Westwood Elementary School

Set in Dalton, Georgia, Westwood Elementary School is a mid-sized K-5 school, operated by Dalton Public Schools. It works with 605 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Dalton Public Schools runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 7,619 students. Westwood Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Westwood Elementary School records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 35% White, 8% Black, 3% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Whitfield County as a whole is about 37% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 66% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Whitfield County's rate of about 83%.

After controlling for student poverty, Westwood Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 43.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 54.3%.

In the broader community, census data for Whitfield County shows the typical household earns roughly $67,070 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Whitfield County runs 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,570 students), of which Westwood Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: City Park Elementary School, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Westwood Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Westwood Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 31.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 3%: 588 students in 2018 compared to 605 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 46% to 35% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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