WESTMERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 6270 JOHNSTON RD, in ALBANY, New York, WESTMERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary-level community that instructs 528 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within GUILDERLAND CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Within GUILDERLAND CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 7 schools and 4,822 students, WESTMERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, WESTMERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is White, at 56% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 16% Asian, 13% Hispanic, 9% Black, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting WESTMERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 32% of students at WESTMERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Albany County (around 45%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, WESTMERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.4%, the actual is 58.3%, a residual of -5.1 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Albany County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $85,333 per year, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Albany County runs 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 39,946 students), of which WESTMERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: FARNSWORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 1.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WESTMERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 61.0%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 7%: 495 students in 2018 compared to 528 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 66% to 56% over that span.

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