Schools in Topeka, IN

Topeka, Indiana is served by three public schools covering kindergarten through 12th grade — Topeka Elementary School (K–4), Westview Elementary School (grades 5–6), and Westview Junior-Senior High School (grades 7–12) — all within the Westview School Corporation, which ranks 23rd of 374 Indiana districts at the 94th percentile with 5 stars. Total listed enrollment is 1,250 students, and the junior-senior high accounts for about 52% of that.

Each school has a distinct strength. Westview Junior-Senior High School is the academic anchor: it ranks 24 of 415 statewide (94th percentile, 5 stars), graduates 100% of its students versus the state's 89.7%, and posts SAT Math proficiency of 50.68% against the state's 25.6%. Its 7th- and 8th-grade ILEARN math scores run more than 23 points above state averages. Westview Elementary School is a math standout, with 5th-grade math at 78.81% (state: 42.0%) and the lowest chronic absenteeism in the group at 4.8%. Topeka Elementary School shows the clearest improvement, rising from the 64th to the 70th percentile and from 3 to 4 stars, with all-grade ELA up 11.77 points to 48.91%.

Across the area, attendance is a bright spot: every school sits far below the state's 16.7% chronic absenteeism rate — 4.8% at Westview Elementary, 7.5% at Topeka Elementary, and 9.0% at the junior-senior high. Science is the shared weak spot in the elementary and middle grades, where district proficiency fell from 61.59% to 49.19%, and 4th-grade science at Topeka Elementary (37.50%) trails the state's 43.8%; the high school's Biology EOC, by contrast, improved to 65.43%. Resource levels do not track neatly with results: Topeka Elementary has the highest per-student spending ($13,599) and the highest free/reduced lunch rate (43.55%), while Westview Elementary spends the least ($12,084) yet posts the strongest elementary and middle school math and ELA scores.