The 2021 Illinois Report Card, an annual report released by the Illinois State Board of Education, backed away from giving each district a designation this fall after an unusual 2020-2021 school year due to COVID-19.
The report, though, continues to break down each district’s finances, expenditures per student, teacher retention, attendance, enrollment, and salaries in an attempt to help constituents gauge the district’s progress.
With 911 students, enrollment at Oakwood has dipped since 2019 when the district had 993 students.
The district has 45.1-percent low-income students, which is down from 43-percent in 2020.
The district spends $9,900 per student enrolled.
At $7,703,692 Evidence-Based Funding Resources, Oakwood is at 95-percent capacity to meet the $11,671,028 Adequacy Target.
The Oakwood School District, which has a total of 61 teachers, has a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.1. The state average is also 18.1.
The teacher retention rate, the 3-year average percentage of teachers returning to work, is at 88-percent.
Teachers at Oakwood see a lower salary than their state-wide counterparts.
Currently, on average, Oakwood teachers are paid $42,761 per year. The state average is $70,705.
Oakwood is above the state average of administration to student ratio. The state average of admins to students was 157:1, and the ratio is 154:1 at Oakwood.
Average administrator pay is below the state average. In 2021, Oakwood made an average of $81,739 whereas the state administrators made an average of $114,208.
