Westwood Elementary

Set in Santa Clara, California, Westwood Elementary is a cozy elementary-level community, one of the schools within Santa Clara Unified. It educates 368 students across grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 21% leaner than the state mean of about 465.

Within Santa Clara Unified, which oversees 30 schools and 14,411 students, Westwood Elementary is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Westwood Elementary lists that 46% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 21% White, 20% Asian, 9% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Santa Clara County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Westwood Elementary has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.6:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 38% of students at Westwood Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Westwood Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 57.2%; this one delivers 54.0%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Santa Clara County indicate median household earnings sit near $164,281, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Santa Clara County's 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), Westwood Elementary is one campus in the mix.

C. W. Haman Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Westwood Elementary. On composite proficiency, Westwood Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 61.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Westwood Elementary has ticked down 7%, going from 394 students in 2018 to 368 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 31% to 21% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 24.5:1 in 2018 to 20.6:1 today.

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