WESTBURY H S

WESTBURY H S is one of the heavily attended senior highs in HOUSTON, Texas, overseen by HOUSTON ISD, with 1,991 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so WESTBURY H S sits 150% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 273 schools in HOUSTON ISD (176,727 students total), WESTBURY H S accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, WESTBURY H S shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 69%; the rest breaks down as 26% Black, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, WESTBURY H S has 130 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 91% of students at WESTBURY H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, WESTBURY H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.0%, the actual is 40.8%, a residual of +6.7 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Harris County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which WESTBURY H S is one.

ANDERSON EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WESTBURY H S comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 37.5%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WESTBURY H S has declined 16%, going from 2,358 students in 2018 to 1,991 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 60% to 69% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.1:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.

On the community side, members of the WESTBURY H S community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.