WESTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

WESTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school of average-sized scale in SPRINGDALE, Arkansas, part of SPRINGDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT, hosting 498 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within SPRINGDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 29 schools and 22,685 students, WESTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, WESTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 57%; the rest looks like 19% Pacific Islander, 19% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 19% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, WESTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.7:1. The state averages around 16.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 86% of students at WESTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Washington County's rate of about 58%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WESTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.3%, the actual is 19.6%, a residual of -7.7 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Washington County indicate median household income runs about $70,639, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Washington County runs 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,451 students), of which WESTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

SPRINGDALE HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WESTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 27.3%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. WESTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 17% since 2018, when it stood at 602 (now 498). The White share of enrollment fell from 24% to 19% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 17.7:1 in 2025.

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