Westlake High School (Texas)
Westlake High School is a high school in unincorporated Travis County, Texas, in Greater Austin. It is a part of the Eanes Independent School District. In 2011, it was ranked 72nd on Newsweek Magazine's list of America's top High Schools. In 2012, Children at Risk, a Houston-based nonprofit and advocacy agency ranked Westlake High School as the number four public high school in the greater Austin area.
Westlake High School is the lone high school in the Eanes ISD and serves West Lake Hills, Rollingwood, parts of Southwest Austin, and parts of unincorporated Travis County. The school was established in 1969 and opened in 1970.
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