Metro East Sun

There were 236 white students enrolled in Belle Valley School District 119 in the 2021-22 school year, 10.3% less than the previous year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education report.

Data showed that Belle Valley School District 119 welcomed 1,044 students during the 2021-22 school year. Among them, white students comprised 24.1% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the district.

Belle Valley School District 119 roughly covers schools within St. Clair County and has a main office in Belleville.

Belle Valley School is the only one school in the Belle Valley School District 119 that recorded enrollment of white students in the 2021-22 school year, with a total of 236 students.

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 2019-20 and 2020–21 school years (60,900 students), far more than the typical 0.5% to 1.5% annual enrollment declines in Illinois over the last 5 years.

Year	Total District Enrollment	Total of White Students	White students %
2022	980	236	24.1%
2021	1,100	263	23.9%
2020	1,053	290	27.5%
2019	1,049	286	27.3%
2018	1,044	290	27.8%