West End Elementary School

West End Elementary School, a heavily attended elementary-level community in Rome, Georgia, overseen by Rome City, enrolls 1,005 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so West End Elementary School sits 66% above that benchmark.

Within Rome City, which oversees 8 schools and 6,357 students, West End Elementary School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, West End Elementary School records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (34%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 30% Black, 27% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Floyd County as a whole is about 12% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.2:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Floyd County (around 75%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, West End Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Georgia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 25.7%; West End Elementary School posts 43.2%, +17.5 points above that line.

In the broader community, census data for Floyd County shows the typical household earns roughly $65,565 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. West End Elementary School is one of 25 public schools in Floyd County (combined enrollment of about 15,383 students).

Alto Park Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, West End Elementary School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 38.9%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. West End Elementary School's enrollment has increased 23% since 2018, when it stood at 817 (now 1,005). Black enrollment moved from 24% to 30% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 in 2025.

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