Westfield High School (Harris County, Texas)

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Westfield High School is a high school located in unincorporated Harris County, Texas, United States.

The school, which serves grades 9-12, is a part of the Spring Independent School District. 9th graders go to the "Westfield Ninth Grade Center" campus while 10-12 graders go to the main campus. The school, in the Westfield community, has a "Houston, Texas" postal address.

The school was built in 1976, and was originally called "Spring High South", serving the district's freshmen and sophomore students while the junior and senior students attended the main Spring High School campus. In the 1981-1982 school year it became a full four-year high school and its name was changed to "Westfield."

Westfield High School is accredited by the Texas Education Agency and the Southern Association for Secondary Schools and Colleges.

In the spring of 2002, the school received designation as a Recognized School by the Texas Education Agency. For the last two years, the Lone Star Cup has ranked Westfield in the top five schools for excellence in academics and athletics in Texas 5-A schools.

Approximately 3,200 students in grades 10-12 attend Westfield beginning in mid-August and ending in late May. About 1,500 students attend the Westfield 9th Grade Center. Most classes are 50 minutes long for seven periods a day. The fifth period is 70-minutes long to enable students to earn up to 7 credits per school year. The school year is divided into two, eighteen-week semesters.

Demographics

As of the 2006-2007 school year, the student ethnicity is as follows:
*51.5% African American
*32.3% Hispanic/Latino
*9.2% White (Non-Hispanic)
*6.3% Asian
*0.2% Native American

Advanced Placement and Honors Courses

Westfield High School offers various honors courses in math, English, social studies, science, and as well for certain elective courses.

The school also offers the following Advanced Placement courses:
*English Language
*English Literature
*Spanish Language
*Spanish Literature
*French Language
*Calculus AB
*Calculus BC
*Statistics
*Computer Science A
*Computer Science AB
*U.S. History
*World History
*European History
*Art History
*American Government and Politics
*Macroeconomics
*Biology
*Physics C: Mechanics
*Chemistry
*Psychology

Awards

*Over 100 National Merit Scholars the last five years
*21 students received Advanced Placement (AP) Scholar awards, 3 received the Advanced Placement Scholars with Honors Award, and 8 students received the Advanced Placement Scholars with Distinction Award for performance on the Advanced Placement Examinations.
*UIL District Academic Spring Meet champions four consecutive years.
*UIL Girl's Basketball State Champions 2003
*UIL Boy's Basketball Regional Quarter Finals 2002 (District Champs)
*UIL Football Quarter Finals 2002 (District Champs)
*Girl's Diving District Champion 2002
*Girl's Track District Champions 2002
*Boy's Tennis District Champs 2001, 2002
*Regional and National Honor in Scholastic Writing and Art Competition
*Madrigal Singers Superior Ratings Madrigal Festival 2002
*Treble Chamber 2nd Place Award Madrigal Festival 2002
*Band and Choir UIL Sweepstakes, Best in Class 2002
*John Phillip Sousa International Foundation "Sudler Flag of honor" International Band Award
*Five-Time UIL State Marching Band Champions
*Bands of America Grand National Marching Band Champions 2003
*Two time Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA) Concert Honor Band
*National Forensic League Students earned national honors in debate 2002
*JROTC awarded the Merit Achievement Award 2002
*Students earned national honors at ACT-SO Academic cultural competition
*Students earned state honors at MEDALS cultural competition
*JROTC Unit awarded Honor Unit with Distinction in 2007.
*Marching Band awarded with first place at the Texas Lonestar Competition in 2006
*WHS/Texas A&M University Professional Development School received national recognition by the Institute of Educational Inquiry for its exemplary student teaching program
*Marching Band awarded first place at USSBA in 2007 winning most of the captions

Extracurricular

Clubs
*Academic Challenge
*Academic Decathlon
*African American Study Group
*Amnesty International
*Art Society
*Asian Cultural Awareness
*Business Professionals of America
*Chess Club
*Christian Club
*Computer Science Team
*Distributive Education Clubs of America
*Family Career Community Leaders
*Fellowship of Christian Athletes
*Future Business Leaders of America
*Future Farmers of America
*Future Homemakers of America
*Gaming Society
*Health Occupational Students of America
*Hispanic Accent Forum
*Home Economics Related Occupations
*International Thespians
*Key Club
*Leo Club
*Literary Magazine
*Mu Alpha Theta
*Muslim Student Association
*National Forensic League
*Newspaper
*Operation Smile
*Partners
*PROUD
*Texas Association of Future Educators
*Together We Stand
*Yearbook

Athletics
*Boys Basketball
*Baseball
*Football
*Girls Basketball
*Swimming (Boys and Girls)
*Westfield Trainers
*Golf
*Track
*Soccer
*Tennis
*Softball

Band
*The Big Red Band

Cheerleading
*Cheerleading

Choir
*Choir

Honor Societies
*National Honor Society
*National Vocational Technical Honor Society
*Spanish National Honor Society
*National Art Society

JROTC
*Army JROTC

Lariettes
*Lariettes

Step Teams
*Westfield Duchesses
*Westfield Dukes

Student Government
*Student Council

Feeder Schools

The Following Middle Schools feed into Westfield HS: [http://www.springisd.org/default.aspx?name=attendance.2]
*Bammel Middle School
*Stelle Claughton Middle School
*Edwin M. Wells Middle School

The Following elementary schools feed into Westfield:
*Bammel
*Beneke
*Clark Primary
*Clark Intermediate
*Cooper
*Heritage
*Lewis
*Link
*Meyer
*Ponderosa
*Reynolds (Oak Creek)
*Thompson

Notable alumni

*Takia Starks — Women's basketball player [http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/5634271.html]
*Tony Ugoh — NFL player [http://blogs.chron.com/gamedaytexans/2008/02/houstonnative_tony_ugoh_praise.html]
*Kim Zmeskal - Gymnast [http://www.westfieldalumni.com/FamousAlumni_Information.asp?ID=274]
*Chad Fox - Major League Baseball Pitcher
*Chris Gaskill - Major League Baseball Pitcher [http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/history/draft/draft.jsp?year=1988&type=junreg]

External links

* [http://classroom.springisd.org/webs/whs.campus/ Westfield High School Homepage]
* [http://www.westfieldhsalumni.com/ Westfield High School Alumni Association]
* [http://www.westfieldalumni.com/ Independent Alumni Website]