Woodland Elementary

Set in Gages Lake, Illinois, Woodland Elementary is a sizable elementary campus, overseen by Woodland CCSD 50. It educates 1,386 students across grades 1 through 3. Enrollment runs roughly 264% larger than the state mean of about 381.

Woodland CCSD 50 runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 4,563 students. Woodland Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Woodland Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 43%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 31% White, 11% Asian, 9% Black, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Woodland Elementary lists 114 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 45% of students at Woodland Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Lake County's rate of about 54%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Woodland Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.7%, the actual is 38.6%, a residual of -7.1 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Lake County put median household earnings sit near $110,416, about 48% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Lake County's 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 118,032 students), Woodland Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Woodland Primary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Woodland Elementary comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 35.7%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Woodland Elementary's enrollment has fell 18% since 2018, when it stood at 1,687 (now 1,386). Hispanic enrollment moved from 32% to 43% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 in 2025.

On allk12, members of the Woodland Elementary community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.