Westwood View Elem

Westwood View Elem is a K-5 school of mid-sized scale in Westwood, Kansas, one of the schools within Shawnee Mission Pub Sch, educateing 321 students in grades pre-K through 6.

Shawnee Mission Pub Sch runs 45 schools in total, collectively educating 26,330 students. Westwood View Elem is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Westwood View Elem lists that nearly all students (83%) are White; the rest looks like 7% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 2% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.5:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 7% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Johnson County runs at roughly 27%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Westwood View Elem is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 58.9%; this one delivers 84.2%, a residual of +25.3 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Johnson County) logs that median household income runs about $109,208, roughly 58% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Johnson County's 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 93,598 students), Westwood View Elem is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Frank Rushton Elem, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Westwood View Elem. On composite proficiency, Westwood View Elem comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 50.9%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 4%: 308 students in 2018 compared to 321 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.