Kendall County Times

Oswego Community Unit School District 308 welcomed 16,797 students in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education report.

This is a 0.5% decrease from the previous school year.

Oswego High School had the largest enrollment in the district with 2,866 students.

Oswego Community Unit School District 308 roughly covers schools within Will and Kendall Counties and has a main office in Oswego.

In 2022, Illinois had 1,925,415 students enrolled in a total of 3,977 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 many years, reflecting demographic changes. Combined public and private K-12 enrollment dropped three percent between the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 school year (60,900 students), far more than the typical 0.5 percent to 1.5 percent annual enrollment declines in Illinois over the last 5 years.

School	Enrollment	Change from Previous Year (%)
Wolf's Crossing Elementary School	489	19.3%
Lakewood Creek Elementary School	636	6.7%
Prairie Point Elementary School	436	3.8%
Oswego East High School	2,752	-3%
Hunt Club Elementary School	642	0.8%
Old Post Elementary School	460	-0.2%
The Wheatlands Elementary School	524	0.6%
Traughber Junior High School	1,043	1.9%
Grande Park Elementary School	579	2.5%
Oswego High School	2,866	0.4%
Thompson Junior High School	752	-8.8%
Wolf's Crossing Elementary School	489	19.3%
Long Beach Elementary School	498	18.6%
Bednarcik Junior High School	551	-4.5%
Homestead Elementary School	483	-2.6%
Murphy Junior High School	743	-4.4%
Churchill Elementary School	438	-4.6%
Fox Chase Elementary School	586	-0.8%
Plank Junior High School	759	1.5%
Boulder Hill Elementary School	684	6.4%
Southbury Elementary School	566	-1%
Homestead Elementary School	483	-2.6%