The top reported proficiency rate is 59% in English language arts. The lowest is 38% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Westmoreland Elem
Westmoreland Elementary serves students from prekindergarten through fourth grade and is one of the schools in the Rock Creek school district, which covers this small Pottawatomie County seat and the surrounding area. The school sits within the town of Westmoreland, a community that functions as the county seat and mixes residential life with county government offices, local businesses, and a historic downtown anchored by the courthouse. The district office is also located in Westmoreland, while the high school sits on a separate campus roughly halfway between Westmoreland and the neighboring community of St. George. The town itself experienced a modest population decline in the most recent census, and in 2024 an EF3 tornado destroyed a number of homes, which will shape the local housing picture and rebuilding efforts for some time.
The student body is small, and the demographics are overwhelmingly white, with very small numbers of Hispanic students and students identifying as two or more races. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a measure that gives a sense of the economic backgrounds families bring to the school.
On state assessments, which are administered in third and fourth grades, the school’s performance sits above the midpoint among the districts in Pottawatomie County when looking at overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades. In third grade, more than half of students scored at the proficient level or above in both math and English language arts. By fourth grade, the math proficiency rate was lower, with fewer than half of students reaching that threshold. In English language arts, fourth graders performed at a higher level than the third graders did, with more than half scoring proficient or above. The school’s science results are not recent; the available data comes from a previous year for fifth graders, and since the school serves only through fourth grade, current fifth graders attend a different building, so those older results may not reflect the current program.
The school serves the early elementary grades only, so there is no graduation rate to report. The available data does not include information on chronic absenteeism, discipline, or staffing, and a parent may want to ask the school directly about those areas if they are important to their decision. Because the school is a primary-level building, program offerings such as advanced coursework or career pathways are not applicable here; those will be available at the middle and high school levels within the district.
The district itself has not had a recent bond election, curriculum change, or property-tax shift that could be confirmed from publicly reported sources, so the picture for families is one of stability in the district’s operations, at least as far as major parent-relevant changes go. Housing values in the area have risen notably in recent years, consistent with broader national trends, and the area’s unemployment rate tracks close to the national average.
Westmoreland Elementary is a small-town, early-grades school serving a predominantly white student body with a significant share of families facing economic challenges. Its state test results are generally solid, with ELA performance the stronger of the two subjects and math showing more variation by grade level. Families considering this school are likely looking at the broader Rock Creek district and the community of Westmoreland itself, a place with a quiet downtown, a recent natural disaster to factor in, and a set of schools that are physically split between the town and the highway midpoint.
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