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Geneseo Community Unit School District 228 welcomed 2,471 students in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education report.

This is a 0.2% increase over the previous school year.

Geneseo High School had the largest enrollment in the district with 813 students.

Geneseo Community Unit School District 228 roughly covers schools within Henry County and has a main office in Geneseo.

In 2022, Illinois had 1,925,415 students enrolled in a total of 3,977 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 many years, reflecting demographic changes. Combined public and private K-12 enrollment dropped three percent between the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 school year (60,900 students), far more than the typical 0.5 percent to 1.5 percent annual enrollment declines in Illinois over the last 5 years.

School	Enrollment	Change from Previous Year (%)
Millikin Elementary School	367	0%
Northside Elementary School	340	3%
Geneseo High School	813	-0.7%
Southwest Elementary School	362	0.8%
Geneseo Middle School	589	-0.3%