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Saline County schools welcomed 3,559 students in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

This is a decrease of 4.8% from the previous school year, when there were 3,737 students enrolled in the county.

Saline County had the 49th highest enrollment numbers in the state.

Of all the students welcomed at the time, 52.7% identified as male, and 47.3% as female.

Most of the students enrolled in the county were white, representing 86.5% of its student body.

Within Saline County, Eldorado Elementary School had the highest enrollment in the school year, welcoming 546 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
Carrier Mills-Stonefort Elementary School	Carrier Mills	326
Carrier Mills-Stonefort High School	Carrier Mills	115
East Side Intermediate School	Harrisburg	359
Eldorado Elementary School	Eldorado	546
Eldorado High School	Eldorado	306
Eldorado Middle School	Eldorado	229
Galatia Elementary School	Galatia	170
Galatia High School	Galatia	105
Galatia Junior High School	Galatia	87
Harrisburg High School	Harrisburg	535
Harrisburg Middle School	Harrisburg	320
School District 428 IYC-HRB	Harrisburg	39
West Side Primary School	Harrisburg	422