WestWood Elementary

Located at 5370 WESTWOOD DR, in PRIOR LAKE, Minnesota, WestWood Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school that caters to 505 students (grades K through 5), run under Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools. That puts it 47% above the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 344 students.

Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools comprises 14 schools with combined enrollment of 8,788 students; WestWood Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WestWood Elementary reports that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 8% multiracial, 7% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 5% Black.

On the resource side, WestWood Elementary reports 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Around 20% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, WestWood Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.5%, the actual is 60.1%, a residual of +5.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, Scott County reports that the typical household earns roughly $119,314 per year, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Across Scott County's 66 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,041 students), WestWood Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Edgewood School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, WestWood Elementary comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 54.8%.

WestWood Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. WestWood Elementary's enrollment has shrank 13% since 2018, when it stood at 579 (now 505). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 today.

On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.