List of school districts in Illinois

K-12 education in Illinois

Education facts
State superintendent: Tony Sanders
Number of students: 1,925,415
Number of teachers: 130,467
Teacher/pupil ratio: 1: 14.7
Number of school districts: 853
Number of schools: 3,977
Graduation rate: 86%
Per-pupil spending: $12,288
See also
Illinois State Board of Education • List of school districts in Illinois • Illinois • School boards portal

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Note: The statistics on this page are mainly from government sources, including the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Center for Education Statistics. Figures given were the most recent as of June 2015.

This page lists Illinois' public school districts in alphabetical order.^[1] The list is updated once per decade following the release of the U.S. Census. Note that school districts may have been created, dissolved, or merged since the last update.

See also: School board elections in Illinois

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↑ National Center for Education Statistics, "Search for Public School Districts," accessed February 23, 2021

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