| Western Albemarle High School | |
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| Western Albemarle High School entrance | |
| Address | |
| 5941 Rockfish Gap Turnpike Crozet, Virginia, 22932 United States |
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| Information | |
| School type | Public high school |
| Founded | September 1977 |
| School district | Albemarle County Public Schools |
| Superintendent | Dr. Pamela Moran |
| Principal | Mr. Dave Francis |
| Assistant Principals | Mr. Greg Domecq Mr. Tim Driver Mrs. Bobbi Hughes |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 1051 (2007-08 [1]) |
| Language | English |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Color(s) | Blue and Gold |
| Athletics conference | Virginia High School League Jefferson District Region II |
| Mascot | Warriors
rival schools= Albemarle patriots, Monticello mustangs |
| Feeder schools | J. T. Henley Middle School |
| Website | WAHS Homepage |
Western Albemarle High School is a public high school located in Crozet, Virginia, United States, that opened in September 1977. The high school is often simply referred to as Western or WAHS (pronounced woz) by students and locals.
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WAHS's approximate enrollment is 1,050 students. It is situated at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains on a seventy-five acre site adjacent to Highway 250 and Interstate 64. The school is part of the Albemarle County Public School System, serving the western and central areas of Albemarle County.
It is fed into by J. T. Henley Middle School. Recently, Jack Jouett Middle School was redistricted so that its students attend Albemarle High School exclusively.
In January 2008, it was announced that Western was one of two schools (along with Murray Elementary) in the County that received the Governor’s Award for Educational Excellence. This was the highest honor in the new incentive program for schools and school divisions created by the Board of Education to advance Governor Kaine’s “competence to excellence” agenda.[2]
Also in 2008, the school was ranked 417 of 1358 of the top 5% of U.S. high schools by Newsweek, placing it in the 98th percentile of school quality.[3] It is also ranked in the top 10 of the state of Virginia.
Western Albemarle offers programs, for both boys and girls, in many sports. The school belongs to the Jefferson District of Region II of the Virginia High School League. The Albemarle track team, in 2011, sent several relay teams to the national track competition. In 2004-2005, the school won 21 district, regional, and state championships.[4]
In 2006, a 16-year-old Western Albemarle High School student and a 15-year-old Albemarle High School student were arrested after it was discovered that they were plotting to detonate explosives at their schools.[5] The students were both found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to use explosives to destroy a school house, and have been committed to the juvenile justice system.[6]
Western Albemarle High School also hosts the Destination ImagiNation tournament for the Jefferson District.