Sangamon Sun

Logan County schools welcomed 3,465 students in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

This is an increase of 0.8% over the previous school year, when there were 3,438 students enrolled in the county.

Logan County had the 50th highest enrollment numbers in the state.

Of all the students welcomed at the time, 51.4% identified as male, and 48.6% as female.

Most of the students enrolled in the county were white, representing 87.8% of its student body.

Within Logan County, Lincoln Community High School had the highest enrollment in the school year, welcoming 786 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
Adams Elementary School	Lincoln	107
Central Elementary School	Lincoln	176
Chester-East Lincoln Elementary School	Lincoln	273
Emden Elementary School	Emden	89
Hartsburg-Emden Junior-Senior High School	Hartsburg	97
Lincoln Community High School	Lincoln	786
Lincoln Junior High School	Lincoln	343
Mount Pulaski Elementary School	Mount Pulaski	375
Mount Pulaski High School	Mount Pulaski	173
New Holland-Middletown Elementary School	Middletown	71
Northwest Elementary School	Lincoln	256
Olympia South Elementary School	Atlanta	328
Washington-Monroe Elementary School	Lincoln	187
West Lincoln-Broadwell Elementary School	Lincoln	204