DeKalb Times

DeKalb County schools welcomed 16,094 students in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

This is a decrease of 0.4% from the previous school year, when there were 16,154 students enrolled in the county.

DeKalb County had the 17th highest enrollment numbers in the state.

Of all the students welcomed at the time, 51.4% identified as male, and 48.6% as female.

Most of the students enrolled in the county were white, representing 60.7% of its student body.

Within DeKalb County, Dekalb High School had the highest enrollment in the school year, welcoming 1,954 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
Clinton Rosette Middle School	DeKalb	599
Cortland Elementary School	Cortland	517
Dekalb High School	DeKalb	1,954
Founders Elementary School	DeKalb	552
Genoa Elementary School	Genoa	338
Genoa-Kingston High School	Genoa	504
Genoa-Kingston Middle School	Genoa	351
Gwendolyn Brooks Elementary School	DeKalb	340
Herman E. Dummer School	Sandwich	250
Hiawatha Elementary School Prek-5	Kirkland	205
Hiawatha Junior/Senior High School	Kirkland	207
Hinckley-Big Rock Elementary School	Hinckley	334
Hinckley-Big Rock Elementary School	Hinckley	334
Hinckley-Big Rock High School	Hinckley	205
Huntley Middle School	DeKalb	922
Indian Creek Elementary School	Shabbona	249
Indian Creek High School	Shabbona	251
Indian Creek Middle School	Waterman	203
James R. Wood Elementary School	Somonauk	279
Jefferson Elementary School	DeKalb	317
Kingston Elementary School	Kingston	338
Lincoln Elementary School	DeKalb	290
Littlejohn Elementary School	DeKalb	352
Lynn G. Haskin Elementary School	Sandwich	261
Malta Elementary School	Malta	283
North Elementary School	Sycamore	255
North Grove Elementary School	Sycamore	478
Prairie View Elementary School	Sandwich	181
Sandwich Community High School	Sandwich	547
Sandwich Middle School	Sandwich	433
Somonauk High School	Somonauk	234
Somonauk Middle School	Somonauk	231
South Prairie Elementary School	Sycamore	289
Southeast Elementary School	Sycamore	300
Sycamore High School	Sycamore	1,154
Sycamore Middle School	Sycamore	815
Tyler Elementary School	DeKalb	308
W.W. Woodbury Elementary School	Sandwich	186
West Elementary School	Sycamore	248