WEST HIGH

Set in BALLWIN, Missouri, WEST HIGH is a roomy secondary school, one of the schools within PARKWAY C-2. It hosts 1,417 students across grades 9 through 12. That puts it 183% bigger than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 501 students.

PARKWAY C-2 comprises 29 schools with combined enrollment of 16,759 students; WEST HIGH is among them.

Demographically, WEST HIGH logs that 62% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder is composed of 17% Asian, 11% Black, 7% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. Compared to St. Louis County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, WEST HIGH records 91 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.2:1, putting WEST HIGH higher than the state norm the norm. About 11% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against St. Louis County (around 43%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, WEST HIGH sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.1%; this one delivers 67.5%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (St. Louis County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $82,936 per year, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, St. Louis County runs 275 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students), of which WEST HIGH is one.

Nearest neighbor: EARLY CHILDHOOD, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, WEST HIGH comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 57.5%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WEST HIGH has showed little movement, going from 1,397 students in 2018 to 1,417 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 72% to 62% over that span.

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