Illinois Valley Times

LaSalle County schools welcomed 14,390 students in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

This is a decrease of 0.5% from the previous school year, when there were 14,463 students enrolled in the county.

LaSalle County had the 20th highest enrollment numbers in the state.

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

Most of the students enrolled in the county were white, representing 71.3% of its student body.

Within LaSalle County, Ottawa Township High School had the highest enrollment in the school year, welcoming 1,225 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
Blackstone Elementary School	Mendota	220
Centennial Elementary School	Streator	466
Central Intermediate School	Ottawa	344
Deer Park C.C. Elementary School	Ottawa	51
Dimmick Community Consolidated School District 175	LaSalle	152
Earlville Early Learning Center	Earlville	37
Earlville Elementary School	Earlville	241
Earlville Junior/Senior High School	Earlville	96
Grand Ridge School	Grand Ridge	191
Harding Grade School	Earlville	136
Jefferson Elementary School	Ottawa	248
Kimes Elementary School	Streator	447
La Salle-Peru Township High School	LaSalle	1,177
Leland Elementary School	Leland	166
Leland High School	Leland	61
Lincoln Elementary School	Mendota	304
Lincoln Elementary School	Ottawa	412
Lincoln Elementary School	Oglesby	337
Lincoln Junior High School	LaSalle	247
Lostant Elementary School	Lostant	66
Marseilles Elementary School	Marseilles	513
McKinley Elementary School	Ottawa	359
Mendota Township High School	Mendota	484
Milton Pope Elementary School	Marseilles	190
Northbrook School	Mendota	497
Northlawn Junior High School	Streator	602
Northview Elementary School	Peru	581
Northwest Elementary School	LaSalle	620
Ottawa Township High School	Ottawa	1,225
Parkside Middle School	Peru	361
Ransom Grade School	Ransom	95
Rutland Elementary School	Ottawa	60
Seneca Elementary School South Campus	Seneca	197
Seneca Grade School North Campus	Seneca	288
Seneca High School	Seneca	383
Serena High School	Serena	155
Serena Middle School	Serena	183
Shepherd Middle School	Ottawa	376
Sheridan Elementary School	Sheridan	154
Streator Township High School	Streator	803
Tonica Grade School	Tonica	109
Wallace Elementary School	Ottawa	410
Waltham Elementary School	Utica	216
Washington Elementary School	Oglesby	130