AlWood Middle/High School

AlWood Middle/High School, a tiny senior high in Woodhull, Illinois, operated by AlWood CUSD 225, instructs 184 students, covering grades 6 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 834 students per school, that is 78% leaner than typical.

AlWood CUSD 225 runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 356 students. AlWood Middle/High School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, AlWood Middle/High School shows that nearly all students (92%) are White. Beyond that, the school shows 7% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, On paper, AlWood Middle/High School has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Henry County's rate of about 43%.

After controlling for student poverty, AlWood Middle/High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.1%; this one delivers 40.7%.

In the surrounding community, Henry County reports that median household earnings sit near $71,911, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Henry County's 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,723 students), AlWood Middle/High School is one campus in the mix.

AlWood Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.6 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, AlWood Middle/High School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 52.5%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 8%: 199 students in 2018 compared to 184 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 96% to 92%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 11.2:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 today.

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