Murrayville-Woodson Elem School

Murrayville-Woodson Elem School is a micro-enrollment elementary school in Murrayville, Illinois, operated by Jacksonville SD 117. The school works with 109 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 71% leaner than the state mean of about 381.

Jacksonville SD 117 comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 3,231 students; Murrayville-Woodson Elem School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Murrayville-Woodson Elem School lists that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 13% multiracial, 6% Hispanic.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Murrayville-Woodson Elem School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 59% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Murrayville-Woodson Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.6%, the actual is 46.5%, a residual of +8.9 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Morgan County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $66,306 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Morgan County's 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,446 students), Murrayville-Woodson Elem School is one campus in the mix.

South Jacksonville Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 8.7 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Murrayville-Woodson Elem School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 39.6%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Murrayville-Woodson Elem School's enrollment has shrank 34% since 2018, when it stood at 166 (now 109). Over the same period, the White share declined from 91% to 81%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 8.6:1 today.

Inside the community feed, members of the Murrayville-Woodson Elem School community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.