Summary:
The AlWood CUSD 225 district has only one elementary school, AlWood Elementary School, which serves grades PK-5 with a total enrollment of 184 students. The school's performance has remained consistent, with a 3 out of 5 SchoolDigger star rating over the past three school years.
AlWood Elementary School has shown improvement in academic achievement, outperforming the district and state averages in English Language Arts (ELA) proficiency for all grades, 3rd grade, 4th grade, and 5th grade in the 2024-2025 school year. However, in Mathematics, the school's proficiency rates were lower than the district and state averages for all grades and 5th grade, but higher for 3rd and 4th grades. The school's 5th-grade Science proficiency rate was also higher than the state average.
The school has a relatively high percentage of free and reduced-price lunch recipients at 48.37% in the 2023-2024 school year, indicating that it serves a population with significant economic challenges. Despite this, the school's per-student spending is higher than the typical per-student spending in Illinois, and its student-teacher ratio of 9:1 is lower than the typical class size, suggesting that the district is allocating resources effectively to support student learning and provide a favorable learning environment.
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