Quincy Reporter

Quincy School District 172 welcomed 6,240 students in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education report.

This is a 2% decrease from the previous school year.

Quincy Senior High School had the largest enrollment in the district with 1,835 students.

Quincy School District 172 roughly covers schools within Adams County and has a main office in Quincy.

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 (%)
Quincy Junior High School	1,332	-0.7%
Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School	580	6.4%
Thomas S. Baldwin Elementary School Site 2	551	-1.6%
Quincy Senior High School	1,835	-3.4%
Colonel George Iles Elementary School	515	-4.6%
Dr. Abby Fox Rooney Elementary School	490	2.3%
Early Childhood	439	-4.1%
Sarah Atwater Denman Elementary School Site 2	497	-7.4%