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Stephenson County schools welcomed 5,725 students in the 2021-22 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

This is a decrease of 1.3% from the previous school year.

Stephenson County had the 35th highest enrollment numbers in the state.

According to the data, the student body comprised of 50.8% boys, and 49.2% girls.

Most of the students enrolled in the county were white, representing 63.4% of its student body.

Within Stephenson County, Freeport High School had the highest enrollment in the school year, welcoming 1,026 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
Black Hawk Elementary School	Freeport	274
Carl Sandburg Middle School	Freeport	390
Center Elementary School	Freeport	280
Dakota Elementary School	Dakota	387
Dakota Junior Senior High School	Dakota	384
Empire Elementary School	Freeport	337
Freeport High School	Freeport	1,026
Freeport Middle School	Freeport	533
Jones-Farrar, an International Baccalaureate World School	Freeport	317
Lena-Winslow Elementary School	Lena	392
Lena-Winslow High School	Lena	244
Lena-Winslow Junior High School	Lena	163
Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School	Freeport	270
Orangeville Elementary School	Orangeville	135
Orangeville High School	Orangeville	103
Orangeville Junior High School	Orangeville	74
Pearl City Elementary School	Pearl City	216
Pearl City High School	Pearl City	138
Pearl City Junior High School	Pearl City	62