Creekside Middle School

Set in Woodstock, Illinois, Creekside Middle School is a heavily attended junior high, part of Woodstock CUSD 200. It educates 736 students across grades 5 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 59% bigger than the state mean of about 462.

Woodstock CUSD 200 comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 6,097 students; Creekside Middle School is among them.

Demographically, Creekside Middle School logs that the largest single group is White, at 55% of enrollment. Other groups include 35% Hispanic, 6% Black, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 80% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Creekside Middle School has 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. An estimated 46% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above McHenry County's rate of about 35%.

After controlling for student poverty, Creekside Middle School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 44.9%; this one delivers 59.7%, a residual of +14.8 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for McHenry County indicate the typical household earns roughly $104,802 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, McHenry County runs 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 50,123 students), of which Creekside Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Prairiewood Elem Sch, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Creekside Middle School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 48.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 6%: 786 students in 2018 compared to 736 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 in 2025.

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