Southern Illinois News

Union County schools welcomed 2,456 students in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

This is a decrease of 2.7% from the previous school year, when there were 2,524 students enrolled in the county.

Union County had the 38th lowest enrollment numbers in the state.

Of all the students welcomed at the time, 50.5% identified as female, and 49.5% as male.

Most of the students enrolled in the county were white, representing 87.4% of its student body.

Within Union County, Anna-Jonesboro High School had the highest enrollment in the school year, welcoming 470 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
Anna Junior High School	Anna	235
Anna-Jonesboro High School	Anna	470
Cobden Elementary School	Cobden	207
Cobden High School	Cobden	159
Cobden Junior High School	Cobden	93
Davie Elementary School	Anna	112
Dongola Elementary School	Dongola	122
Dongola High School	Dongola	55
Dongola Junior High School	Dongola	51
Jonesboro Elementary School	Jonesboro	330
Lick Creek Elementary School	Buncombe	138
Lincoln Elementary School	Anna	206
Shawnee Elementary School	Wolf Lake	149
Shawnee High School	Wolf Lake	66
Shawnee Junior High School	Wolf Lake	63