Central Community High School District 71 Principal Dr. Dustin Foutch (2023) | Central Community High School District 71
Central Community High School District 71 Principal Dr. Dustin Foutch (2023) | Central Community High School District 71
Of all the students welcomed in the 2021-22 school year, 50.3% of them were boys, and 49.7% were girls.
Data also showed that the majority of students were white, making up 85.8% of the Wesclin Community Unit School District 3's total enrollment.
Among the 12 districts in Clinton County, Carlyle Community Unit School District 1 ranked second in enrollment numbers with 993 students, while Central Community High School District 71 welcomed 616 students and ranked third in the 2021-22 school year.
Wesclin Community Unit School District 3 roughly covers schools within Clinton County with its main office in Trenton.
In the previous school year, Wesclin Community Unit School District 3 also had the highest number of students among Clinton County districts.
In 2022, Illinois had 1,925,415 students enrolled in a total of almost 4,000 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 several years, influenced by demographic changes. Between the 2019–2020 and 2020–2021 school years, public and private K-12 enrollment fell by 3% (60,900 students), a significantly larger decline than the typical 0.5% to 1.5% annual decreases seen in the state over the last five years.
| District | City (main office) | Total Enrollment |
|---|---|---|
| Wesclin Community Unit School District 3 | Trenton | 1,326 |
| Carlyle Community Unit School District 1 | Carlyle | 993 |
| Central Community High School District 71 | Breese | 616 |
| Breese School District 12 | Breese | 597 |
| Aviston School District 21 | Aviston | 407 |
| Germantown School District 60 | Germantown | 236 |
| St. Rose School District 14-15 | St. Rose | 186 |
| Bartelso School District 57 | Bartelso | 180 |
| Albers School District 63 | Albers | 174 |
| Willow Grove School District 46 | Centralia | 169 |
| North Wamac School District 186 | Centralia | 113 |
| Damiansville School District 62 | Damiansville | 91 |
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