Carbondale Reporter

Marion Community Unit School District 2 welcomed 3,730 students in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education report.

This is a 0.9% increase over the previous school year.

Marion High School had the largest enrollment in the district with 1,139 students.

Marion Community Unit School District 2 roughly covers schools within Williamson County and has a main office in Marion.

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 (%)
Jefferson Elementary School	393	10.4%
Longfellow Elementary School	241	-3.2%
Marion Junior High School	721	-3%
Marion High School	1,139	0.5%
Lincoln Elementary School	490	0.8%
Washington Elementary School	487	0.4%
Adams School	259	6.6%