Woodland Primary School

As a substantial elementary campus in Gages Lake, Illinois, Woodland Primary School instructs 657 students from grades pre-K through K, one of the schools within Woodland CCSD 50. Enrollment runs roughly 72% above the state mean of about 381.

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

On the student-mix side, Woodland Primary School records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 27% White, 12% Asian, 8% Black, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Lake County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Woodland Primary School shows 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Woodland Primary School higher than the state norm the norm. About 45% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Lake County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

In the broader 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%. Across Lake County's 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 118,032 students), Woodland Primary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Woodland Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 658 students in 2018 compared to 657 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 30% to 44% across the same window.

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