Enrollment
317
Elementary
DISTRICT 396 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TEXARKANA ISD·NCES 484248004848
Westlawn Elementary School
410 WESTLAWN DR, TEXARKANA, TX 75501 · (903) 223-4252 · Bowie County
GRADES 03–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL317 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 0% of Texas public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- FThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.3:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.8:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
297 students
DISTRICT 77% · STATE 65%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 111 | 35% |
| Grade 4 | 107 | 34% |
| Grade 5 | 99 | 31% |
Student demographics
33%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Westlawn Elementary School→Texas Middle School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within TEXARKANA ISD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
15.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +2.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
7.0%
TX avg 45.3% . -12.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 15 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 7 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 2 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 12 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 5.0% | 10.0% | 23.0% | 62.0% |
| Mathematics | 2.0% | 5.0% | 12.0% | 81.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 15.0% | 7.0% |
| 2024-25 | 10.0% | 9.0% |
| 2023-24 | 9.0% | 8.0% |
| 2022-23 | 38.0% | 38.0% |
| 2021-22 | 13.0% | 27.0% |
| 2020-21 | 13.0% | 19.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of TX schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
8.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.7%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-25.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 8% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 34% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Westlawn Elementary School
Westlawn Elementary School's state test result (8.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westlawn Elementary School this school | 317 | 93.7% | 8.4% |
| Reynolds Elementary School HOUSTON | 301 | 93.4% | 26.8% |
| Meyerpark Elementary School HOUSTON | 296 | 95.9% | 29.9% |
| Codwell Elementary School HOUSTON | 342 | 95.3% | 28.4% |
| Theron Jones Early Literacy Center TEXARKANA | 329 | 97.9% | N/A |
| Bruce Elementary School HOUSTON | 285 | 96.8% | 27.9% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Westlawn Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Bowie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 8.4% | #4,399 of 4,401 | #16 of 16 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 7.0% | #4,462 of 4,466 ▼ 6 | #17 of 17 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 15.0% | #4,458 of 4,466 ▲ 3 | #17 of 17 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -27.0pp | #25 of 3,998 | #1 of 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 317 | #4,095 of 4,938 | #15 of 22 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.3:1 | #47 of 4,622 | #2 of 20 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 32.6% | #3,336 of 4,628 | #16 of 20 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 93.7% | #666 of 4,789 | #5 of 20 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.6% | #2,157 of 2,838 | #9 of 14 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
317
-18 (-5%) vs 2020
-36% since 1990-91, when it was 494
Student : Teacher
10.3:1
was 12.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 317 | 30.8 | 10.3:1 | 94% (297) |
| 2023-24 | 342 | 30.3 | 11.3:1 | 94% (322) |
| 2022-23 | 346 | 36.1 | 9.6:1 | 96% (331) |
| 2020-21 | 335 | 28 | 12.0:1 | 92% (307) |
| 2017-18 | 347 | 34.3 | 10.1:1 | 95% (328) |
| 2015-16 | 344 | 30 | 11.5:1 | 95% (328) |
| 2010-11 | 385 | 25 | 15.4:1 | 94% (361) |
| 2000-01 | 376 | 23 | 16.4:1 | 85% (320) |
| 1990-91 | 494 | 25 | 19.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Westlawn Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (347 to 317); teachers down 10% (34.3 to 30.8).
About Westlawn Elementary School
Westlawn Elementary School is a small elementary school in TEXARKANA, Texas, one of the schools in TEXARKANA ISD. The school has 317 students in 2024-25 across grades 3 through 5. That compares with an average of about 519 students for elementary schools in Texas.
The TEXARKANA ISD system has 13 schools and 7,269 students.
A large majority of enrollment at Westlawn Elementary School is Black, at 81%. It is also 9% Hispanic, 6% White, and 3% multiracial. Bowie County's residents are about 25% Black, 57 points below the school's share. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 33%.
Westlawn Elementary School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.3:1, with 30.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, elementary schools in Texas average 15.1:1. The school has 94% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Bowie County report 68%.
Among Texas public elementary schools, Westlawn Elementary School outscored 0%, which works out to an F on the allk12 Grade.
Westlawn Elementary School trails its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results by 25.2 points (8.4% versus 33.7%), a bottom-10% result in Texas on BeatsExpectations.
The school is in Bowie County, where the median household earns about $59,803 a year, about 24% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 12%. Westlawn Elementary School shares Bowie County with 45 other public schools.
Westlawn Elementary School is about 0.7 miles from Options Early Graduation High School, its nearest public school. Westlawn Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Westlawn Elementary School at 4th of 4.
Locale: City: Small. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment figures show a decline of 18 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. The number of students per teacher dropped from 12.0 to 10.3 over 4 years.
Anyone can start a thread about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures at Westlawn Elementary School. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Bowie County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
92,115
Census ACS
Median income
$59,803
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
46
17,523 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in TEXARKANA ISD
- Texas High SchoolHigh · 1,750 students
- Texas Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,421 students
- Nash Elementary SchoolElementary · 667 students
- Wake Village Elementary SchoolElementary · 539 students
- Digital Academy of TexasHigh · 471 students
- Highland Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 427 students
Other schools in TEXARKANA
- Texas High SchoolHigh · 1,750 students
- Texas Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,421 students
- Pleasant Grove High SchoolHigh · 821 students
- Liberty-Eylau Middle SchoolMiddle · 594 students
- Liberty-Eylau High SchoolHigh · 543 students
- Pleasant Grove Middle SchoolMiddle · 537 students
Other Westlawn Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Westlawn Elementary. Westlawn Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Westlawn ElementaryFalls Church, VA · 789 students
- Westlawn ElementaryCedarburg, WI · 297 students
Nearby schools
- Options Early Graduation High School0.7 mi · 61
- Theron Jones Early Literacy Center0.8 mi · 329
- Paul Laurence Dunbar Early Education Center1.2 mi · 265
- Texas Middle School1.4 mi · 1,421
- Premier H S of Texarkana1.6 mi · 88
- Texas High School1.6 mi · 1,750
Frequently asked questions
About Westlawn Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Westlawn Elementary School?
Westlawn Elementary School enrolls approximately 317 students in grades 03-05.
What grades does Westlawn Elementary School serve?
Westlawn Elementary School serves grades 03-05.
How many teachers does Westlawn Elementary School have?
Westlawn Elementary School employs 31 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.3:1.
How diverse is Westlawn Elementary School?
Westlawn Elementary School reports a student body of 6% White, 9% Hispanic, 81% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Westlawn Elementary School public or private?
Westlawn Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by TEXARKANA ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.