Westover Hills Elementary

Westover Hills Elementary is a primary school of compact scale in Richmond, Virginia, overseen by Richmond City Public Schools, works with 375 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 25% below the state mean of about 499.

Richmond City Public Schools comprises 47 schools with combined enrollment of 20,962 students; Westover Hills Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Westover Hills Elementary lists that the largest single group is Black, at 56% of enrollment. Other groups include 22% White, 17% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Richmond city as a whole is about 41% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Westover Hills Elementary logs 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Westover Hills Elementary is in the bottom 10% of Virginia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 61.1%; Westover Hills Elementary posts 43.5%, -17.6 points below that line.

In the area at large, Richmond city reports that the typical household earns roughly $64,587 per year, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Richmond city runs 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,253 students), of which Westover Hills Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Elizabeth D. Redd Elementary, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Westover Hills Elementary comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.2%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 16%: 446 students in 2018 compared to 375 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 85% to 56% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 today.

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