Westwood Elementary School

Westwood Elementary School, a modestly sized elementary-level community in Coker, Alabama, overseen by Tuscaloosa County, works with 299 students, covering grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 38% leaner than the state mean of about 480.

Westwood Elementary School is one of 35 schools operated by Tuscaloosa County, a district that works with 19,278 students overall.

Demographically, Westwood Elementary School shows that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 9% Hispanic, 6% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Tuscaloosa County as a whole is about 60% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Westwood Elementary School shows 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Westwood Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 39% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Tuscaloosa County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Westwood Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.8%; this one delivers 69.0%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Tuscaloosa County) logs that median household income runs about $66,231, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Tuscaloosa County's 58 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,508 students), Westwood Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Flatwoods Elementary School, around 3.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Westwood Elementary School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 37.8%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 7%: 322 students in 2018 compared to 299 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 in 2025.

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