Topeka Elementary School

Topeka Elementary School, a close-knit elementary campus in Topeka, Indiana, run under Westview School Corporation, educates 248 students, covering grades K through 4. That puts it 43% smaller than the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 436 students.

Westview School Corporation runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,931 students. Topeka Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Topeka Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (96%); the rest looks like 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, Topeka Elementary School has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.1:1. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 44% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Topeka Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.7%, the actual is 52.4%, a residual of +7.7 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for LaGrange County indicate median household income runs about $84,487, 12% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across LaGrange County's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,769 students), Topeka Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Westview Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 5.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Topeka Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 50.2%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Topeka Elementary School has contracted 19%, going from 307 students in 2018 to 248 in 2025.

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