Westwood Elementary School

Westwood Elementary School, a mid-tier primary school in PORTLAND, Michigan, one of the schools within Portland Public Schools, hosts 423 students, covering grades 3 through 5.

Across the 4 schools in Portland Public Schools (1,979 students total), Westwood Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Westwood Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%); the rest looks like 4% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 38% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Ionia County's rate of about 52%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Westwood Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Michigan public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 49.6%; Westwood Elementary School posts 37.3%, -12.3 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Ionia County put median household income runs about $75,611, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Ionia County's 30 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,506 students), Westwood Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Portland High School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Westwood Elementary School comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 50.9%.

Westwood Elementary School operates from a town-center location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Westwood Elementary School has declined 11%, going from 473 students in 2018 to 423 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 today.

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