Westmoreland Elem

Westmoreland Elem is a K-5 school of small scale in Westmoreland, Kansas, operated by Rock Creek, teacheing 126 students in grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 313 students each, so Westmoreland Elem sits 60% leaner than that benchmark.

Rock Creek runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,330 students. Westmoreland Elem is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Westmoreland Elem reports that 98% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 89%.

In terms of school funding signals, Westmoreland Elem logs 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. About 33% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Westmoreland Elem tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 46.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 53.7%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Pottawatomie County indicate median household income runs about $92,325, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Westmoreland Elem is one of 16 public schools in Pottawatomie County (combined enrollment of about 4,283 students).

Rock Creek Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 6.3 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Westmoreland Elem comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 46.3%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 12%: 143 students in 2018 compared to 126 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 11.0:1 in 2018 to 9.0:1 today.

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