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Gallatin County schools welcomed 695 students in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

This is a decrease of 2.1% from the previous school year, when there were 710 students enrolled in the county.

Gallatin County had the seventh lowest enrollment numbers in the state.

Of all the students welcomed at the time, 50.5% identified as male, and 49.5% as female.

Most of the students enrolled in the county were white, representing 94.8% of its student body.

Within Gallatin County, Gallatin Elementary School had the highest enrollment in the school year, welcoming 287 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
Gallatin Elementary School	Junction	287
Gallatin High School	Junction	212
Gallatin Junior High School	Junction	196