West Central Reporter

Cass County schools welcomed 2,078 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.

Cass County had the 28th lowest enrollment numbers in the state.

According to the data, the student body comprised of 51.7% boys, and 48.3% girls.

The most represented ethnicity among Cass County students was white, making up about 49.7% of all the students.

Within Cass County, Beardstown Junior/Senior High School had the highest enrollment in the school year, welcoming 807 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
A-C Central Elementary School	Chandlerville	154
A-C Central High School	Ashland	110
A-C Central Middle School	Ashland	94
Beardstown Junior/Senior High School	Beardstown	807
Gard Elementary School	Beardstown	457
Grand Avenue School	Beardstown	142
Virginia Elementary School	Virginia	178
Virginia Junior and Senior High School	Virginia	136