Elementary · Illinois
West Elementary School
Free meals for allWest Elementary School, a public elementary school in Alton, Illinois: grades 2–5, 407 students, 13.3 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Alton CUSD 11.
Size and class size
Compared with elementary schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 407
- Teachers (FTE)
- 30.7
- Students per teacher
- 13.3
- Grades
- 2–5
- Elementary
More students per teacher than 52% of elementary schools in Illinois
Median 13.1 · 2,311 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 64% of elementary schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared
Larger than 59% of elementary schools in Illinois
Median 365 · 2,319 schools compared
Smaller than 52% of elementary schools in the US
Median 415 · 51,933 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Elementary · Grades 2–5
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Small suburb
- Run by
- Alton CUSD 11
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Alton CUSD 11.
Location
- Address
- 1513 State St, Alton, IL 62002
- Phone
- (618)463-2134
- City or town
- Alton
- County
- Madison County
Nearby elementary schools
The closest public elementary schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Eunice Smith Elem SchoolFree meals for all | K–2 | 188 | 13.6 |
Lovejoy Elem SchoolFree meals for all | K–2 | 230 | 12.8 |
Gilson Brown Elem SchoolFree meals for all | K–1 | 176 | 11.0 |
East Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | 3–5 | 415 | 13.0 |
North Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | 2–5 | 549 | 16.1 |
Lewis & Clark Elem SchoolFree meals for all | K–1 | 251 | 13.0 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
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NCES 170360004116