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Saline County schools welcomed 3,187 students in the 2023-24 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

This is a decrease of 10.5% from the previous school year, when there were 3,559 students enrolled in the county.

Saline County had the 51st highest enrollment numbers in the state.

Of all the students welcomed at the time, 53.3% identified as male, and 46.7% as female.

Most of the students enrolled in the county were white, representing 85.4% of its student body.

Within Saline County, Eldorado Elementary School had the highest enrollment in the school year, welcoming 539 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
Carrier Mills-Stonefort Elementary School	Carrier Mills	294
Carrier Mills-Stonefort High School	Carrier Mills	107
East Side Intermediate School	Harrisburg	383
Eldorado Elementary School	Eldorado	539
Eldorado High School	Eldorado	292
Eldorado Middle School	Eldorado	256
Galatia Elementary School	Galatia	162
Galatia High School	Galatia	108
Galatia Junior High School	Galatia	78
Harrisburg High School	Harrisburg	517
School District 428 IYC-HRB	Harrisburg	48
West Side Primary School	Harrisburg	403