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 824 students, enrollment at St. Joseph Elementary and Middle School has dipped since 2016 when the district had 846 students.
The district has 17-percent low-income students, which has only slightly increased from 15-percent in 2017.
The district spends $9,700 per student enrolled.
At $6,518,209 Evidence-Based Funding Resources, St. Joseph-Ogden is at 75-percent capacity to meet the $8,699,114 Adequacy Target.
The St. Joseph School District, which has a total of 53 teachers, has a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.1 at. The state average is also 18.1.
The teacher retention rate, the 3-year average percentage of teachers returning to work, is at 93-percent.
Teachers at St. Joseph see a lower salary than their state-wide counterparts.
Currently, on average, St. Joseph #169 teachers are paid $56,200 per year. The state average is $70,705.
St. Joseph is below the state average of administration to student ratio. The state average of admins to students was 157:1, and the ratio is 229:1 at St. Joseph.
Average administrator pay is close to the state average. In 2021, St. Joseph administrators made an average of $114,208 whereas the state administrators made an average of $123,165.
