Wood View Elem School

Wood View Elem School, a reasonably sized elementary campus in Bolingbrook, Illinois, one of the schools within Valley View CUSD 365U, educates 443 students, covering grades K through 5.

Across the 20 schools in Valley View CUSD 365U (14,710 students total), Wood View Elem School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Wood View Elem School shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 29% Black, 19% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Will County as a whole is about 20% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 61% of students at Wood View Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Will County (around 44%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Wood View Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.2%, the actual is 44.4%, a residual of +8.2 points.

In the broader community, Will County reports that the typical household earns roughly $109,984 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Will County runs 209 public schools (combined enrollment of about 113,008 students), of which Wood View Elem School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Jonas E Salk Elem School, around 0.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Wood View Elem School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Looking at the recent track record. Wood View Elem School's enrollment has increased 21% since 2018, when it stood at 367 (now 443). Hispanic enrollment moved from 29% to 43% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

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