If you are looking for best high schools in Austin area, Westlake and Westwood high schools are among the top. In this post, I will share more details on both schools, since many of home buyers are interested in these schools.
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Westlake high school is the only high school in Eanes ISD, while Westwood high school belongs to Round Rock ISD. They are very similar in school size, each grade has around 700 students. The student-teacher ratio is 14 to 1 in Westlake vs 16 to 1 for Westwood. Both schools provide many challenging advanced placement(AP) courses, and Westwood also offers the International Baccalaureate(IB) program. The average SAT score is 1350 for both schools according to the latest Niche data.
Not only an excellent academic reputation, Westlake is also known for its sports championship, it won the 2021, 2020, and 2019 6A Division Football state champions. Westlake sponsors many sports and a list of state titles can be found on this website https://www.westlakenation.com/fan-zone/state-titles
Westwood also has a rich championship history, and it has a very strong tennis team, which won the state championship on 2020 season. A list of state titles can be found here : https://www.warriorsports.org/information/directory/State_Championships
Every year, graduates from both schools will be admitted to many elite colleges like Ivies and other top-notch universities. Every graduation, there are students admitted by Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Princeton, and other top US colleges. About half the students go to a college in Texas with many of them enrolled at the University of Texas -Austin and Texas A&M University.
Below are tables that list the numbers of students who attended some top colleges from year 2017 to 2021.
| Graduation Year | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 |
| Total Graduates | 688 | 701 | 634 | 646 | n/a |
| Brown University | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Columbia University | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Cornell University | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
| Dartmouth University | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Duke University | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 2 |
| Harvard University | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| MIT | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| University of Pennsylvania | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Princeton University | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Rice University | 3 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 7 |
| Stanford University | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Yale University | 1 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| UC Berkeley | 5 | 4 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| UT-Austin | 80 | 85 | 108 | 103 | n/a |
| Texas A&M | 83 | 63 | 50 | 54 | n/a |
| Graduation Year | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 |
| Total Graduates | 707 | 644 | 600 | 641 | 620 |
| Brown University | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Columbia University | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Cornell University | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Dartmouth University | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| Duke University | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Harvard University | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| MIT | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| University of Pennsylvania | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Princeton University | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Rice University | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 11 |
| Stanford University | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Yale University | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| UC Berkeley | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| UT-Austin | 89 | 101 | 92 | 112 | 87 |
| Texas A&M | 73 | 48 | 35 | 33 | 35 |
Overall, both Westlake and Westwood are excellent high schools, and provide quality education and college opportunities.
As a real estate agent with 10+ years of experience, almost all my buyers are considering school district as one of key criteria when making home-buying decision if it’s not the most important factor.
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