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Enrollment
989
High
DISTRICT 794 · STATE 565
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WESTLAKE CITY·NCES 390450601977
Westlake High School
27830 Hilliard Blvd, Westlake, OH 44145 · (440) 250-1002 · Cuyahoga County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL989 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 88% of Ohio public high schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Ohio public high schools
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
70 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 17.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
22%
218 students
DISTRICT 23% · STATE 43%
Community
1
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 | 223 | 23% |
| Grade 10 | 251 | 25% |
| Grade 11 | 260 | 26% |
| Grade 12 | 255 | 26% |
Student demographics
40%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 40% · STATE 54% · 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
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Westlake City. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
87.7%
OH avg 59.8% . +6.8pp since 2021
Math
67.3%
OH avg 56.1% . +8.2pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 88 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 8 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 87.7% | 67.3% |
| 2023-24 | 84.3% | 64.0% |
| 2022-23 | 83.5% | 68.5% |
| 2021-22 | 80.9% | 59.0% |
% Proficient or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Ohio's State Tests. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
81.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
80.5%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 81% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 80% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Ohio's top nor bottom 10%.
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 Westlake High School
Westlake High School's state test result (81.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westlake High School this school | 989 | 22.0% | 81.4% |
| Kings High School Kings Mills | 1,457 | 19.0% | 78.9% |
| Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School Broadview Heights | 1,181 | 15.8% | 91.2% |
| Strongsville High School Strongsville | 1,842 | 25.5% | 83.0% |
| North Royalton High School North Royalton | 1,401 | 27.5% | 83.5% |
| Ferguson Hall Freshman School Beavercreek | 633 | 21.8% | 94.4% |
Matched among Ohio 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 Westlake High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Cuyahoga County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 81.4% | #75 of 403 | #12 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.3% | #151 of 776 ▲ 15 | #15 of 71 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 87.7% | #36 of 774 ▲ 50 | #7 of 71 ▲ 4 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +7.5pp | #200 of 742 | #31 of 67 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 989 | #146 of 888 | #16 of 74 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.2:1 | #181 of 739 | #16 of 65 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 39.7% | #227 of 749 | #32 of 65 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.0% | #367 of 435 | #11 of 20 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.4% | #139 of 484 | #17 of 42 |
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
989
-129 (-12%) vs 2020
-8% since 1990-91, when it was 1,070
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
was 17.8:1
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 | 989 | 69.6 | 14.2:1 | 22% (218) |
| 2023-24 | 1,063 | 70.6 | 15.1:1 | 23% (245) |
| 2022-23 | 1,066 | 62.9 | 16.9:1 | 15% (159) |
| 2020-21 | 1,118 | 63 | 17.8:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 1,198 | 69.8 | 17.2:1 | 19% (225) |
| 2015-16 | 1,227 | 64 | 19.2:1 | 19% (234) |
| 2010-11 | 1,363 | 81 | 16.8:1 | 15% (208) |
| 2000-01 | 1,216 | 83 | 14.7:1 | 1% (7) |
| 1990-91 | 1,070 | 74 | 14.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Westlake High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (1,198 to 989); teachers unchanged (69.8 to 69.6).
About Westlake High School
Located in Westlake, Ohio, Westlake High School is a high-enrollment high school. Federal data show 989 students enrolled in grades 9 through 12 in 2024-25. Across high schools in Ohio, the average enrollment is about 565.
Westlake High School falls under Westlake City, which has 4 schools enrolling 3,176 students.
More than half of the students at Westlake High School are White (77%). Other reported shares: 8% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 2% Black. That compares with about 58% White among all Cuyahoga County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 40%.
Teacher count: 69.6 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 14.2:1. Compared with the 17.7:1 average for high schools in Ohio, this school's ratio is lower. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 22%.
Among Ohio public high schools, Westlake High School outscored 88%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
Test results at Westlake High School are within a point of what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (81.4% actual, 80.5% predicted).
For Cuyahoga County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $64,468 a year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 12% of people live in poverty. Counting Westlake High School, Cuyahoga County has 352 public schools.
Westlake High School's nearest public school is Dover Intermediate School (about 0.5 miles). Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Westlake High School is 5th of 6 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
The school's student count decreased 12% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. The school's ratio dropped from 17.8:1 to 14.2:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Cuyahoga County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,245,873
Census ACS
Median income
$64,468
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
352
155,924 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Westlake City
- Westlake Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,215 students
- Lee Burneson Middle SchoolMiddle · 501 students
- Dover Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 471 students
Other schools in Westlake
- Westlake Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,215 students
- Lee Burneson Middle SchoolMiddle · 501 students
- Dover Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 471 students
- Westlake AcademyElementary · 49 students
Other Westlake High schools
7 other US public schools in 8 states are named Westlake High. Westlake High School is the 6th largest of the 8.
- Westlake HighSARATOGA SPRINGS, UT · 3,052 students
- Westlake High SchoolAUSTIN, TX · 2,854 students
- Westlake High SchoolAtlanta, GA · 2,056 students
- Westlake HighWestlake Village, CA · 1,900 students
- Westlake High SchoolWaldorf, MD · 1,216 students
Nearby schools
- Dover Intermediate School0.5 mi · 471
- Lee Burneson Middle School0.5 mi · 501
- Westlake Academy0.8 mi · 49
- Westlake Elementary School1.0 mi · 1,215
- Bay Middle School1.6 mi · 738
- Normandy Elementary School1.7 mi · 477
Frequently asked questions
About Westlake High SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Westlake High School?
Westlake High School enrolls approximately 989 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does Westlake High School serve?
Westlake High School serves grades 09-12.
How many students per teacher at Westlake High School?
Approximately 14.2:1 students per teacher at Westlake High School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Westlake High School?
At Westlake High School, the student body is approximately 77% White, 7% Hispanic, 2% Black, 8% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Westlake High School public or private?
Westlake High School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Westlake City.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.