Westlane Middle School

Westlane Middle School, a mid-sized intermediate school in Indianapolis, Indiana, one of the schools within MSD Washington Township, hosts 754 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 27% bigger than the state mean of about 594.

MSD Washington Township runs 14 schools in total, collectively educating 11,560 students. Westlane Middle School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Westlane Middle School reports that the most-represented group is Black (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 28% Hispanic, 18% White, 5% multiracial, 5% Asian. By comparison, Marion County as a whole is about 27% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.0:1. The state averages around 15.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 54% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Westlane Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 37.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 31.1%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Marion County put median household income runs about $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. In all, Marion County runs 274 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students), of which Westlane Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Willow Lake Elementary School, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Westlane Middle School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 30.0%.

Westlane Middle School operates from an inner-city location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 18%: 919 students in 2018 compared to 754 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 22% to 28%. Class-load math has fell: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

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