How Illinois compares
- 5th largest population and personal income
- 12th highest personal income per student
- 47th in state share of tax revenue for schools per $1,000 of personal income
- 41st in state and local spending for education per $1,000 in personal income
- 10th in local share of tax revenue for schools per $1,000 in personal income
- 49th in the amount of funding that the state provides for education
- 50th (dead last) in the size of the gap in per-pupil education spending between the state’s highest and lowest poverty districts — and the gap has been widening each year