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Westview Hills Middle School
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Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 14 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 18 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 46% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 14 points, placing it in Illinois's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Westview Hills Middle School
Westview Hills Middle School is an intermediate school of average-sized scale in Willowbrook, Illinois, part of Maercker SD 60, teacheing 455 students in grades 6 through 8.
Westview Hills Middle School is one of 3 schools operated by Maercker SD 60, a district that serves 1,430 students overall.
Looking at the student body, Westview Hills Middle School records that the most-represented group is White (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 23% Hispanic, 21% Asian, 7% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, DuPage County as a whole is about 65% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.0:1, putting Westview Hills Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. About 45% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above DuPage County's rate of about 34%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Westview Hills Middle School ranks in the top 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 45.8%; Westview Hills Middle School posts 59.5%, +13.8 points above that line.
In the area at large, DuPage County reports that median household income runs about $112,096, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, DuPage County runs 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,557 students), of which Westview Hills Middle School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Mark DeLay School, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Westview Hills Middle School at 1st of 4; the average score across the group is 53.0%.
The school occupies a residential site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Westview Hills Middle School has fell 5%, going from 478 students in 2018 to 455 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 17% to 23% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.
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