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Carroll County schools welcomed 2,648 students in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

This is a decrease of 1% from the previous school year, when there were 2,675 students enrolled in the county.

Carroll County had the 42nd lowest enrollment numbers in the state.

Of all the students welcomed at the time, 50.7% identified as male, and 49.3% as female.

Most of the students enrolled in the county were white, representing 88.5% of its student body.

Within Carroll County, West Carroll Primary School had the highest enrollment in the school year, welcoming 414 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
Chadwick Elementary School	Milledgeville	180
Eastland Elementary School	Shannon	373
Eastland Elementary School	Shannon	373
Eastland Junior/Senior High School	Lanark	324
Eastland Junior/Senior High School	Lanark	324
Milledgeville High School	Milledgeville	188
West Carroll High School	Savanna	280
West Carroll Middle School	Mount Carroll	192
West Carroll Primary School	Savanna	414