Chief Education Officer Jason Helfer (2023) | Illinois State Board of education
Chief Education Officer Jason Helfer (2023) | Illinois State Board of education
Data showed that Raccoon Consolidated School District 1 welcomed 253 students during the 2021-22 school year. Among them, white students comprised 92.2% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the district.
Raccoon Consolidated School District 1 roughly covers schools within Marion County and has a main office in Centralia.
Raccoon Consolidated Elementary School is the only one school in the Raccoon Consolidated School District 1 that recorded enrollment of white students in the 2021-22 school year, with a total of 212 students.
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 2019-20 and 2020–21 school years (60,900 students), far more than the typical 0.5% to 1.5% annual enrollment declines in Illinois over the last 5 years.
Year | Total District Enrollment | Total of White Students | White students % |
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2022 | 230 | 212 | 92.2% |
2021 | 220 | 208 | 94.5% |
2020 | 246 | 228 | 92.7% |
2019 | 265 | 244 | 92.1% |
2018 | 253 | 233 | 92.1% |