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Stephenson County schools welcomed 5,709 students in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

This is a decrease of 1.5% from the previous school year, when there were 5,796 students enrolled in the county.

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

Of all the students welcomed at the time, 50.8% identified as male, and 49.2% as female.

Most of the students enrolled in the county were white, representing 62.9% of its student body.

Within Stephenson County, Freeport High School had the highest enrollment in the school year, welcoming 992 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	303
Carl Sandburg Middle School	Freeport	390
Center Elementary School	Freeport	247
Dakota Elementary School	Dakota	390
Dakota Junior Senior High School	Dakota	361
Empire Elementary School	Freeport	319
Freeport High School	Freeport	992
Freeport Middle School	Freeport	476
German Valley Grade School	German Valley	79
Jones-Farrar, an International Baccalaureate World School	Freeport	326
Lena-Winslow Elementary School	Lena	398
Lena-Winslow High School	Lena	244
Lena-Winslow Junior High School	Lena	164
Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School	Freeport	286
Orangeville Elementary School	Orangeville	149
Orangeville High School	Orangeville	94
Orangeville Junior High School	Orangeville	74
Pearl City Elementary School	Pearl City	203
Pearl City High School	Pearl City	134
Pearl City Junior High School	Pearl City	80