Westside is HISD's Magnet School for Integrated Technology.[3] 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.
The school's academic programs, ranked #463, #196, #230, #245, and #1,958th in Newsweek magazine's 2005,[4] 2006[5] 2007,[6] 2008, and 2013[7] lists, respectively, of the top 2,000 high schools in the United States.
As of 2006[update], many students in other parts of Houston ISD transferred to Westside to escape high schools that do not have a good academic performance, causing the attendance figures of those schools to suffer.[8]
Westside athletics compete as the Westside Wolves, and the school's mascot is Wesley the Wolf.
History
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.[9] 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.[10] When Westside opened, residents of the Lee attendance boundary were given the option to attend Westside instead of Lee, with no free transportation provided.[11] The school at first had 1,772 students, including 340 students who, in the previous school year, were not enrolled in HISD.[12] Westside is so-named because it is located in western Houston.[13]
Scott Van Beck was the first principal of Westside. In 2005 he was promoted to being the West District head.[14] Later in that year, Paul Castro became Westside principal;[15] he was 29 at the time he had his first school principal job.[16] That year about 300 students from New Orleans, displaced by Hurricane Katrina, enrolled at Westside, causing overcrowding and making the overall student population over 3,000.[15] According to the October 2006 HISD "For Your Information" newsletter, Westside was one of four high schools that took the most refugees from Hurricane Katrina.[citation needed]
By March 2006, Westside had posted slightly lower SAT and graduation rates than Lamar and Bellaire. In a March 2006 Houston Press article, Dr. Robert Sanborn, the president and CEO of the organization Children at Risk, said that Westside's "slow progress", as paraphrased by the article's author Todd Spivak, was more disappointing than Lamar and Bellaire's dropout rates.[10]
In fall of the 2008–2009 school year, a petroleum academy by the name of Westside Engineering and Geosciences Academy was opened at Westside High School.[17]
In 2007, 6% of high school-aged children zoned to Westside chose to attend alternative Houston ISD schools.[18]
In 2010, Richard Connelly of the Houston Press said that Westside became "something of a success story for HISD."[19]
The Westside dance troupe Inertia Dance Co. has been featured in People magazine and on Good Morning America. At one point, a reality show was planned for the troupe.[21]
Westside won the Division II State Lacrosse title in 2004. Westside High School's rugby team incorporated with a public high school in the Houston Independent School District. The Westside Wrestling program has won Districts for the past 10 years and has had four individual state champions.
Westside High School won its first SECME State Competition in 2008.
Campus
Westside is on a 50-acre (20 ha) campus,[22] located along Briar Forest Road, near Texas State Highway 6.[23] Several gated communities are in proximity to the school.[22]
The school was built for $50 million. The school has one auditorium, two theaters, four athletic fields, 11 music practice rooms, an orchestra hall, a band hall, a broadcast studio, a ceramics studio, and computer labs. Melissa Hung of the Houston Press wrote in 2000 that "The eating area resembles a college food court more than a high school cafeteria."[23]
Athletics
Westside High School athletics logo
Westside High School's sports' mascot is the "Wolf". The girls' teams are sometimes known as the "Lady Wolves".
Sports at the school include:[24]
American football
Baseball
Basketball (boys & girls)
Cheerleading
Cross-country (boys & girls)
Golf (boys & girls)
Lacrosse (boys & girls)
Rugby (boys)
Soccer (boys & girls)
Softball
Swimming/diving (boys & girls)
Tennis (boys & girls)
Track & field (boys & girls)
Volleyball
Water polo (boys & girls)
Wrestling (boys & girls)
Organizations and clubs
Westside has about 50 clubs and organizations in addition to its athletic programs.[25]
Special interest
Asian Cultural Society,
Bike Club,
Black Student Union,
BSA Advancement,
BPA,
Chinese Club,
Christians on Campus,
Close Up,
Drone Club,
Ecology Club,
EOE Step Club,
Fellowship of Christian Athletes,
Fitness Club,
FRC,
French Club,
Friends Club,
Future Farmers of America,
Future Teachers of America,
Gaming/Anime Club,
Gay-Straight Alliance,
Guitar Hero Club,
History Club,
HOSA,
Hot Air Balloon Club,
Howlin' Respect,
Humanities,
Investment Club,
Kite Flying Society,
Korean Pop Culture Club (K-Pop),
Latin Club,
Math Club,
Mental Health Awareness Club,
Movie Buffs,
Name That Book,
Theatre Production,
Technical Theatre,
Playwrighting
They Say Literacy Magazine Club,
SECME,
Ultimate Frisbee,
Young Democrats,
VEX robotics,
Young Liberal Minds of America
Young Republicans,
W.O.R.D.
