Metro East Sun

Jersey County schools welcomed 2,413 students in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

This is an increase of less than 0.1% over the previous school year, when there were 2,412 students enrolled in the county.

Jersey County had the 36th lowest enrollment numbers in the state.

Of all the students welcomed at the time, 50.3% identified as male, and 49.7% as female.

Most of the students enrolled in the county were white, representing 93.3% of its student body.

Within Jersey County, Jersey Community High School had the highest enrollment in the school year, welcoming 987 students.

In 2022, Illinois had almost 2 million students enrolled in 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. Combined public and private K-12 enrollment dropped 3% 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 five years.

School	City	Enrollment
Grafton Elementary School	Grafton	174
Jersey Community High School	Jerseyville	987
Jersey Community Middle School	Jerseyville	499
Jerseyville East Elementary School	Jerseyville	384
Jerseyville West Elementary School	Jerseyville	369