Westside Elementary

Westside Elementary is a 6-8 campus of moderately sized scale in Smithfield, Virginia, part of Isle of Wight County Public Schools, educateing 682 students in grades 4 through 6.

Within Isle of Wight County Public Schools, which oversees 9 schools and 5,519 students, Westside Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Westside Elementary logs that 52% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 29% Black, 10% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. By comparison, Isle of Wight County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. An estimated 39% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Isle of Wight County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Westside Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 77.6%, the actual is 72.6%, a residual of -4.9 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Isle of Wight County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $95,241 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Westside Elementary is one of 9 public schools in Isle of Wight County (combined enrollment of about 5,519 students).

Hardy Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.8 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Westside Elementary at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 70.6%.

Westside Elementary operates from an outlying location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Westside Elementary has fell 16%, going from 811 students in 2018 to 682 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 57% to 52% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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