Chambana Sun

Champaign Community Unit School District 4 had the highest enrollment among Champaign County districts, welcoming 10,120 students during the 2021-22 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education report.

Of all the students welcomed in the 2021-22 school year, 51% of them were boys, and 49% were girls.

The most represented ethnicity among Champaign Community Unit School District 4 students was Black, accounting for 36.9% of the student population.

Among the 14 districts in Champaign County, Urbana School District 116 ranked second in enrollment numbers with 4,208 students, while Mahomet-Seymour Community Unit School District 3 welcomed 3,325 students and ranked third in the 2021-22 school year.

Champaign Community Unit School District 4 roughly covers schools within Champaign County with its main office in Champaign.

In the previous school year, Champaign Community Unit School District 4 also had the highest number of students among Champaign 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
Champaign Community Unit School District 4	Champaign	10,120
Urbana School District 116	Urbana	4,208
Mahomet-Seymour Community Unit School District 3	Mahomet	3,325
Rantoul City School District 137	Rantoul	1,686
Tolono Community Unit School District 7	Tolono	1,526
St. Joseph Community Consolidated School District 169	St. Joseph	830
Rantoul Township High School District 193	Rantoul	801
Fisher Community Unit School District 1	Fisher	578
St. Joseph-Ogden Community High School District 305	St. Joseph	434
Heritage Community Unit School District 8	Homer	371
Prairieview-Ogden Community Consolidated School District 197	Royal	257
Gifford Community Consolidated School District 188	Gifford	173
Thomasboro Community Consolidated School District 130	Thomasboro	136
Ludlow Community Consolidated School District 142	Ludlow	56