Kane County Reporter

Central Community Unit School District 301 welcomed 4,872 students in the 2023-24 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

This is a 1.6% increase over the previous school year.

Central High School had the largest enrollment in the district with 1,432 students.

Central Community Unit School District 301 roughly covers schools within Kane County and has a main office in Burlington.

In 2022, Illinois had 1,925,415 students enrolled in a total of 3,977 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 many years, reflecting demographic changes. Combined public and private K-12 enrollment dropped three percent between the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 school year (60,900 students), far more than the typical 0.5 percent to 1.5 percent annual enrollment declines in Illinois over the last 5 years.

School	Enrollment	Change from Previous Year (%)
Prairie Knolls Middle School	767	-2.4%
Central High School	1,432	5.8%
Central Middle School	403	-1.7%
Country Trails Elementary School	688	3.5%
Lily Lake Grade School	270	-0.4%
Howard B. Thomas Grade School	639	7%
Prairie View Grade School	673	-5.5%