West Wind Elementary

West Wind Elementary is one of the large elementary campuss in Lancaster, California, operated by Lancaster Elementary, with 757 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 63% above the state mean of about 465.

Lancaster Elementary runs 23 schools in total, collectively educating 13,765 students. West Wind Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, West Wind Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 63% of enrollment. Other groups include 15% Black, 9% White, 7% multiracial, 5% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 26.1:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 76% of students at West Wind Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, West Wind Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.2%; this one delivers 33.1%.

Around the school, census data for Los Angeles County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which West Wind Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is SOAR High (Students On Academic Rise), roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, West Wind Elementary comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 24.3%.

West Wind Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. West Wind Elementary's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 747 (now 757). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 46% to 63%. Class-load math has fell: from 28.7:1 in 2018 to 26.1:1 in 2025.

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