NCES CCD 2024-25 11 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in Woodstock, IL

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11 public K-12 schools in Woodstock from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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11
Schools
6,097
Students
46.2/100
Avg Resource Index
16:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Woodstock has more public-school enrollment than 64% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Woodstock sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

6 of Woodstock's 11 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 1 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Woodstock's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 75th percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 18-point gap between Northwood Middle School and Woodstock High School measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 36%
School count
Top 35%
Resource Index average
75th percentile
Teacher staffing
43rd percentile

Woodstock High School accounts for 16.2% of all Woodstock public-school enrollment

That concentration means Woodstock-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Woodstock school enrollment varies 3.4× across entities

Woodstock school enrollment ranges from 290 students (lowest) to 988 students (highest), a spread of 698 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Woodstock operates one school district — a single-district system

Woodstock's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Woodstock student-teacher ratio is 16.0:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Woodstock is typically wider than the Woodstock-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Northwood Middle School 56
2. Greenwood Elem School 56
3. Prairiewood Elem Sch 52
4. Olson Elementary School 51
5. Westwood Elem School 47
6. Mary Endres Elementary School 46
7. Dean Street Elem School 42
8. Woodstock North High School 41
9. Creekside Middle School 41
10. Woodstock High School 38
11. Verda Dierzen Early Learning Ctr 38

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Woodstock

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Mary Endres Elementary School 60.3/100
  2. 2 Dean Street Elem School 59.2/100
  3. 3 Verda Dierzen Early Learning Ctr 57.5/100
  4. 4 Woodstock High School 57.2/100
  5. 5 Olson Elementary School 57.2/100

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Which Woodstock school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Northwood Middle School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Woodstock schools in this federal-data comparison at 56/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Woodstock, IL? ▼

Woodstock has 11 public schools with a total enrollment of 6,097 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.