1
Honest take: what's the hardest part about being a student at WESTERN HILLS H S?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
854
High
DISTRICT 841 · STATE 796
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FORT WORTH ISD·NCES 481970001932
Western Hills High School
3600 BOSTON AVE, FORT WORTH, TX 76116 · (817) 815-6000 · Tarrant County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL854 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 2% of Texas public high schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-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 Texas public high schools
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
66 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.5:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
88%
753 students
DISTRICT 84% · STATE 65%
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 | 256 | 30% |
| Grade 10 | 219 | 26% |
| Grade 11 | 200 | 23% |
| Grade 12 | 179 | 21% |
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 63% · 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
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
25.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +4.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
15.0%
TX avg 45.3% . -10.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 15 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 4 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 10 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 2.0% | 23.0% | 25.0% | 50.0% |
| Mathematics | 3.0% | 12.0% | 54.0% | 31.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 25.0% | 15.0% |
| 2024-25 | 24.0% | 10.0% |
| 2023-24 | 27.0% | 11.0% |
| 2022-23 | 16.0% | 8.0% |
| 2021-22 | 17.0% | 24.0% |
| 2020-21 | 21.0% | 25.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. 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
27.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.0%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% typical for Texas 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 Texas'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 Western Hills High School
Western Hills High School's state test result (27.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Western Hills High School this school | 854 | 88.2% | 27.8% |
| La Vega High School WACO | 881 | 88.3% | 37.8% |
| IDEA Rise College Preparatory FORT WORTH | 598 | 86.8% | 54.8% |
| Southwest High School FORT WORTH | 1,155 | 84.7% | 31.3% |
| Estacado High School LUBBOCK | 787 | 90.0% | 27.4% |
| LBJ Early College High School AUSTIN | 734 | 88.6% | 29.6% |
Matched among Texas 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 Western Hills High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Tarrant County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.8% | #1,350 of 1,385 | #66 of 70 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 15.0% | #1,386 of 1,425 ▲ 12 | #73 of 76 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 25.0% | #1,409 of 1,425 ▼ 14 | #73 of 76 ▼ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +8.0pp | #875 of 1,184 | #43 of 68 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 854 | #653 of 2,107 | #51 of 120 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.0:1 | #412 of 1,344 | #10 of 83 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.8% | #339 of 1,346 | #44 of 83 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 88.2% | #239 of 1,522 | #18 of 82 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.0% | #335 of 557 | #22 of 35 |
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
854
-69 (-7%) vs 2020
-42% since 1990-91, when it was 1,480
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
was 13.2:1
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 | 854 | 65.6 | 13.0:1 | 88% (753) |
| 2023-24 | 889 | 69.4 | 12.8:1 | 83% (741) |
| 2022-23 | 929 | 69.9 | 13.3:1 | 87% (808) |
| 2020-21 | 923 | 70 | 13.2:1 | 89% (818) |
| 2017-18 | 918 | 79.7 | 11.5:1 | 56% (514) |
| 2015-16 | 1,172 | 93 | 12.6:1 | 49% (577) |
| 2010-11 | 1,536 | 103 | 14.9:1 | 43% (664) |
| 2000-01 | 1,475 | 85 | 17.4:1 | 19% (274) |
| 1990-91 | 1,480 | 76 | 19.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Western Hills High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (918 to 854); teachers down 18% (79.7 to 65.6).
About Western Hills High School
Western Hills High School is a mid-sized high school with an address in FORT WORTH, Texas. Its enrollment is 854 students, spread over grades 9 through 12.
FORT WORTH ISD runs 136 schools with a combined 70,612 students. Western Hills High School is one of them.
More than half of enrollment at Western Hills High School is Hispanic: 52%. Next come 33% Black, 10% White, and 4% multiracial. The county population is about 30% Hispanic. The diversity index for Western Hills High School is 61%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Western Hills High School has 65.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 13.0:1. High schools in Texas have an average ratio of 15.1:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 88%. That rate is above the 63% average among public schools in Tarrant County.
Western Hills High School holds an F allk12 Grade, placing it above 2% of Texas public high schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 36.0% for Western Hills High School. The school posts 27.8%, 8.3 points below the prediction.
In the surrounding county, Tarrant County, the median household earns about $84,207 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 35%, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. Tarrant County has 639 public schools with about 385,835 students, including Western Hills High School.
The closest school to Western Hills High School is Waverly Park Elementary School, located about 0.6 miles away. Western Hills High School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Western Hills High School's average proficiency of 27.8% compares with 32.9% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
Federal enrollment counts decreased from 923 (2020-21) to 854 (2024-25).
Parents, students, and staff can share information on special education services, counseling, and support programs here. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Tarrant County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,167,390
Census ACS
Median income
$84,207
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
639
385,835 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in FORT WORTH ISD
- Paschal High SchoolHigh · 2,127 students
- Trimble Technical High SchoolHigh · 1,924 students
- Arlington Heights High SchoolHigh · 1,898 students
- South Hills High SchoolHigh · 1,846 students
- North Side High SchoolHigh · 1,676 students
- O D Wyatt High SchoolHigh · 1,499 students
Other schools in FORT WORTH
- V R Eaton High SchoolHigh · 3,288 students
- Timber Creek High SchoolHigh · 2,970 students
- North Crowley High SchoolHigh · 2,936 students
- Boswell High SchoolHigh · 2,445 students
- Chisholm Trail High SchoolHigh · 2,258 students
- Paschal High SchoolHigh · 2,127 students
Other Western Hills High schools
One other US public school is named Western Hills High. Western Hills High School is the largest of the 2.
- Western Hills High SchoolFrankfort, KY · 827 students
Nearby schools
- Waverly Park Elementary School0.6 mi · 639
- Luella Merrett Elementary School0.8 mi · 456
- IDEA Rise College Preparatory0.9 mi · 598
- IDEA Rise Academy0.9 mi · 681
- Leonard Middle School1.0 mi · 568
- Western Hills Primary School1.1 mi · 393
Frequently asked questions
About Western Hills High SchoolHow large is Western Hills High School?
Western Hills High School enrolls approximately 854 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does Western Hills High School serve?
Western Hills High School serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at Western Hills High School?
Approximately 13.0:1 students per teacher at Western Hills High School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Western Hills High School?
At Western Hills High School, the student body is approximately 10% White, 52% Hispanic, 33% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Western Hills High School public or private?
Western Hills High School is a public K-12 school, overseen by FORT WORTH ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.