchoolCEP school | Elementary | K to 5 | 175 | 11.7 |
| Cowden-Herrick Junior/Senior High SchoolCEP school | High | 6 to 12 | 168 | 9.9 |
Nearby and related
Other districts in Shelby County
- Shelbyville CUSD 4 1,248 students
- Stewardson-Strasburg CUD 5A School District 433 students
- Windsor CUSD 1 359 students
More in Illinois
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Finance figures are 2020 finance data in nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.