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How has WESTSIDE K-8 SCHOOL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
1,496
Elementary
DISTRICT 791 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OSCEOLA·NCES 120147007628
WESTSIDE K-8 SCHOOL
2551 WESTSIDE BLVD, KISSIMMEE, FL 34747 · (407) 390-1748 · Osceola County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL1,496 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
18.7:1
80 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 30.7:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
38%
573 students
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 50%
Community
3
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
43.1%
FL avg 56.7% . +3.3pp since 2023
Math
43.2%
FL avg 58.9% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
45.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.0%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 62% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,496
-165 (-10%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
18.7:1
was 18.3:1
% White
16%
was 27%
% Hispanic
66%
was 59%
% Black
12%
was 9%
% Asian
1%
was 1%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About WESTSIDE K-8 SCHOOL
WESTSIDE K-8 SCHOOL is one of the big elementary campuss in KISSIMMEE, Florida, part of OSCEOLA, with 1,496 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 148% bigger than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.
OSCEOLA runs 83 schools in total, collectively educating 75,388 students. WESTSIDE K-8 SCHOOL is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, WESTSIDE K-8 SCHOOL shows that 66% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 16% White, 12% Black, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 56% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, WESTSIDE K-8 SCHOOL has 80 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting WESTSIDE K-8 SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 38% of students at WESTSIDE K-8 SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Osceola County's rate of about 52%.
After controlling for student poverty, WESTSIDE K-8 SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 62.0%; this one comes in at 45.8%, -16.2 points off the demographic line.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Osceola County) shows that median household earnings sit near $72,637, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Osceola County runs 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,164 students), of which WESTSIDE K-8 SCHOOL is one.
Nearest neighbor: BRIDGEPREP ACADEMY OF POLK, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, WESTSIDE K-8 SCHOOL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 45.7%.
The campus sits in an outlying setting.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 10%: 1,661 students in 2018 compared to 1,496 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 27% to 16%.
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Osceola County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
427,415
Census ACS
Median income
$72,637
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
30%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
88
74,164 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in OSCEOLA
- TOHOPEKALIGA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,929 students
- CELEBRATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,681 students
- HARMONY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,673 students
- ST. CLOUD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,596 students
- POINCIANA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,573 students
- OSCEOLA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,345 students
Other schools in KISSIMMEE
- TOHOPEKALIGA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,929 students
- POINCIANA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,573 students
- OSCEOLA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,345 students
- GATEWAY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,882 students
- RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT TAPESTRYElementary · 1,419 students
- LIBERTY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,362 students
Nearby schools
- BRIDGEPREP ACADEMY OF POLK0.7 mi · 613
- CITRUS RIDGE A CIVICS ACADEMY1.1 mi · 1,108
- FOUR CORNERS CHARTER SCHOOL1.6 mi · 1,103
- BELLA CITTA3.1 mi · 1,459
- FOUR CORNERS UPPER SCHOOL3.1 mi · 1,401
- LAKE POINTE ACADEMY3.4 mi · 985
Frequently asked questions
About WESTSIDE K-8 SCHOOLHow many students attend WESTSIDE K-8 SCHOOL?
WESTSIDE K-8 SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,496 students in grades PK-08.
Is WESTSIDE K-8 SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
WESTSIDE K-8 SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at WESTSIDE K-8 SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at WESTSIDE K-8 SCHOOL is approximately 18.7:1 (80 FTE teachers).
How diverse is WESTSIDE K-8 SCHOOL?
WESTSIDE K-8 SCHOOL reports a student body of 16% White, 66% Hispanic, 12% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees WESTSIDE K-8 SCHOOL?
WESTSIDE K-8 SCHOOL is overseen by OSCEOLA in Osceola County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.