Peoria Standard

Tazewell County schools welcomed 18,342 students in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

This is a decrease of 0.6% from the previous school year, when there were 18,461 students enrolled in the county.

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

Of all the students welcomed at the time, 51.6% identified as male, and 48.4% as female.

Most of the students enrolled in the county were white, representing 88.5% of its student body.

Within Tazewell County, Pekin Community High School had the highest enrollment in the school year, welcoming 1,766 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	161
Beverly Manor Elementary School	Washington	336
Broadmoor Junior High School	Pekin	352
C.B. Smith Elementary School	Pekin	281
Central Intermediate School	Washington	739
Central Junior High School	East Peoria	461
Central Primary School	Washington	534
Dee-Mack High School	Mackinaw	271
Dee-Mack Intermediate School	Deer Creek	206
Dee-Mack Primary/Junior High	Mackinaw	465
Delavan Elementary School	Delavan	221
Delavan High School	Delavan	123
Delavan Junior High School	Delavan	68
Dirksen Primary School	Pekin	173
Don D. Shute Elementary School	East Peoria	164
East Peoria High School	East Peoria	935
Edison Junior High School	Pekin	308
Glendale Elementary School	East Peoria	241
Grundy Elementary School	Morton	415
J.L. Hensey Elementary School	Washington	260
Jefferson Elementary School	Pekin	294
Jefferson Elementary School	Morton	365
L.E. Starke Elementary School	Pekin	154
Lasalle Elementary School	Creve Coeur	250
Lettie Brown Elementary School	Morton	360
Lincoln Elementary School	Morton	525
Lincoln Elementary School	East Peoria	137
Lincoln Grade School	Washington	473
Marquette Elementary School	Marquette Heights	211
Midwest Central Middle School	Green Valley	177
Morton High School	Morton	1,050
Morton Junior High School	Morton	480
Olympia West Elementary School	Minier	250
P.L. Bolin Elementary School	East Peoria	123
Parkview Junior High School	Creve Coeur	222
Pekin Community High School	Pekin	1,766
Rankin Elementary School	Pekin	212
Robein Elementary School	East Peoria	155
Scott Altman Primary School	Pekin	164
South Pekin Elementary School	South Pekin	178
Spring Lake Elementary School	Manito	39
Tremont Elementary School	Tremont	296
Tremont High School	Tremont	306
Tremont Middle School	Tremont	304
Washington Community High School	Washington	1,451
Washington Intermediate School	Pekin	388
Washington Middle School	Washington	353
Willow Elementary School	Pekin	232
Wilson Intermediate School	Pekin	566
Woodrow Wilson Elementary School	East Peoria	147