Westville High School

Westville High School operates as an intimate 9-12 campus in Westville, Illinois, overseen by Westville CUSD 2. Current enrollment sits at 334 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 834 students per school, that is 60% smaller than typical.

Within Westville CUSD 2, which oversees 3 schools and 1,149 students, Westville High School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Westville High School reports that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Vermilion County as a whole is about 78% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Westville High School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Vermilion County (around 71%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Westville High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.3%, the actual is 29.8%, a residual of -11.5 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Vermilion County indicate the typical household earns roughly $56,877 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Vermilion County runs 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,267 students), of which Westville High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Westville Jr High School, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Westville High School. On composite proficiency, Westville High School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 25.9%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Westville High School's enrollment has decreased 14% since 2018, when it stood at 387 (now 334). Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 in 2025.

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