Lake County Gazette

Kildeer Countryside Community Consolidated School District 96 welcomed 3,485 students in the 2023-24 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

This is a 0.4% increase over the previous school year.

Woodlawn Middle School had the largest enrollment in the district with 657 students.

Kildeer Countryside Community Consolidated School District 96 roughly covers schools within Lake County and has a main office in Buffalo Grove.

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 (%)
Willow Grove Early Learning Center	405	1.3%
Country Meadows Elementary School	431	5.9%
Prairie Elementary School	449	-0.2%
Woodlawn Middle School	657	-1.1%
Kildeer Countryside Elementary School	452	-1.5%
Ivy Hall Elementary School	498	5.5%
Twin Groves Middle School	593	-4%