Elementary Schools in Western School Corporation

Elementary schools in Western School Corporation consist of two schools in Russiaville, Indiana — Western Primary School serving grades K–2 with 527 students, and Western Intermediate School serving grades 3–5 with 622 students — together enrolling 1,149 elementary students on what appears to be a shared campus with a deliberate grade-band split.

Because Western Intermediate School is the only school serving the tested grades, it is the only one with state test results. Its clearest strength is math: all-grade math proficiency was 50.66%, above the district's 46.08%, and grade-level math beat the state in 3rd grade (56.38% vs. 51.9%) and 5th grade (46.35% vs. 42.0%). Third-grade ELA also came in above state at 45.74% versus 40.8%. The soft spots are upper grades and science: 4th grade ELA was 2.82 percentage points below state, 5th grade ELA 6.78 points below, 4th grade science 7.07 points below, and 5th grade social studies 8.14 points below — a sharp reversal from the prior year, when social studies was above state. Science also dropped 8.35 points year over year, from 45.08% to 36.73%. Attendance is a bright spot: Western Intermediate's chronic absenteeism of 9.6% is well below the district's 13.7% and the state's 16.7%.

Western Primary School has no test data because it serves K–2, so its academic impact cannot be judged here. What parents can compare is resources and attendance: it spends $10,654 per student versus $8,908 at Intermediate (about 19.6% more), has a slightly lower student-teacher ratio (14.8 versus 15.3), but shows a higher free/reduced lunch rate (44.4% vs. 38.26%) and higher absenteeism (11.6% vs. 9.6%) — still better than district and state. One caution: the district ranks at the 80th percentile with 4 stars, yet Western Intermediate's school rank slipped from the 63rd percentile in 2023–2024 to 57th to 52nd in 2025–2026, suggesting the district's reputation may be carried by other grade levels.