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Enrollment
1,304
High
DISTRICT 1,022 · STATE 468
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DAVENPORT COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 190858000487
West High School
3505 W Locust St, Davenport, IA 52804 · (563) 723-5600 · Scott County
GRADES 09–12HIGH12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,304 STUDENTS
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Scored higher than 0% of Iowa public high schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Iowa public high schools
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
89 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.5:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
54%
710 students
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 41%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 271 | 21% |
| Grade 10 | 360 | 28% |
| Grade 11 | 319 | 24% |
| Grade 12 | 354 | 27% |
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 48% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
48.0%
IA avg 73.6% . +6.7pp since 2023
Math
39.0%
IA avg 70.9% . +7.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Iowa schools, those numbers are about 74 and 71. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 48.0% | 39.0% |
| 2023-24 | 41.3% | 31.3% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: ISASP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of IA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
38.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.7%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-26.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 65% typical for Iowa schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like West High School
West High School's state test result (38.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| West High School this school | 1,304 | 54.4% | 38.6% |
| Burlington Community High School Burlington | 1,016 | 49.3% | 48.7% |
| East High School Sioux City | 1,495 | 51.6% | 64.1% |
| Central High School Davenport | 1,288 | 49.2% | 51.1% |
| George Washington High School Cedar Rapids | 1,182 | 54.7% | 60.2% |
| Thomas Jefferson High School Council Bluffs | 1,146 | 54.8% | 48.3% |
Matched among Iowa high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where West High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Scott County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.6% | #311 of 313 | #6 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #311 of 314 ▲ 2 | #6 of 6 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 48.0% | #310 of 314 ▲ 3 | #6 of 6 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,304 | #31 of 340 | #3 of 7 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #136 of 259 | #1 of 7 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.9% | #24 of 260 | #4 of 7 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 54.4% | #34 of 320 | #2 of 7 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.9% | #15 of 125 | N/A |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,304
-141 (-10%) vs 2020
-14% since 1990-91, when it was 1,525
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 14.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,304 | 89.5 | 14.6:1 | 54% (710) |
| 2023-24 | 1,442 | 93.5 | 15.4:1 | 49% (713) |
| 2022-23 | 1,469 | 88.3 | 16.6:1 | 54% (799) |
| 2020-21 | 1,445 | 98 | 14.7:1 | 59% (848) |
| 2017-18 | 1,714 | 124.2 | 13.8:1 | 55% (950) |
| 2015-16 | 1,926 | 127 | 15.2:1 | 60% (1,152) |
| 2010-11 | 1,888 | 119 | 15.9:1 | 48% (897) |
| 2000-01 | 2,371 | 147 | 16.1:1 | 29% (688) |
| 1990-91 | 1,525 | 91 | 16.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for West High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 24% (1,714 to 1,304); teachers down 28% (124.2 to 89.5).
About West High School
West High School is a large high school in Davenport, Iowa, under Davenport Comm School District. It enrolls 1,304 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are 9 through 12. That is 179% larger than the average of about 468 students for high schools in Iowa.
West High School is part of Davenport Comm School District, where 27 schools serve 12,812 students.
The share of White students at West High School is 56%, a majority. It is also 16% Hispanic, 15% Black, 10% multiracial, and 2% Asian. For comparison, the population of Scott County is roughly 79% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 63, compared with 70 nationally.
West High School has 89.5 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.6:1. The gap from the 17.3:1 average for high schools in Iowa is 2.7 students per teacher. At West High School, 54% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. That is 16 points above the 38% average for public schools in Scott County.
Among Iowa public high schools, West High School outscored 0%, which works out to an F on the allk12 Grade.
Test results at West High School are 26.1 points below what its student poverty level predicts. The average proficiency rate across its state test results is 38.6%, compared with a predicted 64.7%, which ranks in the bottom 10% in Iowa.
Census data for Scott County show median household income comes to about $78,277, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 37%, and about 7% of people live in poverty. There are 53 public schools in the county, enrolling about 26,100, West High School among them.
Among nearby public schools, Wilson Elementary School is closest at about 0.3 miles. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of West High School. Among the 7 closest schools with test data, this one included, West High School ranks 6th on average proficiency.
West High School is coded as City: Mid-size in federal locale data.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 10%, from 1,445 to 1,304.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about open houses, carpools, and field trips at West High School. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Scott County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
174,608
Census ACS
Median income
$78,277
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
53
26,100 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Davenport Comm School District
- Central High SchoolHigh · 1,288 students
- North High SchoolHigh · 1,190 students
- Sudlow Middle SchoolMiddle · 734 students
- Wood Middle SchoolMiddle · 629 students
- Williams Middle SchoolMiddle · 577 students
- Wilson Elementary SchoolElementary · 507 students
Other schools in Davenport
- Central High SchoolHigh · 1,288 students
- North High SchoolHigh · 1,190 students
- Sudlow Middle SchoolMiddle · 734 students
- Wood Middle SchoolMiddle · 629 students
- Williams Middle SchoolMiddle · 577 students
- Wilson Elementary SchoolElementary · 507 students
Other West High schools
20 other US public schools in 11 states are named West High. West High School is the 13th largest of the 21.
- West High SchoolWaterloo, IA · 1,696 students
- West High SchoolSioux City, IA · 1,308 students
- West HighSALT LAKE CITY, UT · 2,503 students
- West HighMadison, WI · 2,222 students
- West HighBakersfield, CA · 2,159 students
Nearby schools
- Wilson Elementary School0.3 mi · 507
- Jackson Elementary School1.1 mi · 322
- Children's Village West1.3 mi · 296
- Frank L Smart Middle School1.4 mi · 430
- Williams Middle School1.6 mi · 577
- Adams Elementary School1.7 mi · 498
Frequently asked questions
About West High SchoolHow large is West High School?
West High School enrolls approximately 1,304 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does West High School serve?
West High School serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many teachers does West High School have?
West High School employs 89 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.6:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at West High School?
At West High School, the student body is approximately 56% White, 16% Hispanic, 15% Black, 2% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is West High School public or private?
West High School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Davenport Comm School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.