Rockford Sun

Boone County schools welcomed 8,917 students in the 2021-22 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

This is a decrease of less than 0.1% from the previous school year.

Boone County had the 24th highest enrollment numbers in the state.

According to the data, the student body comprised of 51.5% boys, and 48.5% girls.

The most represented ethnicity among Boone County students was white, making up about 52.4% of all the students.

Within Boone County, Belvidere North High School had the highest enrollment in the school year, welcoming 1,391 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
Belvidere Central Middle School	Belvidere	911
Belvidere High School	Belvidere	1,237
Belvidere North High School	Belvidere	1,391
Belvidere South Middle School	Belvidere	780
Caledonia Elementary School	Caledonia	406
Capron Elementary School	Capron	159
Lincoln Elementary School	Belvidere	513
Manchester Elementary School	Poplar Grove	147
Meehan Elementary School	Belvidere	595
North Boone High School	Poplar Grove	489
North Boone Middle School	Poplar Grove	237
North Boone Upper Elementary School	Poplar Grove	239
Perry Elementary School	Belvidere	240
Poplar Grove Elementary School	Poplar Grove	247
Seth Whitman Elementary School	Belvidere	640
Washington Academy	Belvidere	686