Palatine Community Consolidated School District 15 welcomed 11,249 students in the 2024-25 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
This represents a 1.3% increase over the previous school year.
Plum Grove Junior High School had the largest enrollment in the district with 1,113 students.
Palatine Community Consolidated School District 15 roughly covers schools within Cook County and has a main office in Palatine.
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 (%) |
|---|---|---|
| Carl Sandburg Junior High School | 466 | 5.2% |
| Plum Grove Junior High School | 1,113 | 33.5% |
| Pleasant Hill Elementary School | 403 | -20.5% |
| Kimball Hill Elementary School | 500 | -8.8% |
| Lake Louise Elementary School | 468 | -14.3% |
| Lincoln Elementary School | 673 | 7% |
| Virginia Lake Elementary School | 574 | -3.2% |
| Jane Addams Elementary School | 571 | -0.3% |
| Gray M. Sanborn Elementary School | 584 | 11.5% |
| Winston Campus Elementary School | 227 | -42.1% |
| Willow Bend Elementary School | 449 | -27.1% |
| Hunting Ridge Elementary School | 595 | -13.6% |
| Marion Jordan Elementary School | 470 | -5.2% |
| Central Road Elementary School | 519 | 6.4% |
| Walter R. Sundling Junior High School | 662 | 9.2% |
| Frank C. Whiteley Elementary School | 608 | 15.4% |
| Stuart R. Paddock School | 471 | -24.9% |
| Winston Campus Junior High School | 853 | 44.3% |
Information in this article was obtained from the Illinois State Board of Education. The source data can be found here.
