| Westside High School | |
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&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:WestsideHSHouston.JPG) Front of Westside High School | |
| Address | |
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14201 Briar Forest Drive , 77077 | |
| Coordinates | 29°45′34″N 95°38′16″W / 29.75944°N 95.63778°W |
| Information | |
| School type | Suburban public secondary school |
| Founded | 2000 |
| School district | Houston Independent School District |
| Principal | Dr. Alisa C. Zapata[1] |
| Teaching staff | 156.21 (FTE)[2] |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 2,882 (2022–23)[2] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 18.45[2] |
| Language | English |
| Color(s) | |
| 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, Lakes of Parkway, Parkway Villages, and Briarhills |
| Website | www |
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.[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.
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