Rock Island Today

Moline-Coal Valley School District 40 had the highest enrollment among Rock Island County districts, welcoming 7,123 students during the 2021-22 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education report.

Of all the students welcomed in the 2021-22 school year, 50.1% of them were boys, and 49.9% were girls.

The most represented ethnicity among Moline-Coal Valley School District 40 students was white, accounting for 47.9% of the student population.

Among the 10 districts in Rock Island County, Rock Island School District 41 ranked second in enrollment numbers with 6,096 students, while East Moline School District 37 welcomed 2,527 students and ranked third in the 2021-22 school year.

Moline-Coal Valley School District 40 roughly covers schools within Rock Island County with its main office in Moline.

In the previous school year, Moline-Coal Valley School District 40 also had the highest number of students among Rock Island County districts.

In 2022, Illinois had 1,925,415 students enrolled in a total of almost 4,000 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 several years, influenced by demographic changes. Between the 2019–2020 and 2020–2021 school years, public and private K-12 enrollment fell by 3% (60,900 students), a significantly larger decline than the typical 0.5% to 1.5% annual decreases seen in the state over the last five years.

District	City (main office)	Total Enrollment
Moline-Coal Valley School District 40	Moline	7,123
Rock Island School District 41	Rock Island	6,096
East Moline School District 37	East Moline	2,527
United Township High School District 30	East Moline	1,743
Sherrard Community Unit School District 200	Sherrard	1,351
Riverdale Community Unit School District 100	Port Byron	1,087
Rockridge Community Unit School District 300	Taylor Ridge	1,036
Silvis School District 34	East Moline	637
Carbon Cliff-Barstow School District 36	Silvis	283
Hampton School District 29	Hampton	225