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Monticello Community Unit School District 25 had the highest enrollment among Piatt County districts, welcoming 1,597 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, 50.7% of them were boys, and 49.3% were girls.

Data also showed that the majority of students were white, making up 93.6% of the Monticello Community Unit School District 25's total enrollment.

Among the four districts in Piatt County, Cerro Gordo Community Unit School District 100 ranked second in enrollment numbers with 447 students, while Bement Community Unit School District 5 welcomed 284 students and ranked third in the 2021-22 school year.

Monticello Community Unit School District 25 roughly covers schools within Piatt County with its main office in Monticello.

In the previous school year, Monticello Community Unit School District 25 also had the highest number of students among Piatt 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
Monticello Community Unit School District 25	Monticello	1,597
Cerro Gordo Community Unit School District 100	Cerro Gordo	447
Bement Community Unit School District 5	Bement	284
Deland-Weldon Community Unit School District 57	De Land	178