Summary:
Westlake City serves PK–12 across four schools—one elementary, two middle, and one high school—with 3,176 students and a district rank of 66th of 773 Ohio districts (91st percentile, 5 stars). The feeder pattern runs from Westlake Elementary School (PK–4, 1,215), to Dover Intermediate School (5–6, 471), to Lee Burneson Middle School (7–8, 501), to Westlake High School (9–12, 989).
Both Westlake High School and Lee Burneson Middle School are 5-star, 91st-percentile standouts in 2025–2026. Westlake High ranks 75th of 795, has a 97.2% graduation rate, and posts Biology 93%, American History 92%, English II 88.3%, and American Government 87.7%; Geometry 74.9% and Algebra I 71.2% are lower but still above state averages. Lee Burneson ranks 93rd of 1,046 and reports 100% proficiency in Geometry and Algebra I in both 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, plus 7th grade ELA 87.6% and 8th grade ELA 85.4%; those 100% results may reflect small or accelerated cohorts. Dover Intermediate School has no rank history but strong scores, including 5th grade Science 86.9%, 5th grade Math 81.1%, 6th grade Math 81.9%, 5th grade ELA 86%, and 6th grade ELA 85.5%. Westlake Elementary School is the largest school, 4 stars at the 84th percentile, with 3rd grade Math 81%, 4th grade Math 85.9%, 3rd grade ELA 80.1%, and 4th grade ELA 79.6%.
Every reported school-level test score is above the state average, and free/reduced lunch is tightly clustered from 21.89% to 24.15%. The clearest outlier is chronic absenteeism at Westlake High School—26.2%, compared with 16.6% districtwide, 15.4% at Lee Burneson Middle School, 13.9% at Dover Intermediate School, and 9.8% at Westlake Elementary School. Westlake Elementary has the highest student-teacher ratio (15.5), Dover the lowest (13.0). Lee Burneson has the lowest listed 2018–2019 per-student spending ($9,581), Westlake Elementary the highest ($14,842), but those figures are old. Overall, Westlake City is consistently strong, with two especially high-flying schools and high school absenteeism plus relative Algebra I/Geometry performance as the main areas to watch.
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