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Remote, in-class options available in District 200


Music students in Woodstock School District 200 are enjoying a virtual summer camp coordinated by the district’s orchestra teachers to replace the district’s annual in-person summer camp. Elementary teachers Jillian […]


Students in Woodstock School District 200 will have the option to continue learning from home this fall or to return to the classrooms they haven’t seen since March.In a special […]

Two Woodstock residents and one from Wonder Lake are recipients this year of a women’s scholarship at McHenry County College. Education to Empowerment – E2E – is sponsored by the […]

Woodstock School District 200 is working on a plan for the 2020-21 school year, which is tentatively scheduled to begin in mid-August. Superintendent Mike Moan in late June sent D-200 […]



Twenty graduating seniors from Woodstock and Woodstock North high schools have received the District 200 School Board’s annual PRIDE Awards. The name is an acronym for “Positive Recognition in District […]

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