Woodland Intermediate Sch

Located at 1115 N Hunt Club Rd, in Gurnee, Illinois, Woodland Intermediate Sch is a heavily attended primary school that serves 979 students (grades 4 through 5), part of Woodland CCSD 50. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Woodland Intermediate Sch sits 157% bigger than that benchmark.

Woodland CCSD 50 comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 4,563 students; Woodland Intermediate Sch is among them.

On demographics, Woodland Intermediate Sch shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 34% White, 10% Black, 9% Asian, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 82 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Woodland Intermediate Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 40% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Lake County (around 54%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Woodland Intermediate Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.3%; this one delivers 40.3%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Lake County shows the typical household earns roughly $110,416 per year, roughly 48% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Woodland Intermediate Sch is one of 214 public schools in Lake County (combined enrollment of about 118,032 students).

Woodland Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Woodland Intermediate Sch. On composite proficiency, Woodland Intermediate Sch comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 38.6%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 20%: 1,230 students in 2018 compared to 979 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 41% to 34%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 in 2025.

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