Westwood High School (Austin, Texas)

Westwood High School (abbreviated WHS) is a public, four-year secondary school in the Anderson Mill neighborhood, Austin, Texas, United States, and is part of the Round Rock Independent School District.

Westwood offers honors and Advanced Placement courses to all students and further houses a district level International Baccalaureate magnet program. This combination of honors, AP and IB courses supports not only a robust college matriculation rate but also imparts a college preparatory element to upper division courses. As of the 2012-2013 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2582 students and 162.34 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 15.9. In April 2022, there were 2,751 students enrolled at Westwood High School.

Demographics
The demographic breakdown of the 2,815 students enrolled for the 2022-2023 school year was:

Gender
 * Male - 50.7%
 * Female - 49.2%

Ethnicity
 * Native American - 0.5%
 * Asian/Pacific islander - 39.0%
 * African American- 2.8%
 * Hispanic - 17.9%
 * White - 35.0%
 * Two or more races - 4.8%

Additionally 11.3% of the students population are considered economically disadvantaged.

Academics
In the class of 2009, 73% of Westwood seniors took at least one Advanced Placement (AP) or International Baccalaureate (IB) exam, averaging 5.1 exams per test taker, with a participant pass rate of 91.2%. For the class of 2010, the mean composite SAT score was 1801 out of 2400, and the mean ACT score was 26.4. In 2013, Westwood produced 50 National Merit Semifinalists, one of the highest numbers in the nation.

Westwood offers 25 AP classes.

Chess Club
In 2009 Westwood traveled to the National Scholastic K-12 Championship, where the 10th grade team won first and the 12th grade team tied for first; the 9th and 11th grade teams placed third and fourth in their sections respectively.

Feeder Patterns
Two middle schools feed into this school:
 * Canyon Vista
 * Grisham

Six elementary schools feed into this school:
 * Kathy Caraway
 * Laurel Mountain
 * Spicewood (An IB World School)
 * Anderson Mill
 * Canyon Creek (A US Exemplary School)
 * Purple Sage (A US Recognized School)

Notable alumni

 * Brent Clevlen (born 1983), baseball player
 * Kelly Johnson, baseball player
 * Savan Kotecha, Grammy-nominated songwriter and record producer
 * Glen Powell (born 1988), Actor
 * Eric Cervini, Author, historian, activist
 * Camilla Luddington (born 1983), actress best known for her role as Jo Wilson on ABC's Grey's Anatomy, attended Westwood High School for one year
 * Brian Vera (born 1981), American boxer