Westview Elementary School

Westview Elementary School operates as a compact middle-grades school in Topeka, Indiana, overseen by Westview School Corporation. Current enrollment sits at 348 students spanning grades 5 through 6. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 594 students each, so Westview Elementary School sits 41% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 5 schools in Westview School Corporation (1,931 students total), Westview Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Westview Elementary School logs that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 30% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of LaGrange County's rate of about 40%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Westview Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.4%, the actual is 60.1%, a residual of +5.7 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for LaGrange County indicate median household income runs about $84,487, 12% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across LaGrange County's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,769 students), Westview Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Westview Jr-Sr High School, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Westview Elementary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Westview Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 54.0%.

Westview Elementary School operates from a low-density location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Westview Elementary School has declined 10%, going from 388 students in 2018 to 348 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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