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If you could change one rule at Westwood Elementary School, what would it be?
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Enrollment
605
Elementary
DISTRICT 610 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DALTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 130162000788
Westwood Elementary School
708 Trammell St, Dalton, GA 30720 · (706) 278-2809 · Whitfield County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL605 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 92% of Georgia public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Georgia public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.7:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
400 students
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 74%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 61 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 87 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 91 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 95 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 93 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 86 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 92 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (87) is 5% smaller than its 5th grade class (92).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 43% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Westwood Elementary School→Hammond Creek Middle School
Based on grade levels within Dalton Public Schools. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
50.3%
GA avg 40.1% . +9.5pp since 2021
Math
56.1%
GA avg 44.6% . +15.8pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are up about 10 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 16 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.3% | 56.1% |
| 2023-24 | 49.2% | 56.5% |
| 2022-23 | 45.0% | 53.2% |
| 2021-22 | 40.8% | 40.3% |
% Proficient or Distinguished, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Georgia Milestones. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
54.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.2%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Georgia's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Westwood Elementary School
Westwood Elementary School's state test result (54.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westwood Elementary School this school | 605 | 66.1% | 54.3% |
| Martin Elementary School Flowery Branch | 628 | 65.4% | 29.1% |
| Oak Grove Elementary School Acworth | 523 | 66.2% | 38.5% |
| Evansdale Elementary School Doraville | 504 | 64.1% | 39.8% |
| Friendship Elementary School Buford | 673 | 62.7% | 35.7% |
| Brookwood Elementary School Dalton | 688 | 56.3% | 49.0% |
Matched among Georgia elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Westwood Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Whitfield County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.3% | #268 of 1,208 | #2 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 56.1% | #305 of 1,215 ▲ 2 | #4 of 19 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.3% | #272 of 1,215 ▲ 69 | #1 of 19 ▲ 4 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +12.7pp | #66 of 1,183 | #2 of 19 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 605 | #586 of 1,324 | #4 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.8:1 | #480 of 1,301 | #14 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.5% | #427 of 1,301 | #1 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.1% | #872 of 1,312 | #18 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.9% | #322 of 386 | N/A |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
605
+27 (+5%) vs 2020
+5% since 1990-91, when it was 577
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
was 13.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 605 | 47.1 | 12.8:1 | 66% (400) |
| 2023-24 | 596 | 45.5 | 13.1:1 | 65% (387) |
| 2022-23 | 579 | 44.7 | 12.9:1 | 64% (370) |
| 2020-21 | 578 | 44 | 13.1:1 | 47% (272) |
| 2017-18 | 588 | 40 | 14.7:1 | 53% (310) |
| 2015-16 | 603 | 38 | 15.9:1 | 50% (301) |
| 2010-11 | 540 | 33 | 16.4:1 | 53% (288) |
| 2000-01 | 682 | 45 | 15.2:1 | 41% (278) |
| 1990-91 | 577 | 38 | 15.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Westwood Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 3% (588 to 605); teachers up 18% (40 to 47.1).
About Westwood Elementary School
Westwood Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school with an address in Dalton, Georgia. The school serves pre-K through 5. Enrollment is 605 students.
Dalton Public Schools runs Westwood Elementary School along with 9 other schools, enrolling 7,619 students in total.
Hispanic students are 51% of those enrolled at Westwood Elementary School. The rest of enrollment is 35% White, 8% Black, 3% Asian, and 3% multiracial. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Whitfield County's population at about 37%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 62%.
Its staff includes 47.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 12.8 students per teacher. It is about the same as the 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia. Westwood Elementary School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 66%. The average for public schools in Whitfield County is 83%.
On the allk12 Grade, Westwood Elementary School lands at A, ahead of 92% of Georgia public elementary schools.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for Westwood Elementary School is 43.2%, and its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 54.3%.
In Whitfield County, home to about 103,598 people, median household income comes to about $67,070, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 20%, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. There are 33 public schools in the county, enrolling about 19,570, Westwood Elementary School among them.
City Park Elementary School is about 0.6 miles from Westwood Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around Westwood Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. The school's 54.3% average proficiency ranks 1st among 9 nearby schools.
Locale: City: Small. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 605, compared with 578 in 2020-21.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Whitfield County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
103,598
Census ACS
Median income
$67,070
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
20%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
33
19,570 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Dalton Public Schools
- Dalton High SchoolHigh · 1,919 students
- Hammond Creek Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,057 students
- City Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 707 students
- Brookwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 688 students
- Blue Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 632 students
- Park Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 604 students
Other schools in Dalton
- Dalton High SchoolHigh · 1,919 students
- Southeast Whitfield County High SchoolHigh · 1,453 students
- Hammond Creek Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,057 students
- Coahulla Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,041 students
- North Whitfield Middle SchoolMiddle · 731 students
- City Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 707 students
Other Westwood Elementary schools
36 other US public schools in 20 states are named Westwood Elementary. Westwood Elementary School is the 6th largest of the 37.
- WESTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLGREENWOOD, AR · 839 students
- Westwood ElementarySan Diego, CA · 832 students
- Westwood Elementary SchoolStillwater, OK · 626 students
- Westwood ElementaryDe Pere, WI · 623 students
- Westwood Elementary SchoolPHOENIX, AZ · 614 students
Nearby schools
- City Park Elementary School0.6 mi · 707
- Dalton High School0.6 mi · 1,919
- Blue Ridge Elementary School1.2 mi · 632
- Roan Elementary School1.5 mi · 421
- Park Creek Elementary School1.7 mi · 604
- Brookwood Elementary School1.8 mi · 688
Frequently asked questions
About Westwood Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Westwood Elementary School?
Westwood Elementary School enrolls approximately 605 students in grades PK-05.
Is Westwood Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Westwood Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Westwood Elementary School?
Approximately 12.8:1 students per teacher at Westwood Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Westwood Elementary School?
At Westwood Elementary School, the student body is approximately 35% White, 51% Hispanic, 8% Black, 3% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Westwood Elementary School public or private?
Westwood Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Dalton Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.