WESTRIDGE ELEM.

WESTRIDGE ELEM. operates as a reasonably sized primary school in BALLWIN, Missouri, part of ROCKWOOD R-VI. Current enrollment sits at 397 students spanning grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 315 students per school, that is 26% above typical.

ROCKWOOD R-VI comprises 30 schools with combined enrollment of 19,597 students; WESTRIDGE ELEM. is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WESTRIDGE ELEM. logs that 63% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school lists 13% Asian, 12% Black, 6% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with St. Louis County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, WESTRIDGE ELEM. has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting WESTRIDGE ELEM. higher than the state norm the norm. About 28% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, St. Louis County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, WESTRIDGE ELEM. sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.7%; this one delivers 69.8%.

In the surrounding community, census data for St. Louis County shows median household earnings sit near $82,936, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across St. Louis County's 275 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students), WESTRIDGE ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

CLAYMONT ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WESTRIDGE ELEM. ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 54.9%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WESTRIDGE ELEM. has decreased 9%, going from 434 students in 2018 to 397 in 2025.

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