Woodlawn Unit School District 209

Woodlawn Unit School District 209 has two schools serving preschool through grade 12: Woodlawn Grade School (PK–8, 322 students) and Woodlawn High School (grades 9–12, 174 students), with 496 students listed altogether. Their results show different strengths, and the schools’ different grade spans mean their test scores do not support a fair head-to-head ranking. The clearest shared concern is science: every reported school result was below its state benchmark.

Woodlawn Grade School stands out in ELA: its 2025–26 all-grades result was 63%, compared with 56% statewide, a 6-point advantage. Fourth-grade ELA was especially strong at 85%, 29 points above the state. Math was a weaker and more uneven area: the all-grades result was 35%, 4 points below the state, even though grades 3 and 4 were above state rates. At Woodlawn High School, 11th-grade ACT ELA and math were close to state levels: ELA was 49.0% versus 49.9%, and math was 39% versus 40%. Its 11th-grade ACT science result was 35%, 13 points below the state. The elementary school’s science results were also below state rates in grades 5 and 8.

Recent changes were mixed. Grade-school all-grades ELA rose from 52% to 63% between 2024–25 and 2025–26, improving its state comparison from 1 point below to 6 points above. Math fell from 45% to 35%, moving from 6 points above the state to 4 points below. High-school 11th-grade ACT ELA improved by 9 points, while science fell by 17 points. SchoolDigger ranks the grade school at the 57th percentile in Illinois (3 stars) and the high school at the 48th percentile (2 stars). In 2024–25, student-teacher ratios were 13.1 and 12.4, respectively; free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 43% at the grade school and 36% at the high school. These are context measures, not explanations of the results.