Galesburg Reporter

Knox County schools welcomed 6,221 students in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

This is a decrease of 0.6% from the previous school year, when there were 6,257 students enrolled in the county.

Knox County had the 31st highest enrollment numbers in the state.

Of all the students welcomed at the time, 51.2% identified as male, and 48.8% as female.

Most of the students enrolled in the county were white, representing 70.4% of its student body.

Within Knox County, Galesburg High School had the highest enrollment in the school year, welcoming 1,158 students.

In 2022, Illinois had almost 2 million students enrolled in nearly 4,000 schools. There was roughly one teacher for every 15 students, slightly better than the national average of 1:16.

K-12 enrollment has been declining in Illinois for many years, reflecting the state's demographic changes. Combined public and private K-12 enrollment dropped 3% between the 2019–20 and 2020–21 school years (60,900 students), far more than the typical 0.5% to 1.5% annual enrollment declines in Illinois over the last five years.

School	City	Enrollment
Abingdon-Avon High School	Abingdon	280
Churchill Junior High School	Galesburg	570
Galesburg High School	Galesburg	1,158
Hedding Grade School	Abingdon	366
King Elementary School	Galesburg	520
Knoxville Junior High School	Knoxville	243
Knoxville Senior High School	Knoxville	315
Lombard Middle School	Galesburg	531
Mable Woolsey Elementary School	Knoxville	406
ROWVA Elementary School	Oneida	372
ROWVA Junior/Senior High School	Oneida	244
Silas Willard Elementary School	Galesburg	429
Steele School	Galesburg	497
Williamsfield Elementary School	Williamsfield	120
Williamsfield High School	Williamsfield	93
Williamsfield Middle School	Williamsfield	77