Kankakee Times

Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School had the highest enrollment among Kankakee County schools, welcoming 1,883 students during the 2021-22 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education report.

Out of all the students welcomed in the 2021-22 school year, 52.3% of them were boys, and 47.7% were girls.

Data also showed that most of the students were white, representing 68.1% of the student body at Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School.

Among the 35 schools in Kankakee County, Kankakee High School ranked second in enrollment with 1,513 students, while Liberty Intermediate School welcomed 732 students to be ranked third in the 2021-22 school year.

Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School is a part of Bradley-Bourbonnais Consolidated High School District 307, which generally encompasses schools within Kankakee County with its main office in Bradley.

In the previous school year, Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School had the highest number of students among Kankakee County schools.

In the 2021-22 school year, Illinois had roughly 1.9 million students enrolled across approximately schools. There were more than 130,000 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 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 5 years.

School name	City	Total Enrolment
Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School	Bradley	1,883
Kankakee High School	Kankakee	1,513
Liberty Intermediate School	Bourbonnais	732
Manteno Elementary School	Manteno	705
Kankakee Junior High School	Kankakee	627
Manteno High School	Manteno	601
Bradley East Elementary School	Bradley	534
Manteno Middle School	Manteno	533
Limestone Middle School	Kankakee	508
Bourbonnais Upper Grade Center	Bourbonnais	504
John Kennedy Middle Grade School	Kankakee	498
Herscher High School	Herscher	494
Lincoln Cltrl Center-Montessori Elementary School	Kankakee	484
Alan B. Shepard Elementary School	Bourbonnais	456
Bradley Central Middle School	Bradley	440
St. George Elementary School	Bourbonnais	393
King Middle Grade School	Kankakee	371
Taft Primary School	Kankakee	368
Bradley West Elementary School	Bradley	366
Herscher Intermediate School	Herscher	351
Momence Junior High School	Momence	333
Proegler School	Kankakee	329
Noel Levasseur Elementary School	Bourbonnais	321
Bonfield Grade School	Bonfield	320
Momence High School	Momence	304
Je-Neir Elementary School	Momence	299
Grant Park Elementary School	Grant Park	297
St. Anne Elementary School	St. Anne	286
Steuben Elementary School	Kankakee	286
Mark Twain Primary School	Kankakee	272
Shabbona Elementary School	Bourbonnais	268
Edison Primary School	Kankakee	184
St. Anne Community High School	St. Anne	180
Lorenzo R. Smith Elementary School	Hopkins Park	175
Grant Park High School	Grant Park	135