East Central Reporter

Crawford County schools welcomed 2,681 students in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

This is a decrease of 2.3% from the previous school year, when there were 2,744 students enrolled in the county.

Crawford County had the 43rd 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 93.2% of its student body.

Within Crawford County, Robinson High School had the highest enrollment in the school year, welcoming 444 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
Hutsonville Elementary And Junior High School	Hutsonville	205
Hutsonville High School	Hutsonville	92
Lincoln Elementary School	Robinson	331
Nuttall Middle School	Robinson	328
Oblong Elementary School	Oblong	380
Oblong High School	Oblong	170
Palestine Grade School	Palestine	234
Palestine High School	Palestine	96
Robinson High School	Robinson	444
Washington Elementary School	Robinson	401