Summary:
Zip code 73179 has three Western Heights schools serving grades PK–12: Winds West Elementary (PK–4), Western Heights Middle (7–8) and Western Heights High (9–12). The clearest bright spot is Winds West math, while most reported school results are below state levels. Across the area, the most important finding is that proficiency is below state in nearly every reported grade and subject, with Winds West third-grade math the clear exception.
Winds West stands out in math: its all-grades result was 30% proficient, 5 points above the state’s 25%; third-grade math was 39%, 6 points above the state, though fourth grade was 20%, 13 points below. The middle school has the lowest all-grades ELA and math results—6% and 5%, versus 26% and 25% statewide—and the highest chronic absenteeism, at 37% compared with 16% statewide. Its science result, 16%, was the highest reported among the schools, but remained below the state’s 30%. At the high school, test results were below state in every reported subject, but its 2024–2025 graduation rate was 81%, about 4 points above the state’s 78%.
Recent trends are mixed: all-grades ELA and math gaps narrowed on average, from 16 to 13 points below state in ELA and from 17 to 11 points below in math, while science and U.S. History declined at the high school. SchoolDigger’s percentile ranking rose at Winds West, from 14 to 36; the middle school edged up from 3 to 5, while the high school fell from 16 to 8. Reported 2024–2025 student–teacher ratios were 16.2 at Winds West, 11.2 at the middle school and 17.9 at the high school. All three reported free/reduced lunch eligible for 2024–2025, with figures rounding to 96%–97%; this is context, not an explanation of results. Because the schools serve different grade spans, all-grades results are not direct school-to-school rankings.
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