Kankakee Times

Kankakee County schools welcomed 15,776 students in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

This is a decrease of 1.5% from the previous school year, when there were 16,021 students enrolled in the county.

Kankakee County had the 18th highest enrollment numbers in the state.

Of all the students welcomed at the time, 51.2% identified as male, and 48.8% as female.

The most represented ethnicity among Kankakee County students was white, making up about 54.3% of all the students.

Within Kankakee County, Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School had the highest enrollment in the school year, welcoming 1,854 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
Alan B. Shepard Elementary School	Bourbonnais	465
Bonfield Grade School	Bonfield	313
Bourbonnais Upper Grade Center	Bourbonnais	497
Bradley Central Middle School	Bradley	402
Bradley East Elementary School	Bradley	525
Bradley West Elementary School	Bradley	360
Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School	Bradley	1,854
Edison Primary School	Kankakee	189
Grant Park Elementary School	Grant Park	303
Grant Park High School	Grant Park	147
Herscher High School	Herscher	477
Herscher Intermediate School	Herscher	370
Je-Neir Elementary School	Momence	325
John Kennedy Middle Grade School	Kankakee	544
Kankakee High School	Kankakee	1,483
Kankakee Junior High School	Kankakee	560
King Middle Grade School	Kankakee	344
Liberty Intermediate School	Bourbonnais	718
Limestone Middle School	Kankakee	496
Lincoln Cltrl Center-Montessori Elementary School	Kankakee	429
Lorenzo R. Smith Elementary School	Hopkins Park	154
Manteno Elementary School	Manteno	697
Manteno High School	Manteno	579
Manteno Middle School	Manteno	544
Mark Twain Primary School	Kankakee	277
Momence High School	Momence	324
Momence Junior High School	Momence	339
Noel Levasseur Elementary School	Bourbonnais	343
Shabbona Elementary School	Bourbonnais	264
St. Anne Community High School	St. Anne	178
St. Anne Elementary School	St. Anne	277
St. George Elementary School	Bourbonnais	386
Steuben Elementary School	Kankakee	258
Taft Primary School	Kankakee	355