Peoria Standard

Tazewell County schools welcomed 17,632 students in the 2023-24 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

This is a decrease of 3.9% from the previous school year, when there were 18,342 students enrolled in the county.

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

Of all the students welcomed at the time, 51.7% identified as male, and 48.3% as female.

Most of the students enrolled in the county were white, representing 88% of its student body.

Within Tazewell County, Pekin Community High School had the highest enrollment in the school year, welcoming 1,701 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
Armstrong-Oakview Elementary School	East Peoria	147
Beverly Manor Elementary School	Washington	324
Broadmoor Junior High School	Pekin	374
C.B. Smith Elementary School	Pekin	251
Central Intermediate School	Washington	592
Central Junior High School	East Peoria	422
Central Primary School	Washington	675
Dee-Mack High School	Mackinaw	285
Dee-Mack Intermediate School	Deer Creek	228
Dee-Mack Primary/Junior High	Mackinaw	441
Delavan Elementary School	Delavan	207
Delavan High School	Delavan	136
Delavan Junior High School	Delavan	59
Dirksen Primary School	Pekin	177
Don D. Shute Elementary School	East Peoria	247
East Peoria High School	East Peoria	854
Edison Junior High School	Pekin	309
Glendale Elementary School	East Peoria	170
Grundy Elementary School	Morton	437
J.L. Hensey Elementary School	Washington	250
Jefferson Elementary School	Pekin	280
Jefferson Elementary School	Morton	352
L.E. Starke Elementary School	Pekin	159
Lasalle Elementary School	Creve Coeur	270
Lettie Brown Elementary School	Morton	345
Lincoln Elementary School	Morton	514
Lincoln Elementary School	East Peoria	136
Lincoln Grade School	Washington	458
Marquette Elementary School	Marquette Heights	219
Midwest Central Middle School	Green Valley	174
Morton High School	Morton	1,068
Olympia West Elementary School	Minier	256
P.L. Bolin Elementary School	East Peoria	127
Parkview Junior High School	Creve Coeur	218
Pekin Community High School	Pekin	1,701
Rankin Elementary School	Pekin	211
Robein Elementary School	East Peoria	150
Scott Altman Primary School	Pekin	187
South Pekin Elementary School	South Pekin	185
Spring Lake Elementary School	Manito	37
Tremont Elementary School	Tremont	306
Tremont High School	Tremont	283
Tremont Middle School	Tremont	289
Washington Community High School	Washington	1,424
Washington Intermediate School	Pekin	392
Washington Middle School	Washington	353
Willow Elementary School	Pekin	208
Wilson Intermediate School	Pekin	591
Woodrow Wilson Elementary School	East Peoria	154