Kendall County Times

Kendall County schools welcomed 29,056 students in the 2023-24 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

This is a decrease of 0.1% from the previous school year, when there were 29,073 students enrolled in the county.

Kendall County had the 10th highest enrollment numbers in the state.

Of all the students welcomed at the time, 51% identified as male, and 49% as female.

The most represented ethnicity among Kendall County students was white, making up about 50.1% of all the students.

Within Kendall County, Oswego High School had the highest enrollment in the school year, welcoming 2,824 students.

As of the 2023-24 school year, Illinois public schools enrolled approximately 1.85 million students across 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. Between the 2019–20 and 2022–23 school years, Illinois public school enrollment declined from approximately 1.98 million to 1.85 million students, a decrease of about 127,000 students or 6.4%. This decline is significantly higher than the typical annual decreases of 0.5% to 1.5% observed in the preceding years, reflecting broader demographic shifts within the state.

School	City	Enrollment
Autumn Creek Elementary School	Yorkville	689
Aux Sable Middle School	Joliet	827
Boulder Hill Elementary School	Montgomery	703
Bristol Bay Elementary School	Yorkville	575
Bristol Grade School	Bristol	229
Centennial Elementary School	Plano	353
Charles Reed Elementary School	Plainfield	633
Churchill Elementary School	Oswego	427
Circle Center Grade School	Yorkville	504
Emily G. Johns School	Plano	495
Fox Chase Elementary School	Oswego	590
Grande Park Elementary School	Plainfield	610
Grande Reserve Elementary School	Yorkville	660
Hunt Club Elementary School	Oswego	621
Jones Elementary School	Joliet	560
Lakewood Creek Elementary School	Montgomery	660
Lisbon Grade School	Newark	125
Long Beach Elementary School	Montgomery	499
Millbrook Junior High School	Newark	106
Murphy Junior High School	Plainfield	727
Newark Community High School	Newark	175
Newark Elementary School	Newark	105
Old Post Elementary School	Oswego	443
Oswego East High School	Oswego	2,723
Oswego High School	Oswego	2,824
P.H. Miller Elementary School	Plano	449
Plainfield South High School	Plainfield	2,290
Plank Junior High School	Oswego	757
Plano High School	Plano	784
Plano Middle School	Plano	338
Prairie Point Elementary School	Oswego	419
Southbury Elementary School	Oswego	572
Thomas Jefferson Elementary School	Joliet	647
Thompson Junior High School	Oswego	738
Traughber Junior High School	Oswego	980
Yorkville Grade School	Yorkville	226
Yorkville High School	Yorkville	2,139
Yorkville Intermediate School	Yorkville	747
Yorkville Middle School	Yorkville	1,107