Westside Elementary School

Located at 311 Westside Dr, in Douglas, Georgia, Westside Elementary School is a mid-tier elementary campus that instructs 625 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of Coffee County.

Coffee County runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 7,640 students. Westside Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Westside Elementary School lists that 49% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 25% Hispanic, 18% White, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 28% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.6:1. The state averages about 13.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Westside Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 34.5%, a residual of +8.8 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Coffee County put median household earnings sit near $50,683, 14% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 21%. Westside Elementary School is one of 12 public schools in Coffee County (combined enrollment of about 7,640 students).

Wiregrass Regional College and Career Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Westside Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 34.4%.

Westside Elementary School operates from a town-center location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Westside Elementary School has rose 7%, going from 583 students in 2018 to 625 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 28% to 18% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 in 2025.

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