West Elementary School

As a small elementary school in Mount Vernon, Indiana, West Elementary School works with 350 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within MSD Mount Vernon.

Within MSD Mount Vernon, which oversees 5 schools and 1,999 students, West Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, West Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%). Other groups include 8% multiracial, 4% Black, 3% Hispanic. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 94%.

Looking at school resources, West Elementary School reports 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.7:1. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 60% of students at West Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Posey County runs at roughly 36%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), West Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Indiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 32.9%; West Elementary School posts 50.1%, +17.2 points above that line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Posey County) reports that median household earnings sit near $78,129, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. West Elementary School is one of 9 public schools in Posey County (combined enrollment of about 3,454 students).

Mount Vernon High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around West Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts West Elementary School at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 55.6%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Five-year trend. West Elementary School's enrollment has declined 3% since 2018, when it stood at 362 (now 350). Hispanic enrollment moved from 8% to 3% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for West Elementary School typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.