Woodlawn Grade School, Woodlawn IL

Original Research by School Decision on Woodlawn Grade School

Woodlawn Grade School serves children from pre-K through eighth grade in a small rural village in Jefferson County, southern Illinois. The school is part of a two-campus district serving grades pre-K through twelve, with both schools located on Central Street in Woodlawn itself. The village is experiencing gradual population decline; residents are drawn largely from the surrounding agricultural region and the broader Mount Vernon micropolitan area.

Academic performance across the school shows mixed results. In math, third grade demonstrates the strongest proficiency, while proficiency declines as students advance through the grades, with sixth grade showing the lowest results. In English language arts, performance is more consistent, with eighth grade reaching higher levels and third grade showing moderate results. Science results are similarly uneven: fifth grade science proficiency sits below the pattern seen in literacy, while eighth grade science reaches a stronger level. Testing participation is very high across the school. It is worth noting that Illinois revised its proficiency cut scores across subjects in the most recent school year, so comparisons to prior years cannot be reliably made from the available data.

Among districts in Jefferson County, Woodlawn Grade School's overall proficiency index places it in the top quartile. This comparison accounts for the range of proficiency across all tested subjects and grade levels the school reports.

The student body is small and predominantly white, with most students drawn from the village and surrounding rural area. The school does not have a graduation rate because it serves only grades pre-K through eight. Free-or-reduced-price lunch eligibility data was not available, nor was specific information about students receiving special education services or students learning English as an additional language.

The school resides in a community where economic conditions are modest. Housing in the Woodlawn area was built primarily in the nineteen-eighties and nineties. The broader Woodlawn Unit School District has made no major changes in recent years that parents would need to track, according to publicly available district information.

A parent considering this school may want to look further into the school's approach to mathematics instruction and student support in the middle grades, where state proficiency rates show decline. The school provides a pre-K through eight pathway in a small-town setting where the school campus occupies a central role in the community.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 368%

School 68% · District 68%

▲ 21 pts above state median · ▲ 19 pts above county median

Grade 449%

School 49% · District 49%

▲ 12 pts above state median · ▲ 7 pts above county median

Grade 542%

School 42% · District 42%

▲ 12 pts above state median · ▲ 18 pts above county median

Grade 630%

School 30% · District 30%

▲ 6 pts above state median · ▲ 12 pts above county median

Grade 741%

School 41% · District 41%

▲ 12 pts above state median · ▲ 18 pts above county median

Grade 845%

School 45% · District 45%

▲ 22 pts above state median · ▲ 33 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 353%

School 53% · District 53%

▲ 9 pts above state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

Grade 456%

School 56% · District 56%

▲ 8 pts above state median · ▲ 10 pts above county median

Grade 547%

School 47% · District 47%

▼ 6 pts below state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

Grade 650%

School 50% · District 50%

even with state median · ▲ 7 pts above county median

Grade 750%

School 50% · District 50%

▼ 1 pts below state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

Grade 862%

School 62% · District 62%

▲ 9 pts above state median · ▲ 10 pts above county median

Science

Grade 540%

School 40% · District 40%

▲ 3 pts above state median · ▲ 4 pts above county median

Grade 859%

School 59% · District 59%

▲ 19 pts above state median · ▲ 26 pts above county median

This schoolWoodlawn Unit School District 209, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.