Westside High School (Houston)
| Westside High School | |
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| Address | |
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14201 Briar Forest Drive Houston, TX 77077 |
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| Coordinates | 29°45′34″N 95°38′16″W / 29.75944°N 95.63778°W |
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| School type | Suburban public secondary school |
| Founded | 2000 |
| School district | Houston Independent School District |
| Principal | Peggi Stewart |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 2,940 |
| Language | English |
| Color(s) | Blue, Black and Silver |
| Mascot | Westley The Wolf |
| Team name | The Wolves |
| Newspaper | The Howler |
| Yearbook | Canidae |
| Communities served | portions of the Westchase District, South Eldridge Parkway portion of the Houston Energy Corridor, Walnut Bend, Briargrove Park |
| Website | Westside High School |
Westside High School is a secondary school in Houston, Texas, United States. It serves grades 9 through 12 and is part of the Houston Independent School District.
The school is located at 14201 Briar Forest in Houston, Texas, in the 77077 zip code. Westside High School is outside of Beltway 8, east of State Highway 6, inside State Highway 99 (Grand Parkway), and south of Interstate 10 (Katy Freeway) in the Briar Forest area.
Westside is HISD's Magnet School for Integrated Technology. The program allows students to look at technology from one of five aspects: Fine Arts, Business, Media Relations, Applied Science/Health Science, and Computing Sciences. During the first year, all Magnet students take a technology survey course, a modular course that introduces them to the five strands of the program. The second year, students are asked to choose one of the five strands on which to focus their elective courses.
Westside High School is also known for its academic programs, ranking #463, #196, #230, #245, and #1,958th in Newsweek magazine's 2005, 2006 2007, 2008, and 2013 lists, respectively, of the top 2,000 high schools in the United States. Among the school's faculty is the 2005 Houston Independent School District Secondary Teacher of the Year, Nobuo Cedric French.
Many students in other parts of Houston ISD transfer to Westside to escape home schools that do not have a good academic performance, causing the attendance figures of those schools to suffer.
Westside athletics compete as the Westside Wolves, and the school's mascot is Westley the Wolf.
Westside opened in 2000 as a brand-new fifty-million-dollar building, taking about 1,000 students from Lee High School (now Margaret Long Wisdom High School), which was experiencing overcrowding. Westside planned to compete with Bellaire and Lamar high schools in Houston ISD for "premier" status. It initially had a reputation as a school that could attract private school students to a public school. When Westside opened, residents of the Lee attendance boundary were given the option to attend Westside instead of Lee, with no free transportation provided. The school at first had 1,772 students, including 340 students who, in the previous school year, were not enrolled in HISD.
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