From a Freind of McHenry County Blog:
| CHANGE IN STUDENT ENROLLMENT BY SCHOOL DISTRICT | |
| SCHOOL DISTRICT | STUDENTS |
| Prairie Grove Grade School District 46 | -35.26% |
| Johnsburg School District 12 | -30.20% |
| Cary Grade School District 26 | -29.16% |
| Nippersink Grade School District 2 | -28.40% |
| Fox River Grove Grade School District 3 | -25.31% |
| Marengo High School District 154 | -22.80% |
| Harrison Grade School District 36 | -20.68% |
| Richmond-Burton High School District 157 | -18.18% |
| Alden Hebron School District 19 | -17.86% |
| Crystal Lake Grade School District 47 | -15.61% |
| Marengo-Union Grade School District 165 | -15.12% |
| Ctystal Lake High School District 155 | -12.95% |
| McHenry High School District 156 | -11.16% |
| Riley Grade School District 18 | -10.19% |
| McHenry Grade School District 15 | 1.34% |
| Woodstock School District 200 | 1.68% |
| Harvard School 50 | 12.01% |
| Huntley School 158 | 16.89% |
| https://www.isbe.net/Pages/Fall-Enrollment-Counts.aspx |
To the best of my knowledge, only Cary has closed a school.
Except for 4 school districts, enrollment in all other school districts is down from 10 to 35 percent. Should costs to operate have come down and thus homeowner real estate taxes? To the contrary. Would expect that with continued bloated administration and increases in salaries of teachers and administration that cost per student rose dramatically from 2008-2018. Perhaps someone reading this blog has this info.
Could out of control Illinois property taxes be the reason for this exodus?
More than 60 percent of the state’s estimated population decline in 2018 came from Cook, DuPage and Lake counties.
That’s according to new U.S. Census Bureau estimates released this week that indicate there were 45,116 fewer residents in the state in 2018 than in the previous year.
It is the largest estimated population loss in the state this decade and continues a trend of declining population that began in 2014.
Only New York lost more residents than Illinois in 2018, according to the census estimates.
Cook County’s estimated decline was more than 24,000 residents.
Meanwhile, DuPage and Lake counties appear to have lost a little more than 2,000 residents each as well.
“Since the (Great) Recession, we’ve seen a change in migration patterns with more residents leaving the region all together, and that’s part of what we’re seeing here,” said Aseal Tineh, associate policy analyst for the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning.
“There is a relationship between population growth and economic opportunities, and that’s playing a part as well.”
CMAP issued a report on the effects of the latest census figures, which is available at the agency’s website, cmap.illinois.gov.
Illinois’ population peaked in 2013.
Since then, census officials estimate, Illinois has lost more than 157,000 residents.
Once the fifth-most populated state, Illinois is now sixth behind California, Texas, Florida, New York and Pennsylvania, and it likely will lose a congressional seat after the 2020 census is released.
Overall, the drop represents less than 0.4 percent of the state’s population.
But for the first time statewide, every metropolitan statistical saw its population decline.
Illinois was one of nine states to lose population in the last year.
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20190418/census-bureau-estimates-cook-lake-and-dupage-counties-lost-thousands-of-residents
Read this blog top down. Did not realize there was an article further down in blog that associates school enrollment decline with changes in amount of taxes to citizens.
If we weren’t being inundated w/ illegal alien kids, the decreases would be MUCH greater.
Right on Ghost!
I’m wondering why anybody would send their kids to public schools around here!
Alden Hebron School District 19 -17.86%
Yeah, I know our enrollment is down by almost 20%…..
But hey, let’s spend $20 million for a new High School that will be half empty!