Westerly Elementary School

Set in Bay Village, Ohio, Westerly Elementary School is a mid-tier elementary campus, one of the schools within Bay Village City. It teaches 374 students across grades 3 through 4.

Across the 5 schools in Bay Village City (2,331 students total), Westerly Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Westerly Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). Beyond that, the school shows 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 58% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Westerly Elementary School has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. About 11% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Cuyahoga County (around 27%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Westerly Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 84.8%, the actual is 91.7%, a residual of +6.9 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Cuyahoga County shows median household earnings sit near $64,468, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Westerly Elementary School is one of 352 public schools in Cuyahoga County (combined enrollment of about 155,924 students).

Bay High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Westerly Elementary School comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 86.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Westerly Elementary School's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 367 (now 374). Class-load math has widened: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Westerly Elementary School community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.