Aileen Mullee-DiTuri Board Member, IASB Delegate | Kirby School District 140
Aileen Mullee-DiTuri Board Member, IASB Delegate | Kirby School District 140
This is a 1.1% decrease from the previous school year.
Prairie View Middle School had the largest enrollment in the district with 595 students.
Kirby School District 140 roughly covers schools within Cook County and has a main office in Tinley Park.
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 (%) |
|---|---|---|
| John A. Bannes Elementary School | 435 | -2.2% |
| Christa McAuliffe School | 533 | -6% |
| Millennium Elementary School | 491 | -10.7% |
| Prairie View Middle School | 595 | -1.8% |
| Virgil I. Grissom Middle School | 575 | -3% |
| Fernway Park Elementary School | 437 | 22.8% |
| Helen Keller Elementary School | 393 | 3.4% |
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