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Salt Fork Community Unit School District 512 welcomed 855 students in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education report.

This is a 0.2% decrease from the previous school year.

Salt Fork North Elementary School had the largest enrollment in the district with 264 students.

Salt Fork Community Unit School District 512 roughly covers schools within Vermilion County and has a main office in Catlin.

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 (%)
Salt Fork North Elementary School	264	-2.9%
Salt Fork South Elementary School	163	-1.2%
Salt Fork High School	243	0.8%
Salt Fork Junior High School	185	3.4%