New 23-24 and 24-25 classifications dropped today IHSA
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Nazareth enrollment down by quite a bit, it looks like: 754 to 715. Should keep then in 5A for football, at least until possible SF if they were to return to state.
I saw that, too. Enrollment number at 1601. Some of this year's 6A playoff teams were in the 1700s, so I am thinking the Mustangs will be in 6A. Possible high 6A, low 7A team, if things go a certain way.
Rita, ESL, PR, CG, Lemont--very interesting.
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1-32 coming to 6A should be interesting. Under the old format it would be a SR-CG/PR match, 6a north wasn't strong this season
There wasn't that many transfers outside of Naz losing most of their football team that year.
Outside of sports, there were alot of midyear transfers which could impact enrollment numbers. I can name 10-12 freshman who left Naperville and Wheaton public schools to go to Benet midyear.
Lots of enrollments going down with the area I’m most familiar with.
Wilmington population has gone up 600-700 since the 2000 census, but the high school enrollment has dropped over 100 students.
Saw other day Illinois population went down 110K people in 2022, thats just insane.. I feel all of the ICE schools, with exception of Streator have seen a decent amount of new housing for a rural area, but the enrolments at all of the schools have declined..
All..... Speaking of the Celtics.... at their new enrollment 785.50 and multiplied to 1296.075 NLP appears to be a 5A/6A bubble team when the postseason qualifiers are announced. Fwiw Dunlap was the largest 5A playoff team this year at 1287.50. Ratsy
I wonder if Rita would have been aligned up North with PR-CG before the state finals? Or be in ESL's South bracket and face them before the finals for this year. I am assuming ESL will be 6A for years to come.
So, 6A will be 1-32 seeding in the future?
6a North and South. They would have been South this year.
Dowling was a good interview as well as a great quarterback. Ramblin' Jack will beat Loyola too. Soundly. .
I believe I can answer this.
Official school enrollment for Illinois high schools for the next calendar year is on Sept. 30. The IHSA didn't pick that date, the. IHSA just uses the number given by each school on that date. The number of students in attendance that day is the school enrollment total for the following school year. Since in 2023, Sept. 30 is a Saturday, I shall assume the official "count" day with either Friday, Sept. 29 or Monday, Oct. 2.. The schools want every student in school on that day because government revenue is based on the number of students. If you have a kid in high school, he/she might actually have heard school officials mention toward the ending of September that it's really important to be at school on Sept. 30, 2022. It's all about government funding for schools which is based on enrollment.
There is no such thing as a school getting 100 transfer students at midterm or losing 100 students via transfer at midterm and the school enrollment total changing. Obviously, that transfer thing can happen, but it has zero effect on the school's public enrollment number. And remember, there is a one-year lag time between school enrollment and the IHSA using that number. So, for example, Marian Central of Woodstock might have an enrollment figure of 356 students for the 2023-2024 school year based on the Sept. 30, 2022 count. And that 356 number is what the IHSA will use for Marian's 2023-2024 school year even if 100 seniors graduate in June and 700 freshman enroll in August pushing the actual body county to 956. That 956 number would then show up on Sept. 30, 2023 which means that would be Marian's enrollment for the 2024-2025 school year.
In short, transfer students who change schools after Sept. 30 will count the next year for a school that they do not attend any more, and they will not count as an additional student for the school they are attending for that one school year.
Remember, every school wants the highest possible enrollment number because there is a gov't assigned monetary value to each student in the school.
And for high school football purposes, because there is no defined "class" enrollment figure, the entire enrollment thing is, except the obvious 1A schools and obvious 8A schools, totally fluid and nothing but guessing and conjecture.
I mean, somebody with time on their hands, count how many different posts there were during the past football season about a downstate football power being in the 3A tournament rather than the 4A tournament which of course is where they wound up.
I mean, it's December and the guessing has already started on St. Rita for next year. And this is occurring at a time when total enrollment numbers for Illinois IHSA football-playing schools are significantly down in a lot of places.
To me, if I want a general idea of what direction football enrollments are. going for state powerhouse-type teams, I would take the 256 state qualifiers from this past season, list them with their new enrollments for the next two-year cycle. And see what teams would changed classes, or perhaps no teams will change. That would seem to give some general guideline about what is happening in terms of guestimating class enrollmnets for next football season.
At least then, we will have some data. To say St. Rita will have a football enrollment of 1,610 next fall is totally accurate, but how many of the other what can can perennial playoff qualifiers are going to have significant changes that could turn the 1,610 number into a 5A team, a 6A team or a 7A team?
