Westchester Middle School

Westchester Middle School is one of the public schools in Chesterton, Indiana. It is a small middle-grades school. It teaches 448 students in grades 7 through 8. By comparison, middle schools in Indiana enroll about 594 students on average.

Westchester Middle School is one of the 11 schools that make up Duneland School Corporation (5,732 students in total).

At Westchester Middle School, 75% of students are White. The school is also 14% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 3% Black. That is lower than the 84% White share among all Porter County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 41%.

The school has 26.3 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 17.0 students per teacher. Statewide, middle schools in Indiana average 15.6:1. Of all students at Westchester Middle School, 33% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The figure for public schools in Porter County is close, at 34%.

Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Porter County show that median household income comes to about $87,972, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 31% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. Porter County counts 55 public schools with about 25,813 students.

Westchester Intermediate School is less than a tenth of a mile from Westchester Middle School, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools.

The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

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