Westside Elementary

Set in Five Points, California, Westside Elementary is a tiny elementary-level community, overseen by Westside Elementary. It hosts 135 students across grades K through 8. That puts it 71% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Westside Elementary sits inside Westside Elementary, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Westside Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (98%). That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 64% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Fresno County (around 75%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Westside Elementary is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 41.1%; Westside Elementary posts 23.4%, -17.7 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Fresno County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $74,201 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Westside Elementary is one of 368 public schools in Fresno County (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students).

Nearest neighbor: Rio Del Rey High (Continuation), around 9.5 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Westside Elementary at 1st of 6; the average score across the group is 17.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Westside Elementary has shrank 38%, going from 219 students in 2018 to 135 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 21.9:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 today.

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