Westview Elem School

Westview Elem School is a primary school of tight-knit scale in Wood Dale, Illinois, part of Wood Dale SD 7, caters to 277 students in grades 3 through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 27% below the state mean of about 381.

Wood Dale SD 7 comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 890 students; Westview Elem School is among them.

On demographics, Westview Elem School reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 35% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian, 3% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 63% of students at Westview Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, DuPage County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Westview Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.2%; this one delivers 35.8%.

Across the wider county, census data for DuPage County shows median household earnings sit near $112,096, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across DuPage County's 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,557 students), Westview Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Oakbrook Elem School, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Westview Elem School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Westview Elem School at 3rd of 5; the average score across the group is 34.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Westview Elem School's enrollment has decreased 17% since 2018, when it stood at 333 (now 277). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 40% to 35%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.