Glenbard West High School

Glenbard West High School is a big high school in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, one of the schools within Glenbard Twp HSD 87. The school serves 2,330 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 834 students each, so Glenbard West High School sits 179% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Glenbard Twp HSD 87, which oversees 4 schools and 7,810 students, Glenbard West High School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Glenbard West High School reports that the largest single group is White at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 25% Hispanic, 14% Asian, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, DuPage County as a whole is about 65% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 130 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 29% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Glenbard West High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.9%, the actual is 61.2%, a residual of +6.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for DuPage County shows the typical household earns roughly $112,096 per year, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across DuPage County's 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,557 students), Glenbard West High School is one campus in the mix.

Benjamin Franklin Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Glenbard West High School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 54.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Glenbard West High School has remained close to its prior level, going from 2,373 students in 2018 to 2,330 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 17% to 25% over that span.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.