{"ap_courses":30,"ap_rigor_national_percentile":85.8,"at_a_glance":["Westlake High School is a public high school in Austin, TX, enrolling 2,854 students in grades 9-12 in 2024.","Enrollment is up 0% from 2021 to 2024.","It offers 30 AP courses, a course-rigor profile stronger than 86% of U.S. high schools (federal Civil Rights Data Collection).","971 students took the SAT or ACT in the most recent federal count, a participation level above 99% of U.S. high schools.","Texas reports 90% of its graduates College, Career or Military Ready and a four-year graduation rate of 98%; its average SAT was 1,264.","It has about 301 students per school counselor.","3% of its students were chronically absent in 2020.","Westlake High School publishes a matriculation list (where its graduates enrolled) for the Class of 2025: 31 colleges, with per-college counts; the largest counts are UC Santa Barbara (7), Southwestern University (5), Duke University (4), Rice University (4), University Of Illinois-Urbana Champaign (4). Source: Post Secondary Pathways Report - Westlake High School Class of 2025.","Westlake High School's feeder standing, from the schools' own published counts: #1 United States Air Force Academy, #1 Southwestern, #6 Rice, #7 UC Santa Barbara, #10 Duke. Ivy+ admits: #6 of 33 schools per class year.","Westlake High School reports 33 National Merit Semifinalists and 62 Commended Students for the class of 2026, the seniors who graduated in June 2026 (Eanes ISD district news).","Westlake High School reports 27 National Merit Semifinalists for the class of 2025, the seniors who graduated in June 2025 (Post Secondary Pathways Report 2025, Westlake High School).","Sources: National Center for Education Statistics (enrollment), the federal Civil Rights Data Collection and EDFacts, state education agencies where named, and the school's own published documents where named."],"caveats":["UC admits and applications are counted at each campus: a student admitted to three UCs counts three times. The UC Reach Score is those admits divided by the senior class, times 100, so a strong school scores above 100.","A published college list is the school's own document, copied as printed; counts are the school's, never ours, and an unnumbered list carries no counts.","Enrollment is NCES CCD for national pages and CDE for California pages; graduation and readiness measures are the state's or EDFacts' own definitions, named in each sentence.","Every figure here is also rendered on the HTML page it describes."],"chronic_absenteeism_pct":3.2,"city":"Austin","dual_enrollment":false,"enrollment":{"grades_9_12":2854,"year":2024},"enrollment_change_pct":0.0,"enrollment_change_span":[2021,2024],"faq":[{"a":"Westlake High School publishes a matriculation list (where its graduates enrolled) for the Class of 2025: 31 colleges, with per-college counts; the largest counts are UC Santa Barbara (7), Southwestern University (5), Duke University (4), Rice University (4), University Of Illinois-Urbana Champaign (4). Source: Post Secondary Pathways Report - Westlake High School Class of 2025.","q":"Where do Westlake High School graduates go to college?"},{"a":"Westlake High School's feeder standing, from the schools' own published counts: #1 United States Air Force Academy, #1 Southwestern, #6 Rice, #7 UC Santa Barbara, #10 Duke. 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