Westville Elementary School

Westville Elementary School operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Westville, Indiana, one of the schools within MSD of New Durham Township. Current enrollment sits at 499 students spanning grades pre-K through 6.

Within MSD of New Durham Township, which oversees 2 schools and 908 students, Westville Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Westville Elementary School records that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.6:1. The state averages about 15.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 44% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Westville Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.5%, the actual is 37.0%, a residual of -7.4 points.

In the area at large, census data for LaPorte County shows the typical household earns roughly $71,055 per year, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, LaPorte County runs 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,515 students), of which Westville Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Westville High School, around 0.0 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Westville Elementary School at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 50.8%.

Westville Elementary School operates from a town-center location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 5%: 477 students in 2018 compared to 499 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.7:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

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