Olson Elementary School

Olson Elementary School is an average-sized elementary campus in Woodstock, Illinois, one of the schools within Woodstock CUSD 200. The school works with 425 students in grades K through 5.

Woodstock CUSD 200 runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 6,097 students. Olson Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Olson Elementary School logs that 51% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 40% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, McHenry County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 47% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against McHenry County (around 35%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Olson Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 50.4%.

In the area at large, McHenry County reports that median household earnings sit near $104,802, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, McHenry County runs 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 50,123 students), of which Olson Elementary School is one.

Woodstock High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Olson Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Olson Elementary School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 50.0%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Olson Elementary School has held roughly steady, going from 432 students in 2018 to 425 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 57% to 51% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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