Peoria Standard

There were 924 white students enrolled in Deer Creek-Mackinaw Community Unit School District 701 in the 2021-22 school year, 2.6% less than the previous year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education report.

Data showed that Deer Creek-Mackinaw Community Unit School District 701 welcomed 1,061 students during the 2021-22 school year. Among them, white students comprised 95.8% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the district.

Deer Creek-Mackinaw Community Unit School District 701 roughly covers schools within Tazewell County and has a main office in Mackinaw.

Among the three schools in Deer Creek-Mackinaw Community Unit School District 701, Dee-Mack Primary/Junior High recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2021-22 school year, with a total of 442 students.

In 2022, Illinois had 1,925,415 students enrolled in a total of 3,977 schools. There were 130,467 teachers in the public schools, or roughly one teacher for every 15 students, compared to the national average of 1:16.

K-12 enrollment has been declining in Illinois for many years, reflecting demographic changes. Combined public and private K-12 enrollment dropped three percent 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 5 years.

Year	Total District Enrollment	Total of White Students	White students %
2022	965	924	95.8%
2021	991	949	95.8%
2020	1,031	991	96.1%
2019	1,046	998	95.4%
2018	1,061	1,006	94.8%