Westmont High School

Set in Westmont, Illinois, Westmont High School is an intimate secondary school, overseen by CUSD 201. It works with 395 students across grades 9 through 12. That puts it 53% smaller than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 834 students.

CUSD 201 comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,330 students; Westmont High School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Westmont High School reports that the largest single group is White at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 31% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 6% Black, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 65% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. An estimated 38% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Westmont High School ranks in the top 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 49.3%; Westmont High School posts 67.4%, +18.1 points above that line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for DuPage County indicate median household income runs about $112,096, 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), Westmont High School is one campus in the mix.

Westmont Jr High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

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

Five-year trend. Westmont High School's enrollment has shrank 10% since 2018, when it stood at 437 (now 395). White enrollment moved from 66% to 49% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.