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Westview Elementary School
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 1 | 135 | 30% |
| Grade 2 | 140 | 31% |
| Grade 3 | 171 | 38% |
School pathway
Test scores
M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientWhat this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 21 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 25 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Michigan schools, those numbers are about 48 and 45.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% typical for Michigan 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 Michigan's top nor bottom 10%.
Schools most like Westview Elementary School
Westview Elementary School's state test result (23.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westview Elementary School this school | 446 | 77.8% | 23.1% |
| Mound Park Elementary School WARREN | 296 | 79.7% | 22.0% |
| Bowen Elementary GRAND RAPIDS | 357 | 78.2% | 37.3% |
| Endeavor Elementary GRAND RAPIDS | 553 | 68.7% | 37.8% |
| May V Peck Elementary School CENTER LINE | 493 | 68.0% | 20.4% |
| Challenger Elementary GRAND RAPIDS | 413 | 80.1% | 38.7% |
Where Westview Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Michigan | In Macomb County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.1% | #1,042 of 1,085 | #96 of 100 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 25.1% | #985 of 1,072 | #91 of 98 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 21.2% | #1,099 of 1,139 | #104 of 105 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 446 | #453 of 1,630 | #58 of 126 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.9:1 | #698 of 1,424 | #36 of 118 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.2% | #107 of 1,424 | #8 of 118 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 77.8% | #398 of 1,563 | #35 of 123 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.4% | #391 of 979 | #21 of 75 |
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 446 | 28 | 15.9:1 | 78% (347) |
| 2023-24 | 467 | 26 | 18.0:1 | 86% (402) |
| 2022-23 | 451 | 31 | 14.6:1 | 84% (379) |
| 2020-21 | 422 | 26 | 16.2:1 | 80% (339) |
| 2017-18 | 527 | 28.5 | 18.5:1 | 86% (455) |
| 2015-16 | 578 | 28 | 20.6:1 | 87% (501) |
| 2010-11 | 433 | 23 | 18.8:1 | 77% (332) |
| 2000-01 | 444 | 24 | 18.5:1 | 34% (153) |
| 1990-91 | 466 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (527 to 446); teachers down 2% (28.5 to 28).
About Westview Elementary School
Westview Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in WARREN, Michigan, under Fitzgerald Public Schools. There are 446 students enrolled, covering kindergarten through 3. That puts enrollment 21% larger than the 369-student average for elementary schools in Michigan.
Westview Elementary School is part of a district of 6 schools: Fitzgerald Public Schools, with 2,259 students.
No group is above 50% at Westview Elementary School; the largest is Black, at 49%. It is also 23% Asian, 11% White, 10% multiracial, and 7% Hispanic. Macomb County's residents are about 13% Black, 36 points below the school's share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Westview Elementary School scores 68%.
Westview Elementary School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.9:1, with 28 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is in line with the 15.8:1 average for elementary schools in Michigan. The school has 78% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Macomb County is 52%.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Westview Elementary School is 8.7 points below the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 23.1% actual, 31.8% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Michigan.
American Community Survey estimates for Macomb County show that median household income comes to about $77,837, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 28% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 8%. The county's public schools total 236, with about 115,743 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, PD Chatterton Middle School, is about 0.4 miles. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 35.1%; Westview Elementary School's is 23.1%, ranking 4th of 4.
NCES describes the area around Westview Elementary School as City: Mid-size, meaning inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
By 2024-25, enrollment had risen to 446, from 422 in 2020-21.
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