Kendall County Times

Oswego Community Unit School District 308 had the highest enrollment among Kendall County districts, welcoming 16,873 students during the 2021-22 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education report.

Of all the students welcomed in the 2021-22 school year, 51.6% of them were boys, and 48.4% were girls.

Data also showed that the majority of students were white, making up 51.4% of the Oswego Community Unit School District 308's total enrollment.

Among the six districts in Kendall County, Yorkville Community Unit School District 115 ranked second in enrollment numbers with 6,596 students, while Plano Community Unit School District 88 welcomed 2,351 students and ranked third in the 2021-22 school year.

Oswego Community Unit School District 308 roughly covers schools within Kendall County with its main office in Oswego.

In the previous school year, Oswego Community Unit School District 308 also had the highest number of students among Kendall County districts.

In 2022, Illinois had 1,925,415 students enrolled in a total of almost 4,000 schools. There were 130,467 teachers in the public schools, or roughly one teacher for every 15 students, compared to the national average of 1:16.

K-12 enrollment has been declining in Illinois for several years, influenced by demographic changes. Between the 2019–2020 and 2020–2021 school years, public and private K-12 enrollment fell by 3% (60,900 students), a significantly larger decline than the typical 0.5% to 1.5% annual decreases seen in the state over the last five years.

District	City (main office)	Total Enrollment
Oswego Community Unit School District 308	Oswego	16,873
Yorkville Community Unit School District 115	Yorkville	6,596
Plano Community Unit School District 88	Plano	2,351
Newark Community Consolidated School District 66	Newark	226
Newark Community High School District 18	Newark	165
Lisbon Community Consolidated School District 90	Newark	106