Summary:
ZIP code 44145 in Westlake, Ohio, contains five schools — two elementary, two middle, and one high school, with no alternative schools — serving students from pre-kindergarten through grade 12 across the Westlake City district and the separate Westlake Academy district. Four schools belong to Westlake City, which is ranked 66 of 773 districts, in the 91st percentile with 5 stars, and enrolls 3,176 students; tiny Westlake Academy adds 49 students, bringing the ZIP total to about 3,225.
Within the Westlake City sequence, Westlake High School and Lee Burneson Middle School both reached 5 stars in 2025–2026 at the 91st percentile, and the high school posts a 97.2% graduation rate. Dover Intermediate School has no rank history but strong scores and the lowest student-teacher ratio at 13.0, while Westlake Elementary School is the largest at 1,215 students, ranked 255 of 1,560 (84th percentile, 4 stars) with the lowest chronic absenteeism at 9.8%. Westlake Academy serves K–2 with 49 students, a 61.22% free/reduced-lunch rate, 26.8% chronic absenteeism, a 16.3 student-teacher ratio, and no test-score, rank, or spending data in this extract.
Proficiency is generally far above state averages across Westlake City schools, and advanced math stands out: Lee Burneson reported 100% proficiency in Algebra I and Geometry in both years shown, and Dover reported 100% in Math 7 in 2025–2026, though those groups may be small. Chronic absenteeism climbs with grade level, from 9.8% at the elementary school to 26.2% at the high school, above the district rate of 16.6%. The high school's lower relative scores are Algebra I at 71.2 and Geometry at 74.9, both below the district figures of 80.9 and 76.9. Note that spending data is from 2018–2019 only.
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