Wes-Del Elementary School

Located at 500 Jackson St, in Gaston, Indiana, Wes-Del Elementary School is a moderately sized elementary campus that caters to 427 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by Wes-Del Community Schools.

Wes-Del Community Schools runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 862 students. Wes-Del Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Wes-Del Elementary School lists that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 85%.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 59% of students at Wes-Del Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Wes-Del Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.6%; this one delivers 39.7%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Delaware County indicate the typical household earns roughly $58,127 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Delaware County runs 36 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,683 students), of which Wes-Del Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Wes-Del Middle/Senior High School, roughly 2.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Wes-Del Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 45.4%.

Wes-Del Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 14%: 375 students in 2018 compared to 427 in 2025. The White share of enrollment expanded from 90% to 95% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.

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