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Enrollment
445
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 325
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LINN-MAR COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 191722000368
Westfield Elementary School
901 E Main St, Robins, IA 52328 · (319) 447-3350 · Linn County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL445 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 85% of Iowa public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Iowa public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
19%
85 students
DISTRICT 26% · STATE 41%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 84 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 82 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 106 | 24% |
| Grade 3 | 72 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 101 | 23% |
This year's kindergarten class (84) is 17% smaller than its 4th grade class (101).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 44% · STATE 48% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
83.4%
IA avg 73.6% . +0.1pp since 2023
Math
84.6%
IA avg 70.9% . -6.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 85 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Iowa schools, those numbers are about 74 and 71. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 7 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 83.4% | 84.6% |
| 2023-24 | 83.3% | 91.1% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: ISASP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
85.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
82.4%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 86% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 82% typical for Iowa schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Iowa's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Westfield Elementary School
Westfield Elementary School's state test result (85.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westfield Elementary School this school | 445 | 19.1% | 85.6% |
| Wickham Elementary Coralville | 315 | 19.7% | 92.1% |
| Hopewell Elementary Bettendorf | 658 | 4.0% | 96.2% |
| Fellows Elementary School Ames | 489 | 28.8% | 83.5% |
| Woodland Hills Elementary School West Des Moines | 578 | 21.6% | 83.3% |
| Timber Ridge Elementary Johnston | 667 | 27.3% | 73.9% |
Matched among Iowa elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Westfield Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Linn County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 85.6% | #42 of 564 | #2 of 39 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 84.6% | #132 of 564 ▼ 103 | #6 of 39 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 83.4% | #90 of 564 ▼ 31 | #7 of 39 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 445 | #153 of 705 | #8 of 45 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #339 of 561 | #25 of 42 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.1% | #125 of 561 | #14 of 42 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 19.1% | #606 of 666 | #39 of 44 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.8% | #108 of 359 | #11 of 30 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
445
-74 (-14%) vs 2020
-2% since 2000-01, when it was 456
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 15.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 445 | 32 | 13.9:1 | 19% (85) |
| 2023-24 | 454 | 33 | 13.8:1 | 18% (80) |
| 2022-23 | 506 | 32.7 | 15.5:1 | 20% (101) |
| 2020-21 | 519 | 34 | 15.3:1 | 17% (90) |
| 2017-18 | 548 | 33.2 | 16.5:1 | 19% (103) |
| 2015-16 | 436 | 29 | 15.0:1 | 8% (37) |
| 2010-11 | 459 | 32 | 14.3:1 | 4% (18) |
| 2000-01 | 456 | 22 | 20.7:1 | 11% (48) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Westfield Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 19% (548 to 445); teachers down 4% (33.2 to 32).
About Westfield Elementary School
Westfield Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in Robins, Iowa, one of the schools in Linn-Mar Comm School District. A total of 445 students attend the school, which covers kindergarten through 4. The average for elementary schools in Iowa is about 325 students, so this school is 37% larger than average.
Westfield Elementary School is among 12 schools run by Linn-Mar Comm School District, which serves 7,361 students.
At Westfield Elementary School, White students make up 53% of the student body. Next come 29% Asian, 8% Black, 5% multiracial, and 4% Hispanic. The county population is about 84% White. Westfield Elementary School's diversity index is 62%, against a US figure of 70%.
Westfield Elementary School employs 32 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 13.9:1. That matches the 13.7:1 average for elementary schools in Iowa fairly closely. Westfield Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 19%. For comparison, public schools in Linn County average 40%.
allk12 grades Westfield Elementary School an A. The grade compares the school only with Iowa public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Westfield Elementary School, the prediction is 82.4% and the result is 85.6%.
Census estimates describe Linn County this way: the median household income is $77,649, about 35% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. In all, Linn County has 83 public schools and roughly 36,480 students.
Nixon Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles away. The five-mile area around Westfield Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Westfield Elementary School ranks 2nd of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 85.6% against a local average of 77.5%.
The school's locale code, City: Mid-size, means it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Over 4 years, Westfield Elementary School's enrollment declined 14%, to 445. The school's ratio fell from 15.3:1 to 13.9:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
Conversations here can range across enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
Linn County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
230,004
Census ACS
Median income
$77,649
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
83
36,480 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Linn-Mar Comm School District
- Linn-Mar High SchoolHigh · 2,229 students
- Boulder Peak Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 613 students
- Excelsior Middle SchoolMiddle · 594 students
- Hazel Point Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 563 students
- Echo Hill ElementaryElementary · 536 students
- Oak Ridge Middle SchoolMiddle · 534 students
Other Westfield Elementary schools
5 other US public schools in 6 states are named Westfield Elementary. Westfield Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 6.
- Westfield ElementaryPorterville, CA · 661 students
- Westfield Elementary SchoolGlen Ellyn, IL · 311 students
- WESTFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWESTFIELD, NY · 288 students
- Westfield ElementaryWestfield, WI · 275 students
- Westfield ElementaryPilot Mountain, NC · 212 students
Nearby schools
- Nixon Elementary School1.6 mi · 289
- Bowman Woods Elementary School1.7 mi · 413
- Oak Ridge Middle School1.8 mi · 534
- Echo Hill Elementary2.0 mi · 536
- Hazel Point Intermediate School2.2 mi · 563
- Hiawatha Elementary School2.3 mi · 334
Frequently asked questions
About Westfield Elementary SchoolHow large is Westfield Elementary School?
Westfield Elementary School enrolls approximately 445 students in grades KG-04.
Is Westfield Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Westfield Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-04.
How many teachers does Westfield Elementary School have?
Westfield Elementary School employs 32 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.9:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Westfield Elementary School?
At Westfield Elementary School, the student body is approximately 53% White, 4% Hispanic, 8% Black, 29% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Westfield Elementary School?
Westfield Elementary School is overseen by Linn-Mar Comm School District in Linn County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.