Walled Lake Western High School

The public high school Walled Lake Western High School is located in COMMERCE TOWNSHIP, Michigan. The school's 1,033 students are in grades 9 through 12. For comparison, high schools in Michigan average about 460 students.

Walled Lake Western High School is run by Walled Lake Consolidated Schools, whose 19 schools enroll 11,640 students.

White students are the majority at Walled Lake Western High School, with 55% of enrollment. Other groups make up 17% Black, 13% Hispanic, 10% Asian, and 5% multiracial. Oakland County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school's share is lower. The school's diversity index is 64%, meaning two students picked at random have a 64% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.

With 58 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at Walled Lake Western High School was 17.8:1. This ratio sits 3.8 below the 21.6:1 average for high schools in Michigan. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 37%.

Oakland County census figures show that the median household income is $97,760, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. There are 345 public schools in Oakland County, enrolling about 169,926 students in all.

James R Geisler Middle School is the closest public school, about 0.4 miles away in a straight line. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8.

Walled Lake Western High School has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.

2024-25 enrollment was 1,033, a 17% decrease from 1,240 in 2020-21. Its ratio of students to teachers was 24.3:1 in 2020-21, and 17.8:1 in 2024-25.

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