Schools among Will County had the 31st highest truancy rate of 14.4% during the 2021-2022 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education report.
In the 2021-22 school year, 3.3% of students enrolled in Will County school districts identified as Asian.
In Will County schools, there were more white students than any other individual ethnicity in the 2021-22 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
Lockport Township High School East stood out in Will County with 3,778 students enrolled in the 2021-22 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education report.
Enrollment numbers in Will County schools fell from the previous year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
A federal judge denied a preliminary injunction that would have temporarily blocked Bolingbrook High School from allowing biological male students access to female restrooms, prompting an immediate appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.