Westerly Elementary School

Westerly Elementary School is a grades 3–4 school with 374 students in Bay Village, Ohio, a lakeside suburb west of Cleveland, and it is part of the highly ranked Bay Village City district. That district ranks 9th of 773 districts statewide (99th percentile, 5 stars), and Westerly Elementary School is consistently elite within it: in 2025–2026 it ranked 33rd of 1,560 Ohio elementary schools, placing in the 98th percentile with 5 stars. Because the district's Normandy Elementary School serves grades K–2, Westerly is effectively Bay Village's tested upper-elementary building.

Academically, Westerly sits at the top of its nearby group. Its 2025–2026 Ohio State Test proficiency rates — 92.7% in grade 3 math, 95.4% in grade 4 math, 92.7% in grade 3 ELA and 91.8% in grade 4 ELA — average about 93.2%, roughly 29.5 percentage points above the state average for the same grades and subjects. That leads every comparable nearby school, including Redwood Elementary School (about 88.7%), Eastview Elementary School (about 84.4%), Avon Heritage Elementary School (about 82.5%) and Westlake Elementary School (about 81.7%). Chronic absenteeism is another differentiator at 4.3%, below the district's 7.5% and lower than every nearby school except Normandy (2.4%).

Westerly serves a relatively low-poverty population (10.7% free/reduced lunch in 2024–2025), spends a mid-range $11,867 per student and has a 17.0 student/teacher ratio — yet its outcomes outpace higher-spending neighbors such as Westlake Elementary, Maple Elementary School and Pine Intermediate School. Its reported subgroup results are also top-tier, including 98th-percentile statewide ranks for low-income students (27th of 1,467) and special education students (20th of 914) in 2025–2026. Watch items are minor: free/reduced lunch has risen from 6.12% to 10.7%, and chronic absenteeism ticked up from 2.5% to about 4.3–4.5%.