Summary
Westview Elementary is a 164-student public school serving prekindergarten through grade 5 in Olathe, Kansas, where nearby comparison schools serve the same grades. Its latest results are mixed: math is a clear strength, while science and fifth-grade English language arts (ELA) are concerns. The most important finding is that strong math results mask a sharp, sustained decline in science, which is now just below the state and well below nearby schools.
In 2025–26, 66% of Westview students were proficient in math—25 percentage points above Kansas, 8 above Olathe, and 12 above the nearby-school average; Westview ranked fourth of 10 local schools. Science proficiency was 38%, 8 points below the district and 10 below nearby schools on average. ELA was 53%, close to the nearby average, 7 points above the state, and 6 below the district. Fifth-grade ELA stands out: 45% were proficient, compared with 60% in fourth grade; the fifth-grade result was 19 points below the district. SchoolDigger’s statewide rankings also suggest especially strong relative performance for English Language Learner students, at the 99th percentile (rank 1 of 126), and Hispanic students, at the 90th percentile.
Science fell from 57% in 2022–23 to 38% in 2025–26, a 19-point decline; over the same period, math rose 6 points and ELA rose 11, though ELA dropped 8 points from the prior year. SchoolDigger ranks Westview 199th of 657 schools, at the 70th percentile with 3 stars—above the nearby-school midpoint, but down from the 78th percentile last year. Westview is also smaller than nearby schools (164 students versus a peer average of about 340) and has the lowest student–teacher ratio, 9.0 versus a nearby range of 9.7–16.3. Its 78% free/reduced-lunch rate is higher than every nearby school’s; these figures describe context, not the cause of its results.
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