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WESTWIND EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 42 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are down about 1 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 10 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About WESTWIND EL
WESTWIND EL operates as a mid-tier elementary school in LUBBOCK, Texas, one of the schools within FRENSHIP ISD. Current enrollment sits at 613 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.
Within FRENSHIP ISD, which oversees 14 schools and 11,770 students, WESTWIND EL is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, WESTWIND EL records that 63% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder consists of 23% White, 5% Black, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 36%.
On the income-and-resources front, WESTWIND EL reports 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.6:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 54% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, WESTWIND EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.2%, the actual is 40.2%, a residual of -10.0 points.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Lubbock County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $64,155 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Lubbock County runs 110 public schools (combined enrollment of about 52,301 students), of which WESTWIND EL is one.
Nearest neighbor: HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - LUBBOCK, around 0.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WESTWIND EL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 48.5%.
The school occupies a high-density site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WESTWIND EL has grew 4%, going from 590 students in 2018 to 613 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 30% to 23% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 today.
Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for WESTWIND EL typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Lubbock County at a glance
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