Westhaven Elementary

Westhaven Elementary is an elementary school of close-knit scale in Belleville, Illinois, part of Belleville SD 118, hosting 313 students in grades K through 6.

Belleville SD 118 comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 3,275 students; Westhaven Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Westhaven Elementary reports that the largest single group is Black at 52%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 30% White, 11% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 28% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Westhaven Elementary has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Westhaven Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 65% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, St. Clair County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Westhaven Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.1%, the actual is 44.2%, a residual of +10.2 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for St. Clair County indicate median household income runs about $73,854, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Westhaven Elementary is one of 96 public schools in St. Clair County (combined enrollment of about 40,879 students).

The closest other public school is Central Jr High School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Westhaven Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 39.9%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Westhaven Elementary has declined 32%, going from 459 students in 2018 to 313 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 48% to 30% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 9.2:1 in 2025.

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