WESTVIEW K-8

WESTVIEW K-8 is one of the sizable elementary schools in JACKSONVILLE, Florida, overseen by DUVAL, with 1,221 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 102% larger than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

Within DUVAL, which oversees 206 schools and 131,562 students, WESTVIEW K-8 is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, WESTVIEW K-8 logs that Black students make up the majority at 58%. The remainder is composed of 21% Hispanic, 13% White, 5% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 29%.

On the resource side, The school employs 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 58% of students at WESTVIEW K-8 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Duval County (around 47%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, WESTVIEW K-8 falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 52.0%; this one comes in at 37.2%, -14.8 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, census data for Duval County shows median household income runs about $71,277, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. WESTVIEW K-8 is one of 220 public schools in Duval County (combined enrollment of about 141,209 students).

The closest other public school is DUVAL CHARTER SCHOOL AT WESTSIDE, roughly 1.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WESTVIEW K-8 comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 38.4%.

WESTVIEW K-8 operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. WESTVIEW K-8's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 1,234 (now 1,221). White enrollment moved from 24% to 13% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 in 2025.

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