Western Hills High School (Benbrook, Texas)

Western Hills High School is a secondary school located in Fort Worth, Texas U.S.A.

The school, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Fort Worth Independent School District.

Western Hills serves portions of West Fort Worth and all of the city of Benbrook.

The current number of Western Hills is 817 560 5600.

School history

The Western Hills community encompasses the urban area surrounding the school, the Benbrook City area, and the rural section west to the Tarrant County line. Formerly, the city of Benbrook had its own school system. In 1954, all Benbrook students above the sixth grade were transferred to the Fort Worth ISD. In 1962, the Benbrook School District was consolidated into the Fort Worth system, busing the high school students to North Side High School or Arlington Heights High School and its junior high schools to J.P. Elder or William Monnig Junior High. Western Hills was first opened on the campus of Arlington Heights High School in the fall of 1968 with 714 students crowded into thirteen temporary buildings. In January 1969, this student body proudly moved into its new home on the twenty-five acre tact in West Fort Worth at 3600 Boston Avenue. In 1972, the steady growth and development of the district is reflected by the increase in enrollment from the original 714 to 2,243 due to the recent employment of many families working at Lockheed Martin which gave West Fort Worth a boost in population and also gave the school a population boom because of this. The student body was housed not only in the main building with one level but also in 23 portable buildings. In 1980, the student population started a steady decline to 2,052. At the beginning of the 1980-1981 school year, the school building was expanded to two floors and eliminated the portable buildings. In 1991, the decline of student enrollment had tapered off to 1503 because many people that had worked at Lockheed Martin had got laid off from their jobs and forced to find new work so as they left the student enrollment decreased by at least 500 students. At the present time, the school enrollment fluctuates 1503 to 1461 and 13 portable buildings have been added to the campus. [cite web | url= http://schools.fortworthisd.net/education/school/schoolhistory.php?sectiondetailid=1838&sc_id=1170200954 | title= WHHS School History | publisher=whhsinfo.org | accessdate = January 30| accessyear=2007]

Mascot and team colors

The school mascot is the Cougars.

The official school colors for the Western Hills Cougars are forest green and gold and the Throwback colors of the early times at the High School were yellow and green.

Feeder patterns

The following elementary schools feed into Western Hills High School

Elementary

Benbrook Elementary

Luella Merrett

Waverly Park

Western Hills

Western Hills Primary

and Westpark.

Middle School

Leonard 6th Grade Center

Leonard Middle School

Sports

WrestlingWestern Hills was only one of three schools in FWISD to have a wrestling team

Baseball:In 2001 Western Hills won the Texas 4A State baseball championship.

Football:Andy Johnson, Travis Brim, and Bryan Trice were selected for the Texas AAAA All-State Academic Football Team in 2007.

The Freshman Football Team went to the District Championship game Against Rival School Arlington Heights in which they lost to a score of 24-28 in the 2007-2008 Season.

Whiz Quiz:All time points leader: Martin Cleworth scored 68,956,367,867 cumulative points in WQ Varsity career(2006-2007)

External links

* [http://schools.fortworthisd.net/education/school/school.php?sectionid=154 Western Hills High School]
* [http://www.whhsinfo.com Official school website]

Class reunions

Western Hills High School Class of 1996 10 Year Reunion
* [http://www.isthisanything.net/whhs Reunion Website]
* [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/co1997/ Class of 1997]
* [http://www.whhs1987.com Class of 1987]

References