Westside High School

Westside High School is a senior high of moderately sized scale in Augusta, Georgia, run under Richmond County, instructing 1,088 students in grades 9 through 12.

Across the 52 schools in Richmond County (30,573 students total), Westside High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Westside High School reports that 77% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school lists 9% White, 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 56%.

On the income-and-resources front, Westside High School lists 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.2:1, putting Westside High School higher than the state norm the norm. About 85% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Westside High School is in the bottom 10% of Georgia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 33.4%; Westside High School posts 7.9%, -25.5 points below that line.

In the broader community, census data for Richmond County shows median household income runs about $55,637, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. In all, Richmond County runs 58 public schools (combined enrollment of about 31,674 students), of which Westside High School is one.

Warren Road Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Westside High School. On composite proficiency, Westside High School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 24.9%.

Westside High School operates from an inner-city location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 47%: 741 students in 2018 compared to 1,088 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 31% to 9% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 19.5:1 in 2025.

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