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Wheeling CCSD 21 School District, IL: schools, enrollment and spending
Wheeling CCSD 21 School District runs 13 public schools with 6,298 students in grades PK to 8. Its ratio of 12.1 students per teacher is 1.6 lower than the Illinois figure of 13.7.Listed in NCES data as "Wheeling CCSD 21".
At a glance
- Schools
- 13
- Students
- 6,298
- Teachers (FTE)
- 520
- Students per teacher
- 12.1
- IL: 13.7 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 959 W Dundee Rd, Wheeling, IL 60090
- Phone
- (847)537-8270
- County
- Cook County
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- Grades offered
- PK to 8
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 1742210
- State district ID
- IL-05-016-0210-04
- Total staff (FTE)
- 899
- School counselors (FTE)
- 0.0
- School administrators (FTE)
- 26.0
Students per teacher compared
This district12.1
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 (6,054), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $151.8 million
- Federal revenue
- $10.2 million
- State revenue
- $42.0 million
- Local revenue
- $99.6 million
- Total spending
- $146.5 million
- Spending per pupil
- $24,193
- Salaries
- $69.3 million47.3% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $88.5 million
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 6.7%
- State: 27.7%
- Local: 65.6%
Illinois overall
- Federal: 7.7%
- State: 39.1%
- Local: 53.2%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$24,193
Illinois$20,743
United States$16,826
Schools in Wheeling CCSD 21 School District
By level: 3 middle, 9 elementary, 1 prekindergarten. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Booth Tarkington Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 540 | 14.2 |
| Cooper Middle SchoolCEP school | Middle | 6 to 8 | 732 | 13.1 |
| Edgar A Poe Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 317 | 9.3 |
| Eugene Field Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 613 | 16.1 |
| Henry W Longfellow Elementary School | Elementary | K to 5 | 510 | 14.6 |
| J W Riley Elementary School | Elementary | K to 5 | 319 | 10.0 |
| Jack London Middle SchoolCEP school | Middle | 6 to 8 | 628 | 9.8 |
| Joyce Kilmer Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | K to 5 | 590 | 13.7 |
| Mark Twain Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 524 | 12.8 |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne EC SchoolCEP school | Prekindergarten | PK | 0 | |
| Oliver W Holmes Middle SchoolCEP school | Middle | 6 to 8 | 615 | 11.0 |
| Robert Frost Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 532 | 14.4 |
| Walt Whitman Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 378 | 11.5 |
Nearby and related
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- J S Morton HSD 201 School District 7,709 students
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- Maine Township HSD 207 School District 6,272 students
- Evanston CCSD 65 School District 6,136 students
- Comm Cons SD 59 5,869 students
- Oak Park ESD 97 5,560 students
- Chsd 218 School District 5,436 students
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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.