Westlake High School

Westlake High School operates as a mid-tier high school in Waldorf, Maryland, one of the schools within Charles County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 1,216 students spanning grades 9 through 12.

Charles County Public Schools comprises 38 schools with combined enrollment of 28,162 students; Westlake High School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Westlake High School records that 73% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 12% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 5% Asian, 3% White. By comparison, Charles County as a whole is about 49% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Westlake High School has 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.3:1, putting Westlake High School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 51% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Westlake High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 44.0%; this one comes in at 26.6%, -17.3 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Charles County put median household earnings sit near $122,816, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Charles County runs 40 public schools (combined enrollment of about 28,162 students), of which Westlake High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Billingsley Elementary School, around 1.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Westlake High School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 38.5%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 1,210 students in 2018 compared to 1,216 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 7% to 12%.

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