N.I.C.E. Community Schools

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NICE Community School District is a public school district located in Ishpeming, Michigan The district is currently composed of one elementary school (Aspen Ridge Elementary School), one middle school (Aspen Ridge Middle School), and one high school (Westwood High School).

1 History
2 Westwood High School
3 Aspen Ridge Elementary and Middle School
4 External links

[edit] History

Nice Community Schools originally contained an older elementary and middle school, Ely Township School, but it was put to disuse after the merging of local schools into Aspen Ridge Elementary and Middle School.

[edit] Westwood High School

Founded in 1974, Westwood High School offers its students several courses, extracurricular activities, and athletics in which to engage. The school offers courses in Art and Design, Business, Foreign Languages (Spanish), Physical Education, Health, Industrial Technology, Mathematics, Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies. Outside of courses Westwood High School offers several extracurricular activities including Key Club, Business Professionals of America Drama, Yearbook, Forensics, High School Bowl, National Honor Society, and Student Council.

The Westwood Patriots (the athletic teams for the high school) also offer several programs to students. Students have the opportunity to join basketball, cheerleading, track, cross-country, football, volleyball, dance, golf, gymnastics, hockey, swimming, and volleyball. The school boasts a new sound speaker system installed in their gymnasium.

Westwood High School is the only school in the Upper Penninsula area to have an unnofficial parody website. The Westwood Wiki has been parodying teachers and students at Westwood High School since 2004. Although the website's disclaimer assures any likeness between portrayed figures and real life people is coincidental, there is an obvious link between its content and Westwood High School.