# WESTWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/westwood-heights-elementary-school-fort-lauderdale

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120018000191`
- **School name**: WESTWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33312
- **Address**: 2861 SW 9TH ST
- **District**: BROWARD (LEAID `1200180`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 26.11138, -80.18214
- **Phone**: (754)323-7900

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 451
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 24
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 67.6%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: FL School Grade
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: A
- **Indicators**:
  - overall: A

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 82.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 44.7% (281 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.1% (21 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 5.5% (28 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 24.5% (125 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 10.7%
- **Black/African American**: 0.2%
- **Asian**: 86.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 73.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 23.3% — 119 students
- **English Learners**: 16.3% — 83 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Intellectual Disability**: 31 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 24 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 9 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,939
- **Federal share**: $3,095
- **State + local share**: $12,844
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,881,634
- **Federal share**: 19.2%
- **State share**: 31.2%
- **Local share**: 49.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,878,709

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $60,026
- **Poverty rate**: 13.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 7.3%
- **Unemployment**: 8.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,405
- **Foreign-born residents**: 36.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 15.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.3 miles (WINGATE ROAD MUNICIPAL INCINERATOR DUMP)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 44
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.19 miles (SISTRUNK BTW NW 15TH AVE AND 15 TERR)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: FORT LAUDERDALE, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-12-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.8067 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **RIVERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 3.23% (this school: 4.12%)
- **SUNED HIGH OF SOUTH BROWARD** — 0.4 mi away, 1.01% (this school: 4.12%)
- **UCP EARLY BEGINNINGS** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.12%)
- **NEW LIFE CHARTER ACADEMY** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.12%)
- **STRANAHAN HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 1.58% (this school: 4.12%)

### ela proficiency
- **STRANAHAN HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 59% (this school: 52.5%)
- **STEPHEN FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 63% (this school: 52.5%)
- **PLANTATION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.0 mi away, 57.5% (this school: 52.5%)
- **SUNLAND PARK ACADEMY** — 2.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 52.5%)
- **CROISSANT PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.4 mi away, 60.5% (this school: 52.5%)

### math proficiency
- **DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MONTESSORI ACADEMY** — 1.2 mi away, 68% (this school: 65%)
- **STEPHEN FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 79% (this school: 65%)
- **NORTH FORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 65%)
- **DILLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 68% (this school: 65%)
- **SUNLAND PARK ACADEMY** — 2.2 mi away, 74% (this school: 65%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/westwood-heights-elementary-school-fort-lauderdale
- **Performance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/westwood-heights-elementary-school-fort-lauderdale/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/westwood-heights-elementary-school-fort-lauderdale/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/westwood-heights-elementary-school-fort-lauderdale/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/westwood-heights-elementary-school-fort-lauderdale/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/westwood-heights-elementary-school-fort-lauderdale/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/westwood-heights-elementary-school-fort-lauderdale/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/westwood-heights-elementary-school-fort-lauderdale/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/westwood-heights-elementary-school-fort-lauderdale/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/westwood-heights-elementary-school-fort-lauderdale/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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