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Lee County schools welcomed 3,723 students in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

This is a decrease of 3.2% from the previous school year, when there were 3,848 students enrolled in the county.

Lee County had the 48th highest enrollment numbers in the state.

Of all the students welcomed at the time, 50.5% identified as male, and 49.5% as female.

Most of the students enrolled in the county were white, representing 82.8% of its student body.

Within Lee County, Dixon High School had the highest enrollment in the school year, welcoming 740 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
Amboy Central Elementary School	Amboy	273
Amboy High School	Amboy	209
Amboy Junior High School	Amboy	206
Ashton-Franklin Center Elementary School	Franklin Grove	257
Ashton-Franklin Center High School	Ashton	213
Dixon High School	Dixon	740
Jefferson Elementary School	Dixon	309
Madison School	Dixon	367
Paw Paw Elementary School	Paw Paw	79
Paw Paw Junior High School	Paw Paw	34
Reagan Middle School	Dixon	544
Steward Elementary School	Steward	70
Washington Elementary School	Dixon	422