Performing arts
Art Club (2D and 3D Animation, Drawing and Painting),
National Thespian Honor Society,
Orchestra,
Band,
Speech and Debate Team,
Tri-Music Honor Society,
Westside Choir,
Westside Pride Dance Team,
JV Inertia Dance Company,
Inertia Dance Company, Colorguard,
and Marching Band.
Cheerleaders, Drill Team, Ecology Club, Interact Club, Key Club, JROTC, L.I.F.E, Recycling Club, S.A.V.E. Club, SADD, Marching Band and Colorguard
News
Canidae (yearbook), The Howler (newspaper)
Outback program
Westside has a three-year entrepreneurship program designed by the National Restaurant Education Foundation to teach students about how businesses run.[26]Outback Steakhouse sponsors the program and helped build a full-scale commercial kitchen and dining hall directly into the school.
The school utilizes the restaurant as part of an entrepreneurship course,[27] titled "Entrepreneur 101: Realizing the American Dream."[28] The course, using a curriculum designed by the Texas Restaurant Association Education Foundation (TRAEF), involves classroom study for first year (freshmen) students and restaurant operation performed by second year (sophomore) and third year (junior) students, supervised by Outback general managers and teachers.[29] As of 2003 there were six classes with a combined total of 140 students.[28]
Students learn the production aspect of the restaurant business in addition to basic business principles and cooking methods in the first year of the program, culminating in ServSafe certification by the end of the second year.[citation needed]
Aside from the program itself, the restaurant is open to students and the general public during lunchtime hours in the school year. Outback also caters exclusively for school functions.
Areas served
When Westside opened in 2000, it relieved Margaret Long Wisdom High School, then known as Lee High School, of about 1,000 students that year.[30]
The Westside High School zone[31] covers small portions of the Westchase district that are north of Westheimer Road and the South Eldridge Parkway portion of the Houston Energy Corridor. Westside also covers several other neighborhoods, including Ashford Hill, Ashford West, Ashford South, the Houston ISD part of Ashford Forest, Walnut Bend, Briar Oaks, Briargrove Park, Briar Village, Briarhills, Lakeside Enclave, Lakeside Forest, Lakeside Landing, Lakeside Place, Parkway Villages, Reflections, Shadowbriar, and April Village.
Several gated communities, including Lakes of Parkway,[32] are zoned to Westside High School.
Emerson (partial) (the rest of Emerson indirectly feeds into Westside)[43]
Middle schools that directly feed into Westside include all of West Briar[44] and parts of Revere.[45] Residents of the Westside attendance zone and the Revere attendance zone may apply to West Briar.
Residents zoned to Ashford, Askew, Bush, Daily, Emerson, and Walnut Bend may attend Shadowbriar Elementary School; therefore it is a feeder school for Westside.[46]
Residents of the Emerson Elementary School attendance zone may apply for the Briarmeadow Charter School, so the K-8 school feeds into Westside.[47]
Feeding from the Margaret Long Wisdom boundary
Other schools also feed into Westside, since students zoned to Margaret Long Wisdom High School[33] have the option to go to Westside High School or Lamar High School.[36]
All pupils zoned to Long and Pershing Middle Schools may attend Pin Oak Middle School.[61] Accordingly, Pin Oak also feeds into Lee High School.
Residents of the Briargrove, Emerson, Pilgrim, and Piney Point elementary attendance zones may apply for the Briarmeadow Charter School, so the K-8 school feeds into Lee.[47]
Residents zoned to Emerson may attend Shadowbriar Elementary School; therefore it is a feeder school for Wisdom (and therefore, Westside).[46]
Houston ISD provides school buses for students who live more than 2 miles (3.2 km) away from the school or who have major obstacles between their houses and the school. Students are eligible if they are zoned to Westside or are in the Westside magnet program.
A METRO bus stop (Briar Forest Drive @ Briar Home Drive) is located next to the school. Bus line 153 (Downtown/Galleria) stops at Briar Forest and Briar Home.
^ ab"The main course." (Food for Thought).(Outback Steakhouse Inc., Westside High School, Entrepreneur 101: Realizing the American Dream, Houston, Texas)(Brief Article) Restaurants & Institutions, April 1, 2003, Vol.113(8), p.24(1).
^"Students to run on-campus Outback branch." (News Digests).(Brief Article) Nation's Restaurant News, March 3, 2003, Vol.37(9), p.20(1).
^Grossman, Wendy. "Tee Time." Houston Press. Thursday November 13, 2003. Retrieved December 8, 2010. 1.
This list is incomplete. This list only includes schools in the Houston city limits. Multiple schools with "Houston, Texas" addresses are not in the city limits.
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