McHenry Times

McHenry County schools welcomed 47,036 students in the 2023-24 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

This is a decrease of 1.5% from the previous school year, when there were 47,744 students enrolled in the county.

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

Of all the students welcomed at the time, 51.6% identified as male, and 48.4% as female.

Most of the students enrolled in the county were white, representing 65.3% of its student body.

Within McHenry County, Huntley High School had the highest enrollment in the school year, welcoming 2,832 students.

As of the 2023-24 school year, Illinois public schools enrolled approximately 1.85 million students across 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. Between the 2019–20 and 2022–23 school years, Illinois public school enrollment declined from approximately 1.98 million to 1.85 million students, a decrease of about 127,000 students or 6.4%. This decline is significantly higher than the typical annual decreases of 0.5% to 1.5% observed in the preceding years, reflecting broader demographic shifts within the state.

School	City	Enrollment
Alden-Hebron Elementary School	Hebron	232
Alden-Hebron High School	Hebron	106
Alden-Hebron Middle School	Hebron	73
Algonquin Middle School	Algonquin	434
Algonquin Road Elementary School	Fox River Grove	233
Briargate Elementary School	Cary	365
Canterbury Elementary School	Crystal Lake	447
Cary Junior High School	Cary	742
Cary-Grove Community High School	Cary	1,376
Chauncey H. Duker School	McHenry	425
Chesak Elementary School	Lake in the Hills	678
Conley Elementary School	Algonquin	567
Cotton Creek School	Island Lake	567
Coventry Elementary School	Crystal Lake	595
Creekside Middle School	Woodstock	748
Crosby Elementary School	Harvard	634
Crystal Lake Central High School	Crystal Lake	1,468
Crystal Lake South High School	Crystal Lake	1,236
Dean Street Elementary School	Woodstock	336
Deer Path Elementary School	Cary	391
Early Childhood Center	Lake in the Hills	261
Eastview Elementary School	Algonquin	422
Edgebrook Elementary School	McHenry	534
Fox River Grove Middle School	Fox River Grove	184
Glacier Ridge Elementary School	Crystal Lake	388
Greenwood Elementary School	Woodstock	294
Hannah Beardsley Middle School	Crystal Lake	821
Harrison Elementary School	Wonder Lake	408
Harry D. Jacobs High School	Algonquin	2,061
Harvard High School	Harvard	800
Heineman Middle School	Algonquin	748
Hilltop Elementary School	McHenry	427
Huntley High School	Huntley	2,832
Husmann Elementary School	Crystal Lake	464
Indian Prairie Elementary School	Crystal Lake	463
Jefferson Elementary School	Harvard	357
Johnsburg Elementary School	Johnsburg	355
Johnsburg High School	Johnsburg	522
Johnsburg Junior High School	Johnsburg	363
Kenneth E. Neubert Elementary School	Algonquin	471
Lake In The Hills Elementary School	Lake in the Hills	463
Landmark Elementary School	McHenry	193
Leggee Elementary School	Huntley	891
Lincoln Prairie Elementary School	Lake in the Hills	471
Locust Elementary School	Marengo	545
Lundahl Middle School	Crystal Lake	781
Mackeben Elementary School	Algonquin	505
Marengo Community Middle School	Marengo	316
Marengo High School	Marengo	666
Marlowe Middle School	Lake in the Hills	1,238
Martin Elementary School	Lake in the Hills	761
Mary Endres Elementary School	Woodstock	383
McHenry Middle School	McHenry	687
Nippersink Middle School	Richmond	392
North Elementary School	Crystal Lake	623
Northwood Middle School	Woodstock	625
Oak Knoll Early Childhood Center	Cary	279
Olson Elementary School	Woodstock	418
Parkland School	McHenry	675
Prairie Grove Elementary School	Crystal Lake	528
Prairie Grove Junior High School	Crystal Lake	339
Prairie Ridge High School	Crystal Lake	1,153
Prairiewood Elementary School	Woodstock	363
Richard F. Bernotas Middle School	Crystal Lake	778
Richmond Grade School	Richmond	403
Richmond-Burton High School	Richmond	531
Riley Community Consolidated School	Marengo	240
Ringwood School Primary Center	Ringwood	428
Riverwood Elementary School	McHenry	596
South Elementary School	Crystal Lake	422
Spring Grove Elementary School	Spring Grove	319
Three Oaks School	Cary	553
Ulysses S. Grant Intermediate School	Marengo	224
Valley View Elementary School	McHenry	494
Verda Dierzen Early Learning Center	Woodstock	648
West Elementary School	Crystal Lake	487
Westwood Elementary School	Woodstock	346
Woods Creek Elementary School	Crystal Lake	523
Woodstock High School	Woodstock	992
Woodstock North High School	Woodstock	929