Peoria Standard

Dunlap Community Unit School District 323 welcomed 4,665 students in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education report.

This is a 1.1% increase over the previous school year.

Dunlap High School had the largest enrollment in the district with 1,366 students.

Dunlap Community Unit School District 323 roughly covers schools within Peoria County and has a main office in Dunlap.

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 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 school year (60,900 students), far more than the typical 0.5 percent to 1.5 percent annual enrollment declines in Illinois over the last 5 years.

School	Enrollment	Change from Previous Year (%)
Dunlap High School	1,366	1.5%
Banner Elementary School	361	11.8%
Ridgeview Elementary School	429	-0.5%
Dunlap Middle School	543	2.8%
Wilder-Waite Elementary School	361	-5%
Dunlap Valley Middle School	562	4.3%
Dunlap Grade School	261	0.8%
Hickory Grove Elementary School	782	-3.2%