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Enrollment
489
Elementary
DISTRICT 503 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CRYSTAL LAKE CCSD 47·NCES 171135002147
Woods Creek Elementary School
1100 Alexandra Blvd, Crystal Lake, IL 60014 · (815) 356-2720 · McHenry County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL489 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 53% of Illinois public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
111 students
DISTRICT 33% · STATE 56%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 18 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 61 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 64 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 89 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 78 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 89 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 90 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (61) is 32% smaller than its 5th grade class (90).
Student demographics
44%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 69% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
62.5%
IL avg 51.0% . +13.1pp since 2023
Math
52.6%
IL avg 37.9% . +16.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 17 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 62.5% | 52.6% |
| 2023-24 | 49.4% | 35.8% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
54.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.4%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Woods Creek Elementary School
Woods Creek Elementary School's state test result (54.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woods Creek Elementary School this school | 489 | 22.7% | 54.6% |
| Dryden Elementary School Arlington Heights | 521 | 21.1% | 68.0% |
| Prairieland Elementary School Normal | 450 | 22.2% | 60.4% |
| Sarah Adams Elementary School Lake Zurich | 429 | 26.8% | 72.8% |
| Glenwood Elementary School Chatham | 573 | 23.2% | 57.7% |
| Pleasantdale Elementary School La Grange | 466 | 17.0% | 74.9% |
Matched among Illinois elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Woods Creek Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In McHenry County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.6% | #450 of 1,925 | #13 of 44 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 52.6% | #598 of 2,077 ▲ 41 | #17 of 44 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.5% | #597 of 2,077 ▼ 93 | #15 of 44 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 489 | #592 of 2,419 | #20 of 51 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.2:1 | #604 of 2,035 | #14 of 49 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 43.7% | #1,071 of 2,042 | #32 of 49 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.7% | #1,913 of 2,132 | #46 of 49 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.2% | #526 of 1,461 | #10 of 31 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
489
-69 (-12%) vs 2020
-46% since 2000-01, when it was 907
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 489 | 40.3 | 12.2:1 | 23% (111) |
| 2023-24 | 533 | 41 | 13.0:1 | 25% (131) |
| 2022-23 | 549 | 41 | 13.4:1 | 20% (109) |
| 2020-21 | 558 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 598 | 41.2 | 14.5:1 | 13% (80) |
| 2015-16 | 590 | 42 | 14.1:1 | 15% (86) |
| 2010-11 | 640 | 37 | 17.3:1 | 9% (56) |
| 2000-01 | 907 | 39 | 23.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Woods Creek Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (598 to 489); teachers down 2% (41.2 to 40.3).
About Woods Creek Elementary School
Woods Creek Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Crystal Lake, Illinois, (ZIP code 60014). The school serves kindergarten through 5. Enrollment is 489 students. By comparison, elementary schools in Illinois enroll about 381 students on average.
Crystal Lake CCSD 47 (12 schools, 6,889 students) runs Woods Creek Elementary School.
Of every 100 students at Woods Creek Elementary School, about 74 are White. Beyond that, enrollment is 11% Hispanic, 7% Asian, and 6% multiracial. The diversity index for Woods Creek Elementary School is 44%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Woods Creek Elementary School has 40.3 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.2:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Illinois is 13.9:1. At Woods Creek Elementary School, 23% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The rate at public schools in McHenry County averages 35%, higher than here.
Woods Creek Elementary School earns a B- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 53% of Illinois public elementary schools.
On BeatsExpectations, Woods Creek Elementary School is 3.8 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Illinois schools.
In McHenry County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $104,802 a year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in McHenry County number 89, with about 50,123 students.
Glacier Ridge Elementary School is about 0.4 miles from Woods Creek Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Woods Creek Elementary School places 3rd of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 489, from 558 in 2020-21.
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McHenry County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
312,591
Census ACS
Median income
$104,802
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
89
50,123 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Crystal Lake CCSD 47
- Hannah Beardsley Middle SchoolMiddle · 829 students
- Lundahl Middle SchoolMiddle · 797 students
- Richard F Bernotas Middle SchoolMiddle · 737 students
- North Elementary SchoolElementary · 638 students
- Coventry Elementary SchoolElementary · 629 students
- West Elementary SchoolElementary · 520 students
Other schools in Crystal Lake
- Crystal Lake Central High SchoolHigh · 1,443 students
- Crystal Lake South High SchoolHigh · 1,279 students
- Prairie Ridge High SchoolHigh · 1,133 students
- Hannah Beardsley Middle SchoolMiddle · 829 students
- Lundahl Middle SchoolMiddle · 797 students
- Richard F Bernotas Middle SchoolMiddle · 737 students
Other Woods Creek Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Woods Creek Elementary. Woods Creek Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- Woods Creek ElementaryHolly Springs, NC · 406 students
Nearby schools
- Glacier Ridge Elementary School0.4 mi · 360
- Indian Prairie Elementary School1.0 mi · 496
- Crystal Lake South High School1.3 mi · 1,279
- Lincoln Prairie Elementary School1.7 mi · 479
- Lundahl Middle School2.0 mi · 797
- Coventry Elementary School2.0 mi · 629
Frequently asked questions
About Woods Creek Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Woods Creek Elementary School?
Woods Creek Elementary School enrolls approximately 489 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Woods Creek Elementary School serve?
Woods Creek Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Woods Creek Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Woods Creek Elementary School is approximately 12.2:1 (40 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Woods Creek Elementary School?
At Woods Creek Elementary School, the student body is approximately 74% White, 11% Hispanic, 2% Black, 7% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Woods Creek Elementary School?
Woods Creek Elementary School is overseen by Crystal Lake CCSD 47 in McHenry County.
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