Mount Vernon School District 80 Principal Mr. Ryan Swan (2023) | Mount Vernon School District 80
Mount Vernon School District 80 Principal Mr. Ryan Swan (2023) | Mount Vernon School District 80
Of all the students welcomed in the 2021-22 school year, 50.3% of them were girls, and 49.7% were boys.
The most represented ethnicity among Mount Vernon School District 80 students was white, accounting for 48.6% of the student population.
Among the 14 districts in Jefferson County, Mount Vernon Township High School District 201 ranked second in enrollment numbers with 1,164 students, while Woodlawn Unit School District 209 welcomed 492 students and ranked third in the 2021-22 school year.
Mount Vernon School District 80 roughly covers schools within Jefferson County with its main office in Mount Vernon.
In the previous school year, Mount Vernon School District 80 also had the highest number of students among Jefferson County districts.
In 2022, Illinois had 1,925,415 students enrolled in a total of almost 4,000 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 several years, influenced by demographic changes. Between the 2019–2020 and 2020–2021 school years, public and private K-12 enrollment fell by 3% (60,900 students), a significantly larger decline than the typical 0.5% to 1.5% annual decreases seen in the state over the last five years.
| District | City (main office) | Total Enrollment |
|---|---|---|
| Mount Vernon School District 80 | Mount Vernon | 1,554 |
| Mount Vernon Township High School District 201 | Mount Vernon | 1,164 |
| Woodlawn Unit School District 209 | Woodlawn | 492 |
| Bluford Unit School District 318 | Bluford | 374 |
| Rome Community Consolidated School District 2 | Dix | 366 |
| Waltonville Community Unit School District 1 | Waltonville | 292 |
| Summersville School District 79 | Mount Vernon | 280 |
| Field Community Consolidated School District 3 | Texico | 246 |
| Spring Garden Community Consolidated School District 178 | Mount Vernon | 229 |
| Bethel School District 82 | Mount Vernon | 154 |
| Opdyke-Belle Rive Community Consolidated School District 5 | Opdyke | 140 |
| Grand Prairie Community Consolidated School District 6 | Centralia | 88 |
| McClellan Community Consolidated School District 12 | Mount Vernon | 57 |
| Farrington Community Consolidated School District 99 | Bluford | 52 |
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