Public school / Middle
Westwood Middle School
Spokane, Washington
- NCES ID
- 530123003428
- District
- Cheney School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Westwood Middle School is a public middle school in Spokane, Washington, run by Cheney School District. It enrols 585 students — the 28125th largest of 2,574 public schools in Washington.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
585
Teachers
33.0
Students per teacher
17.7
Free or reduced-price lunch
61.4%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Cheney School District
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Cheney High School1,476 students
- 2Cheney Middle School626 students
- 3Windsor Elementary592 students
- 4Sunset Elementary588 students
- 5Westwood Middle School585 students
- 6Phil Snowdon Elementary549 students
- 7Betz Elementary534 students
- 8Salnave Elementary309 students
- Enrollment+47.4%
- Teachers+26.9%
- Students per teacher+7.3%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+14.8%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory