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Westwood High
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MCAS 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the MCAS, Massachusetts's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 77 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Massachusetts schools, those numbers are about 44 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 7 points since 2018, while math scores are down about 13 points.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Westwood High
Westwood High is one of the average-sized high schools in Westwood, Massachusetts, overseen by Westwood, with 837 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12.
Westwood comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 2,842 students; Westwood High is among them.
Demographically, Westwood High logs that White students make up the majority at 73%; the rest is composed of 13% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. Compared to Norfolk County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 75 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.4:1, putting Westwood High tighter than the state norm the norm.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Norfolk County indicate median household income runs about $130,739, about 59% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Norfolk County runs 198 public schools (combined enrollment of about 101,300 students), of which Westwood High is one.
Westwood Integrated Preschool is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Westwood High.
The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Westwood High's enrollment has edged down 16% since 2018, when it stood at 1,002 (now 837). Over the same period, the White share fell from 86% to 73%. Class-load math has fell: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 in 2025.
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