South Cook News

There were 943 white students enrolled in Oak Lawn Community High School District 229 in the 2021-22 school year, 6.4% less than the previous year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education report.

Data showed that Oak Lawn Community High School District 229 welcomed 1,838 students during the 2021-22 school year. Among them, white students comprised 52.0% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the district.

Oak Lawn Community High School District 229 roughly covers schools within Cook County and has a main office in Oak Lawn.

Oak Lawn Community High School is the only one school in the Oak Lawn Community High School District 229 that recorded enrollment of white students in the 2021-22 school year, with a total of 943 students.

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 2019-20 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 5 years.

Year	Total District Enrollment	Total of White Students	White students %
2022	1,814	943	52%
2021	1,815	1,007	55.5%
2020	1,842	1,049	56.9%
2019	1,910	1,139	59.6%
2018	1,838	1,149	62.5%