Lake County Gazette

Aptakisic-Tripp Community Consolidated School District 102 welcomed 2,538 students in the 2023-24 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

This is a 1.6% increase over the previous school year.

Aptakisic Junior High School had the largest enrollment in the district with 877 students.

Aptakisic-Tripp Community Consolidated School District 102 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 (%)
Meridian School	673	2.4%
Earl Pritchett School	475	3.9%
Aptakisic Junior High School	877	0.3%
Tripp School	513	0.8%