Lake County Gazette

Lake Forest School District 67 welcomed 1,656 students in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education report.

This is a 4.3% increase over the previous school year.

Deer Path Middle School West had the largest enrollment in the district with 400 students.

Lake Forest School District 67 roughly covers schools within Lake County and has a main office in Lake Forest.

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 (%)
Deer Path Middle School East	345	-4.7%
Cherokee Elementary School	336	3.4%
Deer Path Middle School West	400	4.2%
Everett Elementary School	318	6%
Sheridan Elementary School	257	19%