Westridge Elementary School

Westridge Elementary School is one of the moderately sized elementary schools in LITTLETON, Colorado, part of Jefferson County School District No. R-1, with 400 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Jefferson County School District No. R-1 comprises 148 schools with combined enrollment of 74,935 students; Westridge Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Westridge Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Around 15% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Jefferson County runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Westridge Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 57.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 63.1%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $110,656 per year, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Jefferson County runs 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,739 students), of which Westridge Elementary School is one.

Montessori Peaks Charter Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Westridge Elementary School at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 48.0%.

Westridge Elementary School operates from a suburban location.

Five-year trend. Westridge Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 19% since 2018, when it stood at 493 (now 400). Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 13% to 18%.

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