Southern Illinois News

Johnson County schools welcomed 1,714 students in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

This is an increase of 0.9% over the previous school year, when there were 1,698 students enrolled in the county.

Johnson County had the 19th lowest enrollment numbers in the state.

Of all the students welcomed at the time, 51.2% identified as male, and 48.8% as female.

Most of the students enrolled in the county were white, representing 93.9% of its student body.

Within Johnson County, Goreville Elementary School had the highest enrollment in the school year, welcoming 452 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
Buncombe Consolidated School	Buncombe	61
Cypress Elementary School	Cypress	105
Goreville Elementary School	Goreville	452
Goreville High School	Goreville	172
New Simpson Hill School District 32	Tunnel Hill	209
Vienna Elementary School District 55	Vienna	397
Vienna High School	Vienna	318