Westfield High School (Harris County, Texas)

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**Westfield High School**
Established	1981
Type of institution	Public school
Principal	Dr. Julie Guillory (Main Campus) / Eric Wiestruck (9th Grade Center)
Enrollment	4000+
Location	Houston, Texas, United States
Colors	Red, white, and black
Mascot	Mustangs
School district	Spring ISD
Website	www.springisd.org

Westfield High School is a high school located in Houston, Texas.

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 has a Houston postal address and is not considered to be in "Spring".

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 1500 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.

1 Awards
2 Internet
3 Extracurricular
4 Feeder Schools
5 External links

[edit] 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 Swimming Regional Qualifiers 2002

Boy's swimming Regional Qualifiers 2002

Girl's Track District Champions 2002

Boy's Track Runner-up District Champs 2002

Boy's Tennis District Champs 2001, 2002

Boy's Regional Tennis Qualifier 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

National Forensic League State Qualifier in Original Oratory 2002

JROTC awarded the Merit Achievement Award 2002

Students earned national honors at ACT-SO Academic cultural competition

Students earned state honros at MEDALS cultural competition

Campus site of Academy of Finance Program

Campus site of Health Science Mentor Program

More than 85% of students involved in over 50 different extracurricular activities

School/Faculty Recognition

WHS/Texas A&M University Professional Development School received national recognition by the Institute of Educational Inquiry for its exemplary student teaching program.

Member of National Partnership for Family Involvement in Education

Site of Teacher Mentor Program (WHISPER) and mentor partner with Sam Houston State University

University partnership with Texas A&M University for teacher induction and training

[edit] Internet

In 2006, a video depicting the school's cheerleaders began to circulate on the internet. The video shows the cheerleaders on live news TV, when an accident happens and one of them is sent flying through the air and landing on her head. The video can be seen here: [1]

[edit] 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
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-StepMaster-Shermanisa Wardsworth
Westfield Dukes-StepMaster(s)-Joshua Brooks and Jamele Mason

Student Government

Student Council

[edit] Feeder Schools

The Following Middle Schools feed into Westfield HS: [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), and Thompson.