Peoria Standard

The deadline for paying 2024 real estate taxes in Peoria County, which are due in 2025, is approaching. Residents must pay their taxes by November 7, 2025, at 5 p.m. to avoid having their property included in the upcoming tax sale. The tax sale is scheduled for November 10, 2025, at 9 a.m. Those interested in registering as a tax buyer for the sale have until October 27, 2025.

For further details on paying real estate taxes or participating in the tax sale, residents can visit the Peoria County Treasurer's website at https://www.peoriacounty.gov/1212/Treasurer.

Peoria County schools had an average student-to-teacher ratio of 15-to-1 during the 2022-23 school year, with a total enrollment of 27,081 students and 1,844 full-time faculty members across the county's schools (https://www.isbe.net/Pages/Home.aspx). Teacher absenteeism in Peoria County was recorded at 32.3% during the same period, which is lower than the Illinois state average of 35.6% (https://www.isbe.net/Pages/Home.aspx).

Among the county's 64 schools, Dunlap High School had the highest number of white students enrolled in the 2022-23 school year with 873 students (https://www.isbe.net/Pages/Home.aspx). Richwoods High School reported the highest enrollment of multiracial students at 182 (https://www.isbe.net/Pages/Home.aspx), while Lincoln School had the largest number of Hispanic students with 218 (https://www.isbe.net/Pages/Home.aspx). Peoria High School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students at 798 during that year (https://www.isbe.net/Pages/Home.aspx).