Westchester Enriched Sciences Magnets

Westchester Enriched Sciences Magnets
Address
Map
7400 West Manchester Avenue

,
90045

United States
Coordinates33°57′30″N 118°25′43″W / 33.95833°N 118.42861°W / 33.95833; -118.42861
Information
TypePublic school
MottoThe Future of Scientific Thought... Today
Established1957
School districtLos Angeles Unified School District
PrincipalJanet Mack[1]
Faculty100
Teaching staff43.96 (FTE)[2]
Enrollment899 (2018-19)[2]
Student to teacher ratio20.45[2]
CampusSuburban Los Angeles International Airport
Color(s)Red, Black, and White
     
Athletics conferenceCIF Los Angeles City Section
Western League
MascotChester the Comet & Chester the Dog
NicknameComets
Websitewww.westchestercomets.org

Westchester Enriched Sciences Magnets (WESM) is a magnet high school in the Los Angeles Unified School District, West Region. [3] It is located in Westchester (Los Angeles), a neighborhood adjacent to Los Angeles International Airport and bordered by Playa Vista to the north, Inglewood to the east, El Segundo to the south, and Playa del Rey to the west. Until the 2010–11 school year, the school was a comprehensive high school known as Westchester High School.

  1. ^ "WESM home page". Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  2. ^ a b c "WESM Health/Sports Medicine". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved May 13, 2020.
  3. ^ Sandra Poindexter and Ben Welsh (April 13, 2011). "Westchester High to become magnet school amid cost, ethnicity concerns". LA Times. Retrieved August 11, 2012.