Harvard-Westlake School

Harvard-Westlake School
Possunt Quia Posse Videntur trans.: They can because they think they can.
Location
Los Angeles, California United States
Information
Type	Independent
Established	Harvard School for Boys: 1900 Westlake School for Girls: 1904 Fully Merged as Harvard-Westlake: 1991
President	Richard B. Commons
Vice President	John Amato
Faculty	195
Grades	7–12
Head of School	Jeanne M. Huybrechts, Ed.D.
Color(s)	Red,Black,and White
Athletics	California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section
Mascot	Wolverine
Accreditation	WASC, NAIS, CAIS
2013 SAT average	688 verbal/critical reading 703 math 707 writing
Newspaper	The Chronicle
Yearbook	Vox Populi
Student to faculty ratio	8:1
Average class size	13
Website	www.hw.com

Middle School
Address
700 North Faring Road Los Angeles,  California  USA
Information
Grades	7–9
Enrollment	727 (2009–2010)
Campus size	12 acres (4.9 ha)
The former Administration Building, Middle School (demolished summer 2008)

Upper School
Address
3700 Coldwater Canyon Avenue Studio City,  California  USA
Information
Grades	10–12
Enrollment	870 (2009–2010)
Campus size	22 acres (8.9 ha)
Ted Slavin Field, Upper School

Harvard-Westlake School is an independent, co-educational university preparatory day school consisting of two campuses located in Los Angeles, California with approximately 1,600 students enrolled in grades seven through twelve.

The school has its campuses in Holmby Hills and Studio City. The school is a member of the G20 Schools group.

Harvard-Westlake is the product of the 1991 merger between the Harvard School for Boys and the Westlake School for Girls.

The Harvard School for Boys was established in 1900 by Grenville C. Emery as a military academy, located at the corner of Western Avenue and Venice Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. In 1911, it secured endorsement from the Episcopal Church becoming a non-profit organization. In 1937, the school moved to its present-day campus on Coldwater Canyon in Studio City after receiving a loan from Donald Douglas of the Douglas Aviation Company. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Harvard School gradually discontinued both boarding and its standing as a military academy, while continually expanding its enrollment, courses, classes, teachers and curriculum.

The Westlake School for Girls was established in 1904 by Jessica Smith Vance and Frederica de Laguna in what is now downtown Los Angeles, California as an exclusively female institution offering both elementary and secondary education. It moved to its present-day campus located in Holmby Hills, California in 1927. The School was purchased by Sydney Temple, whose daughter, Helen Temple Dickinson, was headmistress until 1966, when Westlake became a non-profit institution. The Temple Family owned the school until 1977, with Mrs. Dickinson serving in an ex officio capacity. In 1968 Westlake became exclusively a secondary school.

As both schools continued to grow in size towards the late 1980s, and as gender-exclusivity became less and less of a factor both in the schools’ reputations and desirability, the trustees of both Harvard and Westlake effectuated a merger in 1989. The two institutions had long been de facto sister schools and interacted socially. Complete integration and coeducation began in 1991.