West Leyden High School

As a well-populated 9-12 campus in Northlake, Illinois, West Leyden High School instructs 1,687 students from grades 9 through 12, part of Leyden CHSD 212. Enrollment runs roughly 102% above the state mean of about 834.

Within Leyden CHSD 212, which oversees 2 schools and 3,527 students, West Leyden High School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, West Leyden High School lists that 86% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 9% White, 2% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

On the resource side, On paper, West Leyden High School has 117 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 59% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, West Leyden High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.7%, the actual is 32.3%, a residual of -5.4 points.

Around the school, Cook County reports that the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which West Leyden High School is one.

The closest other public school is Westdale Elem School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, West Leyden High School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 34.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. West Leyden High School's enrollment has edged up 7% since 2018, when it stood at 1,576 (now 1,687). Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 78% to 86%.

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