WESTRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

WESTRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary-level community of reasonably sized scale in ELKHORN, Nebraska, part of ELKHORN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, educateing 346 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 27% larger than the typical public school in Nebraska, which averages around 272 students.

Within ELKHORN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, which oversees 20 schools and 11,653 students, WESTRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WESTRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment. Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Douglas County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, WESTRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.0:1 average. Roughly 14% of students at WESTRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Douglas County (around 25%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WESTRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 71.6%; this one delivers 76.9%.

In the broader community, Douglas County reports that the typical household earns roughly $80,391 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Douglas County runs 207 public schools (combined enrollment of about 98,640 students), of which WESTRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is ELKHORN MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, WESTRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 78.4%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Five-year trend. WESTRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 338 (now 346). The White share of enrollment decreased from 86% to 79% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

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