Westby Elementary

Westby Elementary operates as a medium-sized K-5 school in Westby, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Westby Area School District. Current enrollment sits at 277 students spanning grades pre-K through 4.

Westby Area School District runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 993 students. Westby Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Westby Elementary reports that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Vernon County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, Westby Elementary lists 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. Around 39% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Westby Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.7%, the actual is 55.3%, a residual of +1.6 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Vernon County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $71,893 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Vernon County runs 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,669 students), of which Westby Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Westby Middle, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Westby Elementary. On composite proficiency, Westby Elementary comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 58.9%.

Westby Elementary operates from an outlying location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 15%: 324 students in 2018 compared to 277 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Westby Elementary community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.