WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a small elementary school in CLEWISTON, Florida, part of HENDRY. Current enrollment sits at 480 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 21% leaner than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

Within HENDRY, which oversees 13 schools and 13,430 students, WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 63% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school logs 19% Black, 16% White.

On the resource side, WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 78% of students at WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Hendry County (around 64%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks in the top 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 42.3%; WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 57.9%, +15.6 points above that line.

In the area at large, Hendry County reports that median household income runs about $56,393, roughly 12% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 19%. WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 16 public schools in Hendry County (combined enrollment of about 7,592 students).

Nearest neighbor: EASTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. On composite proficiency, WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 49.5%.

WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a town-based location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 8%: 519 students in 2018 compared to 480 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 19.2:1 today.

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