McHenry Times

McHenry County schools welcomed 47,744 students in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

This is an increase of 0.2% over the previous school year, when there were 47,670 students enrolled in the county.

McHenry County had the sixth highest enrollment numbers in the state.

Of all the students welcomed at the time, 51.5% identified as male, and 48.5% as female.

Most of the students enrolled in the county were white, representing 65.7% of its student body.

Within McHenry County, Huntley High School had the highest enrollment in the school year, welcoming 2,890 students.

In 2022, Illinois had almost 2 million students enrolled in nearly 4,000 schools. There was roughly one teacher for every 15 students, slightly better than the national average of 1:16.

K-12 enrollment has been declining in Illinois for many years, reflecting the state's demographic changes. Combined public and private K-12 enrollment dropped 3% 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 five years.

School	City	Enrollment
Alden-Hebron Elementary School	Hebron	235
Alden-Hebron High School	Hebron	112
Alden-Hebron Middle School	Hebron	85
Algonquin Middle School	Algonquin	428
Algonquin Road Elementary School	Fox River Grove	211
Briargate Elementary School	Cary	352
Canterbury Elementary School	Crystal Lake	439
Cary Junior High School	Cary	733
Cary-Grove Community High School	Cary	1,444
Chauncey H. Duker School	McHenry	386
Chesak Elementary School	Lake in the Hills	713
Conley Elementary School	Algonquin	551
Cotton Creek School	Island Lake	583
Coventry Elementary School	Crystal Lake	585
Creekside Middle School	Woodstock	732
Crosby Elementary School	Harvard	625
Crystal Lake Central High School	Crystal Lake	1,446
Crystal Lake South High School	Crystal Lake	1,237
Dean Street Elementary School	Woodstock	322
Deer Path Elementary School	Cary	385
Early Childhood Center	Lake in the Hills	215
Eastview Elementary School	Algonquin	414
Edgebrook Elementary School	McHenry	522
Fox River Grove Middle School	Fox River Grove	176
Glacier Ridge Elementary School	Crystal Lake	387
Greenwood Elementary School	Woodstock	287
Hannah Beardsley Middle School	Crystal Lake	830
Harrison Elementary School	Wonder Lake	391
Harry D. Jacobs High School	Algonquin	2,080
Harvard High School	Harvard	807
Harvard Junior High School	Harvard	532
Heineman Middle School	Algonquin	746
Hilltop Elementary School	McHenry	452
Huntley High School	Huntley	2,890
Husmann Elementary School	Crystal Lake	467
Indian Prairie Elementary School	Crystal Lake	480
Jefferson Elementary School	Harvard	377
Johnsburg Elementary School	Johnsburg	366
Johnsburg High School	Johnsburg	553
Johnsburg Junior High School	Johnsburg	336
Kenneth E. Neubert Elementary School	Algonquin	471
Lake In The Hills Elementary School	Lake in the Hills	463
Landmark Elementary School	McHenry	211
Leggee Elementary School	Huntley	914
Lincoln Prairie Elementary School	Lake in the Hills	456
Locust Elementary School	Marengo	539
Lundahl Middle School	Crystal Lake	812
Mackeben Elementary School	Algonquin	540
Marengo Community Middle School	Marengo	305
Marengo High School	Marengo	660
Marlowe Middle School	Lake in the Hills	1,193
Martin Elementary School	Lake in the Hills	786
Mary Endres Elementary School	Woodstock	395
McHenry Middle School	McHenry	696
Nippersink Middle School	Richmond	383
North Elementary School	Crystal Lake	641
Northwood Middle School	Woodstock	619
Oak Knoll Early Childhood Center	Cary	319
Olson Elementary School	Woodstock	397
Parkland School	McHenry	678
Prairie Grove Elementary School	Crystal Lake	489
Prairie Grove Junior High School	Crystal Lake	320
Prairie Ridge High School	Crystal Lake	1,151
Prairiewood Elementary School	Woodstock	386
Richard F. Bernotas Middle School	Crystal Lake	800
Richmond Grade School	Richmond	406
Richmond-Burton High School	Richmond	546
Riley Community Consolidated School	Marengo	256
Ringwood School Primary Center	Ringwood	427
Riverwood Elementary School	McHenry	573
South Elementary School	Crystal Lake	407
Spring Grove Elementary School	Spring Grove	301
Three Oaks School	Cary	518
Ulysses S. Grant Intermediate School	Marengo	214
Valley View Elementary School	McHenry	538
Verda Dierzen Early Learning Center	Woodstock	695
West Elementary School	Crystal Lake	510
Westwood Elementary School	Woodstock	346
Woods Creek Elementary School	Crystal Lake	532
Woodstock High School	Woodstock	1,002
Woodstock North High School	Woodstock	937