Southern Illinois News

Alexander County schools welcomed 673 students in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

This is an increase of 9.8% over the previous school year, when there were 613 students enrolled in the county.

Alexander County had the fourth lowest enrollment numbers in the state.

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

The most represented ethnicity among Alexander County students was white, making up about 45.8% of all the students.

Within Alexander County, Egyptian Elementary School had the highest enrollment in the school year, welcoming 190 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
Cairo Elementary School	Cairo	182
Cairo Junior/Senior High School	Cairo	118
Egyptian Elementary School	Tamms	190
Egyptian Junior High School	Tamms	66
Egyptian Senior High School	Tamms	117