Westside High School

Set in Macon, Georgia, Westside High School is an average-sized senior high, run under Bibb County. It instructs 1,013 students across grades 9 through 12.

Bibb County runs 35 schools in total, collectively educating 21,334 students. Westside High School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Westside High School reports that nearly all students (83%) are Black. The remainder comes out to 10% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 3% White. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

On the income-and-resources front, Westside High School shows 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.2:1, putting Westside High School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 62% of students at Westside High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Westside High School is in the bottom 10% of Georgia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 45.5%; Westside High School posts 8.0%, -37.6 points below that line.

Across the wider county, Bibb County reports that median household earnings sit near $51,234, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 20% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Westside High School is one of 41 public schools in Bibb County (combined enrollment of about 23,725 students).

Nearest neighbor: Weaver Middle School, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Westside High School. On composite proficiency, Westside High School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 18.9%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 11%: 1,137 students in 2018 compared to 1,013 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 3% to 10% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 19.1:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.