William F Murphy Elem School

William F Murphy Elem School is one of the mid-sized elementary campuss in Woodridge, Illinois, operated by Woodridge SD 68, with 399 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

Woodridge SD 68 runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 2,927 students. William F Murphy Elem School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, William F Murphy Elem School shows that the most-represented group is White (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 22% Hispanic, 13% Black, 5% Asian, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 65%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 50% of students at William F Murphy Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, DuPage County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, William F Murphy Elem School sits in the top 10% of Illinois schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 42.7%; actual is 61.5%, +18.8 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the surrounding community, DuPage County reports that median household earnings sit near $112,096, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. William F Murphy Elem School is one of 277 public schools in DuPage County (combined enrollment of about 138,557 students).

Nearest neighbor: Edgewood Elem School, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, William F Murphy Elem School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 53.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at William F Murphy Elem School has stayed largely flat, going from 403 students in 2018 to 399 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 38% to 54% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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