Rock Island Today

Rock Island County schools welcomed 20,850 students in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

This is a decrease of 0.2% from the previous school year, when there were 20,888 students enrolled in the county.

Rock Island County had the 15th highest enrollment numbers in the state.

Of all the students welcomed at the time, 50.8% identified as male, and 49.2% as female.

The most represented ethnicity among Rock Island County students was white, making up about 48.7% of all the students.

Within Rock Island County, Moline Senior High School had the highest enrollment in the school year, welcoming 2,186 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
Andalusia Elementary School	Andalusia	233
Benjamin Franklin Elementary School	Moline	281
Bicentennial Elementary School	Coal Valley	303
Bowlesburg Elementary School	Silvis	282
Butterworth Elementary School	Moline	243
Denkmann Elementary School	Rock Island	341
Eagle Ridge School	Silvis	275
Earl H. Hanson Elementary School	Rock Island	352
Edison Junior High School	Rock Island	407
Eugene Field Elementary School	Rock Island	441
Frances Willard Elementary School	Rock Island	288
George O. Barr School	Silvis	415
George Washington Elementary School	Moline	334
Glenview Middle School	East Moline	1,124
Hamilton Elementary School	Moline	597
Hampton Elementary School	Hampton	235
Hillcrest Elementary School	East Moline	306
Illinois City Elementary School	Illinois City	64
Jane Addams Elementary School	Moline	272
John Deere Middle School	Moline	754
Lincoln-Irving Elementary School	Moline	295
Logan Elementary School	Moline	293
Longfellow Elementary School	Rock Island	234
Moline Senior High School	Moline	2,186
Northeast Junior High School	East Moline	195
Ridgewood Elementary School	Rock Island	299
Ridgewood Elementary School	East Moline	410
Riverdale Elementary School	Port Byron	502
Riverdale Middle School	Port Byron	265
Riverdale Senior High School	Port Byron	309
Rock Island Academy	Rock Island	489
Rock Island Center for Math and Science	Rock Island	473
Rock Island High School	Rock Island	1,715
Rockridge High School	Taylor Ridge	334
Rockridge Junior High School	Taylor Ridge	233
Roosevelt Elementary School	Moline	410
Sherrard High School	Sherrard	444
Sherrard Junior High School	Sherrard	217
Taylor Ridge Elementary School	Taylor Ridge	179
Thomas Jefferson Elementary School	Milan	299
United Township High School	East Moline	1,760
Washington Junior High School	Rock Island	481
Wells Elementary School	East Moline	288
Willard Elementary School	Moline	179
Woodrow Wilson Middle School	Moline	814