Lake County Gazette

Deerfield School District 109 welcomed 2,721 students in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education report.

This is a 0.7% decrease from the previous school year.

Wilmot Elementary School had the largest enrollment in the district with 476 students.

Deerfield School District 109 roughly covers schools within Lake County and has a main office in Deerfield.

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 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 school year (60,900 students), far more than the typical 0.5 percent to 1.5 percent annual enrollment declines in Illinois over the last 5 years.

School	Enrollment	Change from Previous Year (%)
Alan B. Shepard Middle School	458	-5.8%
Charles J. Caruso Middle School	442	-5.2%
Kipling Elementary School	452	2.3%
Wilmot Elementary School	476	0.6%
South Park Elementary School	441	4.8%
Walden Elementary School	452	0%