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Lee County schools welcomed 3,719 students in the 2023-24 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

This is a decrease of 0.1% from the previous school year, when there were 3,723 students enrolled in the county.

Lee County had the 47th 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 83.1% of its student body.

Within Lee County, Dixon High School had the highest enrollment in the school year, welcoming 705 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
Amboy Central Elementary School	Amboy	270
Amboy High School	Amboy	226
Amboy Junior High School	Amboy	203
Ashton-Franklin Center Elementary School	Franklin Grove	246
Ashton-Franklin Center High School	Ashton	210
Dixon High School	Dixon	705
Jefferson Elementary School	Dixon	326
Madison School	Dixon	360
Paw Paw Elementary School	Paw Paw	94
Paw Paw Junior High School	Paw Paw	28
Reagan Middle School	Dixon	569
Steward Elementary School	Steward	56
Washington Elementary School	Dixon	426