Westgate Alternative Elementary School

Columbus, Ohio, is home to Westgate Alternative Elementary School, a small elementary school. It has an enrollment of 279 students in pre-K through 5. Elementary schools in Ohio average about 404 students, which makes this school 31% below average.

Columbus City Schools District oversees Westgate Alternative Elementary School and 114 other schools, with 46,249 students in total.

Of every 100 students at Westgate Alternative Elementary School, about 50 are White, the largest group. Other students are 22% Black, 14% multiracial, and 13% Hispanic. That is lower than the 59% White share among all Franklin County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 67%.

Westgate Alternative Elementary School has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 18.6:1. The school's 18.6:1 compares with an average of 17.9:1 for elementary schools in Ohio.

For the population of Franklin County, the median household earns about $75,176 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 42% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 11%. Across Franklin County, 402 public schools serve about 195,359 students.

Of the public schools around it, Westgate Alternative Elementary School is closest to West High School, about 0.4 miles away. Westgate Alternative Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles.

The school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (City: Large).

Since 2020-21, enrollment has grown 6%, from 264 to 279. By 2024-25, the school had 18.6 students per teacher, compared with 15.5 in 2020-21.

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