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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