School nickname: Warriors
Phone: (806) 766-2088
Address:
7508 Albany Ave.
Lubbock, TX 79424
School website.
Principal: Joe Williams
Grades: K-06
Students: 716
Teachers: 45
Feeds: Irons Junior High School
Academic Excellence Indicator System report.

Whiteside Elementary School was built in 1983.

The school has 40 classrooms, a library and two gyms.

The school has two computer labs that include Dell and Macintosh computers, with 15 computers dedicated for Accelerated Reading tests. The school has three Internet access locations.

The library maintains 6,000 books.

The Whiteside Parent Teacher Association is very involved, according to school officials, and the caliber of students draws support from family relations and neighbors in the school zone.

The school supports a Jump Rope for the Heart fund-raiser each year, and has a science program unique to the regular academic curriculum, a school official said.

Whiteside students are involved in Future Problem Solving and Destination Imagination programs.

The campus received exemplary ratings by the Texas Education Agency for several years in a row.