Westgate Elem School, Arlington Heights IL

Original Research by School Decision on Westgate Elem School

Westgate Elementary sits in Arlington Heights, a Chicago northwest suburb anchored by a transit-oriented downtown and surrounded by established residential neighborhoods. The school serves kindergarten through fifth grade and has an enrollment of roughly that size for an elementary school spanning those grades.

Academic performance at Westgate shows mixed results across the subjects tested. In mathematics, proficiency rates on Illinois's state assessment vary by grade. Third and fourth graders show stronger performance, with solid majorities meeting or exceeding proficiency standards; fifth graders show a noticeable dip. In English language arts, third grade is the softest area, with about half the class meeting proficiency, while fourth and fifth graders perform better. Science proficiency in fifth grade is modest. Overall, when proficiency rates across all tested subjects and grades are averaged, Westgate ranks in the top quartile among schools across Cook County, a meaningful strength. The school maintains very high assessment participation rates, with nearly all tested students taking the exams in each grade.

The student body is predominantly white, with Asian and Hispanic students each representing a meaningful but smaller share of enrollment. Data on free-or-reduced-price lunch eligibility and English learner status were not available, so a parent may want to ask the school directly about the economic and linguistic profile. The school does not report students identified under special education or the count and rate of English learners, limiting visibility into those populations.

Westgate opened as a regular public school and remains one among a cohort of six elementary schools in Arlington Heights SD 25, each serving the same grade band. The district recently approved and implemented full-day kindergarten beginning in the 2024-2025 school year, a structural change from prior half-day programming that affects any family with young children entering the school. That expansion was funded by a narrow voter-approved bond referendum in 2022 and carries a modest annual property tax increase, a durable financial commitment families make when choosing the district.

Arlington Heights itself is a built-out suburb with strong civic anchors: two Metra commuter rail stations, over fifty parks and facilities run by the Park District, and a downtown core of shops, restaurants, and apartments centered on transit and redevelopment. The housing market in the zip code shows moderate home values and rental rates typical for Chicago's northwest suburbs, with recent modest appreciation in home prices year over year. Major employers locally include healthcare systems, Amazon, United Airlines, and consumer goods companies, alongside smaller professional and retail services. The community is actively engaged in growth, with several downtown infill projects underway and a large former racetrack site undergoing long-term redevelopment planning.

No data on attendance, discipline, special program offerings, or staff were available for Westgate, so families should consult the school and district websites and speak with administrators to understand the full picture of classroom structure, support services, and extracurricular life.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 370%

School 70% · District 74% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▲ 24 pts above state median · ▲ 31 pts above county median

Grade 468%

School 68% · District 73% · ▼ 5 pts below district

▲ 31 pts above state median · ▲ 39 pts above county median

Grade 562%

School 62% · District 66% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▲ 32 pts above state median · ▲ 40 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 358%

School 58% · District 69% · ▼ 11 pts below district

▲ 14 pts above state median · ▲ 21 pts above county median

Grade 471%

School 71% · District 75% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▲ 23 pts above state median · ▲ 31 pts above county median

Grade 573%

School 73% · District 76% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▲ 20 pts above state median · ▲ 27 pts above county median

Science

Grade 559%

School 59% · District 67% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▲ 22 pts above state median · ▲ 32 pts above county median

This schoolArlington Heights SD 25, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.