Westview Middle School

Size

Westview Middle School is the smallest of Riverview Gardens School District's 2 middle schools; its 524 students are 10.2% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 2.4 miles away with a median enrollment of 294; Westview Middle School is larger than most of them.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 7 with 196 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 142, against an average of 175 per grade. This year grade 8 has 24% fewer students than grade 6 (142 against 186). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 96.6% here and 96.6% across Riverview Gardens.

58.8% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 59.4% across Riverview Gardens and a median of 48.6% for Missouri middle schools. 54.6% are directly certified for free meals, meaning their families take part in programs such as SNAP or TANF, so no application was needed. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 42 full-time-equivalent teachers for 524 students, Westview Middle School has 12.5 students per teacher. At the median Missouri middle school ratio of 13, a school with 524 students would have about 40.3 teachers, so Westview Middle School has 1.7 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Missouri middle schools (13).

Location

Westview Middle School is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other middle school is Rose Johnson Jennings Junior High School, 1 miles away in Jennings School District. Within 10 miles there are 36 other middle schools, 12 of them within 5 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.