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Piatt County schools welcomed 3,008 students in the 2023-24 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

This is a decrease of 3.9% from the previous school year, when there were 3,129 students enrolled in the county.

Piatt County had the 51st lowest enrollment numbers in the state.

Of all the students welcomed at the time, 50.1% identified as male, and 49.9% as female.

Most of the students enrolled in the county were white, representing 92.5% of its student body.

Within Piatt County, Washington School had the highest enrollment in the school year, welcoming 557 students.

As of the 2023-24 school year, Illinois public schools enrolled approximately 1.85 million students across nearly 4,000 schools. There was roughly one teacher for every 15 students, slightly better than the national average of 1:16.

K-12 enrollment has been declining in Illinois for many years, reflecting the state's demographic changes. Between the 2019–20 and 2022–23 school years, Illinois public school enrollment declined from approximately 1.98 million to 1.85 million students, a decrease of about 127,000 students or 6.4%. This decline is significantly higher than the typical annual decreases of 0.5% to 1.5% observed in the preceding years, reflecting broader demographic shifts within the state.

School	City	Enrollment
Atwood-Hammond Grade School	Atwood	229
Bement Elementary School	Bement	133
Bement High School	Bement	90
Bement Middle School	Bement	65
Blue Ridge Intermediate and Junior High School	Mansfield	213
Cerro Gordo Elementary School	Cerro Gordo	239
Cerro Gordo Junior/Senior High School	Cerro Gordo	205
Deland-Weldon Elementary School	Weldon	103
Deland-Weldon High School	De Land	39
Deland-Weldon Middle School	Weldon	24
Monticello High School	Monticello	471
Monticello Middle School	Monticello	377
Washington School	Monticello	557
White Heath Elementary School	White Heath	263