Peoria Standard

Tazewell County schools welcomed 18,252 students in the 2021-22 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

This is an increase of 0.3% over the previous school year.

Tazewell County had the 16th highest enrollment numbers in the state.

According to the data, the student body comprised of 51.3% boys, and 48.7% girls.

Most of the students enrolled in the county were white, representing 89.2% of its student body.

Within Tazewell County, Pekin Community High School had the highest enrollment in the school year, welcoming 1,814 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
Armstrong-Oakview Elementary School	East Peoria	152
Beverly Manor Elementary School	Washington	323
Broadmoor Junior High School	Pekin	366
C.B. Smith Elementary School	Pekin	254
Central Intermediate School	Washington	799
Central Junior High School	East Peoria	467
Central Primary School	Washington	549
Dee-Mack High School	Mackinaw	288
Dee-Mack Intermediate School	Deer Creek	212
Dee-Mack Primary/Junior High	Mackinaw	465
Delavan Elementary School	Delavan	217
Delavan High School	Delavan	142
Delavan Junior High School	Delavan	74
Dirksen Primary School	Pekin	145
Don D. Shute Elementary School	East Peoria	134
East Peoria High School	East Peoria	938
Edison Junior High School	Pekin	331
Glendale Elementary School	East Peoria	215
Grundy Elementary School	Morton	391
J.L. Hensey Elementary School	Washington	270
Jefferson Elementary School	Pekin	314
Jefferson Elementary School	Morton	346
L.E. Starke Elementary School	Pekin	159
Lasalle Elementary School	Creve Coeur	264
Lettie Brown Elementary School	Morton	356
Lincoln Elementary School	Morton	506
Lincoln Elementary School	East Peoria	146
Lincoln Grade School	Washington	483
Marquette Elementary School	Marquette Heights	214
Morton High School	Morton	1,044
Morton Junior High School	Morton	485
P.L. Bolin Elementary School	East Peoria	134
Parkview Junior High School	Creve Coeur	217
Pekin Community High School	Pekin	1,814
Pekin Preschool Family Education Center	Pekin	190
Rankin Elementary School	Pekin	208
Robein Elementary School	East Peoria	147
Scott Altman Primary School	Pekin	174
South Pekin Elementary School	South Pekin	188
Spring Lake Elementary School	Manito	38
Tremont Elementary School	Tremont	306
Tremont High School	Tremont	319
Tremont Middle School	Tremont	280
Washington Community High School	Washington	1,464
Washington Intermediate School	Pekin	427
Washington Middle School	Washington	370
Willow Elementary School	Pekin	230
Wilson Intermediate School	Pekin	547
Woodrow Wilson Elementary School	East Peoria	150