Kankakee Times

There were 285 white students enrolled in St. George Community Consolidated School District 258 in the 2021-22 school year, 2.9% more than the previous year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education report.

Data showed that St. George Community Consolidated School District 258 welcomed 447 students during the 2021-22 school year. Among them, white students comprised 72.5% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the district.

St. George Community Consolidated School District 258 roughly covers schools within Kankakee County and has a main office in Bourbonnais.

St. George Elementary School is the only one school in the St. George Community Consolidated School District 258 that recorded enrollment of white students in the 2021-22 school year, with a total of 285 students.

In 2022, Illinois had 1,925,415 students enrolled in a total of 3,977 schools. There were 130,467 teachers in the public schools, or roughly one teacher for every 15 students, compared to the national average of 1:16.

K-12 enrollment has been declining in Illinois for many years, reflecting demographic changes. Combined public and private K-12 enrollment dropped three percent 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 5 years.

Year	Total District Enrollment	Total of White Students	White students %
2022	393	285	72.5%
2021	385	277	71.9%
2020	420	314	74.8%
2019	430	329	76.5%
2018	447	332	74.3%