Kankakee Times

Kankakee County schools welcomed 15,600 students in the 2023-24 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

This is a decrease of 1.1% from the previous school year, when there were 15,776 students enrolled in the county.

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

Of all the students welcomed at the time, 50.9% identified as male, and 49.1% as female.

The most represented ethnicity among Kankakee County students was white, making up about 52.9% of all the students.

Within Kankakee County, Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School had the highest enrollment in the school year, welcoming 1,840 students.

As of the 2023-24 school year, Illinois public schools enrolled approximately 1.85 million students across 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. Between the 2019–20 and 2022–23 school years, Illinois public school enrollment declined from approximately 1.98 million to 1.85 million students, a decrease of about 127,000 students or 6.4%. This decline is significantly higher than the typical annual decreases of 0.5% to 1.5% observed in the preceding years, reflecting broader demographic shifts within the state.

School	City	Enrollment
Alan B. Shepard Elementary School	Bourbonnais	477
Bonfield Grade School	Bonfield	296
Bourbonnais Upper Grade Center	Bourbonnais	487
Bradley Central Middle School	Bradley	378
Bradley East Elementary School	Bradley	520
Bradley West Elementary School	Bradley	387
Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School	Bradley	1,840
Edison Primary School	Kankakee	202
Grant Park Elementary School	Grant Park	319
Grant Park High School	Grant Park	121
Herscher High School	Herscher	507
Herscher Intermediate School	Herscher	376
Je-Neir Elementary School	Momence	334
John Kennedy Middle Grade School	Kankakee	515
Kankakee High School	Kankakee	1,416
Kankakee Junior High School	Kankakee	504
King Middle Grade School	Kankakee	349
Liberty Intermediate School	Bourbonnais	738
Limestone Middle School	Kankakee	459
Lincoln Cltrl Center-Montessori Elementary School	Kankakee	457
Lorenzo R. Smith Elementary School	Hopkins Park	189
Manteno Elementary School	Manteno	698
Manteno High School	Manteno	549
Manteno Middle School	Manteno	528
Mark Twain Primary School	Kankakee	274
Momence High School	Momence	318
Momence Junior High School	Momence	342
Noel Levasseur Elementary School	Bourbonnais	340
Shabbona Elementary School	Bourbonnais	289
St. Anne Community High School	St. Anne	194
St. Anne Elementary School	St. Anne	248
St. George Elementary School	Bourbonnais	378
Steuben Elementary School	Kankakee	271
Taft Primary School	Kankakee	300