Sangamon Sun

Menard County schools welcomed 1,730 students in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

This is an increase of 0.2% over the previous school year, when there were 1,726 students enrolled in the county.

Menard County had the 22nd lowest enrollment numbers in the state.

Of all the students welcomed at the time, 51.6% identified as male, and 48.4% as female.

Most of the students enrolled in the county were white, representing 94.4% of its student body.

Within Menard County, Porta High School had the highest enrollment in the school year, welcoming 424 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
Athens Junior High School	Athens	161
Athens Senior High School	Athens	306
Greenview Elementary School	Greenview	101
Greenview Junior/Senior High School	Greenview	105
Petersburg Elementary School	Petersburg	347
Porta Central School	Petersburg	286
Porta High School	Petersburg	424