WESTGATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

WESTGATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a cozy elementary-level community in ST PETERSBURG, Florida, overseen by PINELLAS. The school instructs 498 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within PINELLAS, which oversees 151 schools and 87,955 students, WESTGATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, WESTGATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 47% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 28% Hispanic, 13% Black, 8% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Pinellas County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, WESTGATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 62% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Pinellas County (around 45%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, WESTGATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.2%, the actual is 58.5%, a residual of +8.3 points.

In the broader community, census data for Pinellas County shows median household income runs about $72,646, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Pinellas County runs 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,955 students), of which WESTGATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is NORTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WESTGATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, WESTGATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 55.0%.

WESTGATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a high-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. WESTGATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 16% since 2018, when it stood at 592 (now 498). Hispanic enrollment moved from 21% to 28% across the same window.

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