WESTWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL

WESTWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL, a middle-of-the-pack middle-grades school in GAINESVILLE, Florida, run under ALACHUA, instructs 854 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

Across the 60 schools in ALACHUA (28,255 students total), WESTWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, WESTWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is White at 33%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 32% Black, 23% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Alachua County as a whole is about 61% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting WESTWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. About 48% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WESTWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 57.2%; this one delivers 43.1%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Alachua County) logs that median household income runs about $61,949, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. WESTWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 68 public schools in Alachua County (combined enrollment of about 29,618 students).

Nearest neighbor: LITTLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WESTWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, WESTWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 54.7%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. WESTWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 18% since 2018, when it stood at 1,039 (now 854). Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 13% to 23%. Class-load math has grew: from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 22.6:1 in 2025.

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