In 2013, 87 percent of WMHS students who took the Advanced Placement test passed the examination, the highest rate in the state.
Four thousand more students in Louisiana took the 2013 exam compared to the number doing so in 2012, the largest increase in participation of any state.
Louisiana students taking the exam earned a collective 5,144 college credits, an increase of 25 percent over 2012.
[2] The West Monroe High School Student Council is one of the largest active clubs on campus.
Five students (in 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, and 2020) have competed and won scholarships to study abroad in Nova Scotia and Belgium.
The choir has an unbroken streak of Superior Ratings beginning in 1994, and has toured Italy, Europe, and Austria.
Their Falcon Honor Guard was recognized as one of the best in the state at a statewide drill meet held in January 2016 at Louisiana Tech University.