... but unfortunately, we picked up some extra students and now pay for our sins.
There was a slight increase, but with IHSA playoff format, it's more a relative enrollment issue. GW enrollment has remained steady (with slight increase) the last 10 or so years while many perennial playoff schools that once had larger enrollments have lost more than 200 students and are now smaller than GW.
A few current playoff contenders are now consistently bigger, like Huntley and St Charles East (maybe more, but 2008 enrollments list is not archived by IHSA).
With the decline in Glenbard North enrollment, I wonder if the Glenbard District 87 board will consider having students from Queen Bee District 16 (north of North Ave and west of Bloomingdale Road) attend Glenbard North again. Glenbard West would then only have Elementary District 41 feed into GW and Queen Bee would all attend GN. I am not sure if Marquardt District 15 feeder is still split between GN and GE.
https://www.glenbard87.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/12/boundary-map.pdf
2008-2009 enrollments
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3963 - Brother Rice
2953 - Mt Carmel
2765 - GN
2625 - GE
2592 - Maine South
2575 - Schaumburg
2514 - St Rita
2514 - Jacobs
2492 - Edwardsville
2423 - WWS
2354 - Belleville West
2317 - Carmel
2286 - Lake Zurich
2270 - DGN
2216 - Wheaton North
2177 - South Elgin
2195 - Niles North
2175 - St Charles North
2127 - GW
2122 - St Charles East
1770 - Huntley
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2018-2019 enrollments
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2996 - Huntley
2733 - South Elgin
2512 - St Charles East
2401 - Maine South
2346 - Edwardsville
2321 - GW
2290 - Brother Rice
2248 - GE
2229 - GN
2206 - DGN
2158 - Belleville West
2148 - Schaumburg
2122 - Jacobs
2108 - Carmel
2096 - Wheaton North
2059 - Niles North
2042 - Mt Carmel
2022 - St Charles North
2009 - WWS
1933 - St Rita
1921 - Lake Zurich