West View Elementary

West View Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack primary school in Spartanburg, South Carolina, part of Spartanburg 06. The school enrolls 644 students in grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 526 students per school, that is 22% bigger than typical.

Across the 14 schools in Spartanburg 06 (11,714 students total), West View Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, West View Elementary records that the largest single group is Black at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 29% White, 19% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Spartanburg County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, West View Elementary has 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.1:1. That tracks the state average closely.

In the broader community, census data for Spartanburg County shows median household income runs about $66,234, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Spartanburg County runs 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 58,477 students), of which West View Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: GREEN Charter School Spartanburg, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at West View Elementary has shrank 23%, going from 833 students in 2018 to 644 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 36% to 29% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

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