Rock Island Today

Kewanee Community Unit School District 229 welcomed 1,949 students in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education report.

This is a 2.3% increase over the previous school year.

Kewanee High School had the largest enrollment in the district with 582 students.

Kewanee Community Unit School District 229 roughly covers schools within Bureau and Henry Counties and has a main office in Kewanee.

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 (%)
Central Junior High School	245	-8.6%
Belle Alexander Elementary School	247	2.5%
Central Elementary School	334	2.1%
Irving Elementary School	215	-2.7%
Kewanee High School	582	2.1%
Neponset Grade School	137	3.8%