Options Westfield

Options Westfield is one of the very small four-year high schools in Carmel, Indiana, operated by Options Charter Schools, with 248 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 816 students each, so Options Westfield sits 70% smaller than that benchmark.

Options Charter Schools runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,043 students. Options Westfield is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Options Westfield reports that the largest single group is White, at 74% of enrollment. Other groups include 9% Black, 8% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 2% Asian.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Options Westfield tighter than the state norm the norm. About 5% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Hamilton County runs at roughly 21%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Options Westfield falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 71.8%; this one comes in at 15.6%, -56.2 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Hamilton County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $121,530 per year, about 62% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. In all, Hamilton County runs 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,065 students), of which Options Westfield is one.

Nearest neighbor: Washington Woods Elementary School, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Options Westfield ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 66.1%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site. As a public charter, Options Westfield runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Options Westfield's enrollment has ticked up 39% since 2018, when it stood at 179 (now 248). White enrollment moved from 69% to 74% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 25.6:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 today.

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