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Carroll County schools welcomed 1,905 students in the 2023-24 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

This is a decrease of 28.1% from the previous school year, when there were 2,648 students enrolled in the county.

Carroll County had the 27th lowest enrollment numbers in the state.

Of all the students welcomed at the time, 50.2% identified as male, and 49.8% as female.

Most of the students enrolled in the county were white, representing 87.3% of its student body.

Within Carroll County, West Carroll Primary School had the highest enrollment in the school year, welcoming 408 students.

As of the 2023-24 school year, Illinois public schools enrolled approximately 1.85 million students across 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. Between the 2019–20 and 2022–23 school years, Illinois public school enrollment declined from approximately 1.98 million to 1.85 million students, a decrease of about 127,000 students or 6.4%. This decline is significantly higher than the typical annual decreases of 0.5% to 1.5% observed in the preceding years, reflecting broader demographic shifts within the state.

School	City	Enrollment
Chadwick Elementary School	Milledgeville	174
Eastland Elementary School	Shannon	361
Eastland Junior/Senior High School	Lanark	337
Milledgeville High School	Milledgeville	181
West Carroll High School	Savanna	264
West Carroll Middle School	Mount Carroll	180
West Carroll Primary School	Savanna	408