Westwood Elem School

As a middle-of-the-pack primary school in Woodstock, Illinois, Westwood Elem School serves 385 students from grades 1 through 5, one of the schools within Woodstock CUSD 200.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Westwood Elem School shows that 52% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 42% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 80% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Westwood Elem School reports 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Westwood Elem School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than McHenry County's rate of about 35%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Westwood Elem School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 41.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 50.3%.

Around the school, census data for McHenry County shows median household earnings sit near $104,802, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, McHenry County runs 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 50,123 students), of which Westwood Elem School is one.

Olson Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Westwood Elem School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 50.0%.

Westwood Elem School operates from a town-center location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Westwood Elem School has grew 18%, going from 326 students in 2018 to 385 in 2025.

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