Rock Island Today

Mercer County schools welcomed 1,874 students in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

This is a decrease of 4.2% from the previous school year, when there were 1,956 students enrolled in the county.

Mercer County had the 25th lowest enrollment numbers in the state.

Of all the students welcomed at the time, 50.7% identified as male, and 49.3% as female.

Most of the students enrolled in the county were white, representing 91.6% of its student body.

Within Mercer County, Mercer County High School had the highest enrollment in the school year, welcoming 382 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
Apollo Elementary School	Aledo	334
Matherville Intermediate School	Matherville	189
Mercer County High School	Aledo	382
Mercer County Junior High School	Joy	292
New Boston Elementary School	New Boston	171
Sherrard Elementary School	Sherrard	235
Winola Elementary School	Viola	271