Westlake Elementary School

Westlake Elementary School operates as a roomy K-5 school in Indianapolis, Indiana, run under MSD Wayne Township. Current enrollment sits at 736 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 436 students per school, that is 69% bigger than typical.

Westlake Elementary School is one of 17 schools operated by MSD Wayne Township, a district that teaches 16,094 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Westlake Elementary School shows that 52% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 36% Hispanic, 8% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Marion County as a whole is about 27% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Westlake Elementary School reports 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Westlake Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 63% of students at Westlake Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Westlake Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.2%, the actual is 18.0%, a residual of -13.2 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Marion County indicate median household earnings sit near $66,346, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Marion County's 274 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students), Westlake Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Chapelwood Elementary School, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Westlake Elementary School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Westlake Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 40.3%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 9%: 812 students in 2018 compared to 736 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 16% to 8% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

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