Westview High School (Beaverton, Oregon)

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Westview High School
Established 1994
Type Public secondary
Principal Matthew Coleman
Faculty 111
Students 2,700 (2007)
Grades 9–12
Location Portland, Oregon, USA
Oversight Beaverton School District
Campus Suburban
Colors Red, Silver, and Blue
Mascot Wildcats
Website www.beavton.k12.or.us/westview

Westview High School is a suburban high school in Portland, Oregon. It opened in 1994 and its first graduating class was in June 1996. It is the largest of 9 high schools in the Beaverton School District. The school currently offers Advanced Placement testing and courses. It belongs to the Metro League for interscholastic athletics and activities. Westview is the largest high school in the Beaverton School District and one of the largest in the state of Oregon.It also has a newspaper called the Prowl.

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[edit] Students

Of the 2,208 students at Westview in 2002-2003, 6.7% required ESL education. Westview had a 3.9% dropout rate in 2002-2003. Westview has about now 2798 students this year in the 2007 school year

[edit] Notable Alumni

[edit] SAT scores

Year Math Critical Reading
1997/1998 557 539
1998/1999 553 543
1999/2000 554 539
2000/2001 542 537
2001/2002 551 544
2002/2003 564 554
2003/2004 567 553

In 2007, Westview High School had a total of 17 National Merit Award-Winners, the most in its history. Three out of five of Oregon's State AP Scholars for 2007 came from Westview. [1]

[edit] Faculty

Westview employs 135 teachers with an average of 11.9 years of experience. 78% have earned at least a masters degree. In addition, the school employs 4 administrators, 17 instructional assistants and 34 other staff members.

[edit] Curriculum

Westview offers the following Advanced Placement courses:

The school also offers the following 'challenge' courses, taught in conjunction with Portland State University:

  • AP Calculus
  • Senior Inquiry
  • Spanish V

Westview offers the following foreign language programs:

[edit] Extracurricular offerings

[edit] Clubs and Activities

[edit] Westview Robotics Team/Club

In 2005, the team won the Rookie All Star Award at the Pacific Northwest Regional held at the Portland Colliseum, and a seat at the FIRST Robotics Championship in Atlanta [2]. At the Championship, the Westview Team 1510 placed second in the qualifying rounds in the Curie Division, receiving the Highest Rookie Seed Award. In the finals their alliance (teams 337, 1510 & 85) finished in second place, receiving the Curie Division Finalist Award. In 2006 they participated in both the Pacific Northwest Regional, where they won the Xerox Creativity Award, the Woodie Flowers Award, and made it to the quarter finals with their alliance (teams 604, 1510,& 847), and the Las Vegas Regional. The Xerox Creativity Award celebrates creative design, use of a component, or a creative or unique strategy of play and the Woodie Flowers Award was presented by Small Parts, Inc. to Coach Williane Tenca to celebrate an outstanding engineer or teacher. The students choose and write about a person on their team who best demonstrates excellence in teaching science, math, and creative design. One is presented at each Regional. Click here for the team website

[edit] Westview Winter Percussion/Drumline

The westview winter percussion ensemble maintained an undefeated season in 2006 and were crowned the WGI Regional Champions. The westview winter percussion ensemble also flew to Dayton, Ohio to compete in the 2007 WGI World percussion/guard championships. The ensemble performed "Magnificent Sevens", a piece that was entirely in 7/4, 7/8, and 7/16 time. The ensemble competed against 48 other ensembles, and placed fifth in the world in the Scholastic A class. In 2008, the Westview Winter Percussion ensemble performed an abstract piece entitled "Industrial Zen"--featuring the music of John Adams and Lyle Mays. Percussion writers include Ronnie LaGrone and Eric Swanson. Instruction and design by Josh Madrid and Ronnie LaGrone.

[edit] Speech/Debate Team (Forensics)

The Westview Forensics Team is currently the largest in the Northern Oregon district, and has found success under the guidance of Coach Trudi Harte. The team won 1st place at the Linfield College Invitational in 2006 and 2007. The team took 2nd place at the University of Oregon Tournament in both 2006 and 2007.

Westview High School has also won the Northern Oregon District Tournament for four years in a row, sending outstanding students to the National Tournament. In 2006, the team sent five members to nationals in Dallas, Texas. In 2007, nine team members qualified for nationals in Wichita, Kansas, and in 2008, three students qualified for nationals in Las Vegas, Nevada. At the 2007 Northern Oregon District Tournament the team was also awarded a National Excellence Award by the National Forensics League.

The 2006 and 2007 season both ended with a State Championship Title in the Oregon School Activities Association [OSAA] State Competition. In 2008, Westview High School won 4th place in the 6A division of the OSAA State Championships and individual state titles in Extemporaneous Speaking and Public Forum Debate.

[edit] Westview Awareness to Action

Awareness to Action is a club that focuses on raising awareness on global crises. Through a partnership with the nonprofit organization Nomad Charities, Awareness to Action has adopted two sister schools in Kibwezi, Kenya.

In the Spring of 2007, the club raised $20,000 from a school-wide "Walk-a-Thon" to build a well in their sister school in Kibewsi, Kenya for clean water. In previous years, Awareness to Action also ran a school supplies drive, supporting more than 500 students in Kibwezi for two years worth of supplies.

The club has also run district-wide summits on issues surrounding AIDS in 2007 and a summit on global crises in 2008.

[edit] Westview International Culinary Club

The International Culinary Club (ICC) was a club few people knew of. In fact, after 2006, the club may have gone under as the President graduated and the supervising teacher retired from Westview. Members paid only $10 a year and enjoyed both creating international dishes and eating them too! Some examples of dishes that ICC cooked included Irish Soda Bread for St. Patrick's Day, Spring Rolls for Chinese New Year, and a baked Banana dish native to Africa.

[edit] Westview Theatre Department

Directed by Ms. Carolyn Reid, the Westview theatre department produces over 6 productions each year. The school boasts a student-led Thespian Club, a large auditorium with fly-space, and a former professional technical director Mr. Derek Lane. The theatre department involves many students and parents each year, and prides itself on offering many opportunities for student participation, whether it be acting, technical, directorial, or otherwise. The department's season this year includes: Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Anatomy of Gray, Give my Regards to Broadway, Into the Woods, The Honorable Urashima Taro, As you Like it, and the One-Act Play Festival.

[edit] Sports and Activities

[edit] External links and references

[edit] References

  1. ^ Oregonian, January 10 2008, Westview High score with three AP Scholars by Melissa Navas http://www.oregonlive.com/metrowest/oregonian/beaverton/index.ssf?/base/metro_west_news/119958631163260.xml&coll=7
  2. ^ http://www.oregonlive.com/metrowest/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/metro_west_news/1111143530111471.xml
  3. ^ http://usacamps.com/pdf/Nationals/SN_results_05.pdf results
  4. ^ Ulmer, Jerry (02-15-2008), “Girls swimming: Westview dominates pool”, The Oregonian, <http://blog.oregonlive.com/oregonianpreps/2008/02/girls_swimming_westview_domina.html> 
  5. ^ Hellman, Nathan (02-15-2008), “Boys swimming: After 23 year drought, Scots have title again”, The Oregonian, <http://blog.oregonlive.com/oregonianpreps/2008/02/boys_swimming_after_23_year_dr.html> 
  6. ^ Oregon Water Polo - 2000's Championships

Neal, Emily, Emily Wirsig, and Sarah Fagin, eds. One Day At a Time. Vol. 12. 2006. 30.

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