Sangamon Sun

Lincoln Elementary School District 27 had the highest enrollment among Logan County districts, welcoming 1,026 students during the 2021-22 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education report.

Of all the students welcomed in the 2021-22 school year, 52.1% of them were boys, and 47.9% were girls.

Data also showed that the majority of students were white, making up 85.3% of the Lincoln Elementary School District 27's total enrollment.

Among the seven districts in Logan County, Lincoln Community High School District 404 ranked second in enrollment numbers with 828 students, while Mount Pulaski Community Unit School District 23 welcomed 505 students and ranked third in the 2021-22 school year.

Lincoln Elementary School District 27 roughly covers schools within Logan County with its main office in Lincoln.

In the previous school year, Lincoln Elementary School District 27 also had the highest number of students among Logan County districts.

In 2022, Illinois had 1,925,415 students enrolled in a total of almost 4,000 schools. There were 130,467 teachers in the public schools, or roughly one teacher for every 15 students, compared to the national average of 1:16.

K-12 enrollment has been declining in Illinois for several years, influenced by demographic changes. Between the 2019–2020 and 2020–2021 school years, public and private K-12 enrollment fell by 3% (60,900 students), a significantly larger decline than the typical 0.5% to 1.5% annual decreases seen in the state over the last five years.

District	City (main office)	Total Enrollment
Lincoln Elementary School District 27	Lincoln	1,026
Lincoln Community High School District 404	Lincoln	828
Mount Pulaski Community Unit School District 23	Mount Pulaski	505
Chester-East Lincoln Community Consolidated School District 61	Lincoln	284
West Lincoln-Broadwell Elementary School District 92	Lincoln	214
Hartsburg Emden Community Unit School District 21	Hartsburg	185
New Holland-Middletown Elementary School District 88	Middletown	84