Harvard-Westlake School Location, United States Information Type Motto Possunt Quia Posse Videntur trans.: They can because they think they can. Established Harvard School for Boys: 1900 Westlake School for Girls: 1904 Fully Merged as Harvard-Westlake: 1991 President Richard B. Commons Associate Head of School Elizabeth Resnick Faculty 195 Grades 7–12 Color(s) Red, Black, and White Athletics Mascot Accreditation, CAIS 2013 SAT average 688 verbal/critical reading 703 math 707 writing Newspaper Yearbook Vox Populi Student to faculty ratio 8:1 Average class size 13 Website. Harvard School for Boys The Harvard School for Boys was established in 1900 by as a, on the site of a field located at the corner of Western Avenue and Sixteenth Street (now ) in Los Angeles, California.
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In 1937, the school moved to its present-day campus at the former Hollywood Country Club on Coldwater Canyon in Studio City after receiving a $25,000 ($426,000 in current dollar terms) loan from aviation pioneer. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Harvard School gradually discontinued both boarding and its standing as a military academy, while expanding its enrollment, courses, classes, teachers, and curriculum. Westlake School for Girls The Westlake School for Girls was established in 1904 by Jessica Smith Vance and Frederica de Laguna in what is now, California, as an exclusively female institution offering both elementary and secondary education. It was so-named because it was near Westlake Park, now known as. At the time, the school was a for-profit alternative to the already-established, which had been established as a non-profit before the turn of the century.
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It moved to its present-day campus located on North Faring Road in, California, in 1927. The school was purchased by Sydney Temple, whose daughter, Helen Temple Dickinson, was headmistress until 1966, when Westlake became a non-profit institution. The Temple family owned the school until 1977, with Mrs. Dickinson serving in an capacity. In 1968 Westlake became exclusively a secondary school. Merger As both schools continued to grow in size towards the late 1980s, and as gender exclusivity became less of a factor both in the schools' reputations and desirability, the trustees of both Harvard and Westlake effectuated a merger in 1989. The two institutions had long been de facto sister schools, and interacted socially.
Complete integration and coeducation began in 1991. Cheating scandal In 2008, six sophomores were expelled and more than a dozen other students faced suspensions as a result of a cheating scandal. Currently, the school is split between the two campuses, with grades 7–9, the Middle School, located at the former Westlake campus in and grades 10–12, the Upper School, located at the former Harvard campus in. The Middle School completed a four-year modernization in September 2008, replacing the original administration building, the library, and the instrumental music building. The campus now features a new library, two levels of classrooms in the Academic Center, the new Seaver Science Center, a turf field, a new administration office, a putting green, a long jump pit, and a large parking lot. Another significant addition of the project was the Bing Performing Arts Center which features a two-level, 800-seat theater, a suite of practice rooms, a few large classrooms for band, orchestra, and choir classes, a black box theater, a dance studio, and a room with atomic pianos for composing electronic music. Remnants of the former Middle School campus include the Marshall Center, which houses a gymnasium, weight room, and wrestling room, a 25-yard (23 m) swimming pool and diving boards, an outdoor basketball court, and a tennis court.
Reynolds Hall, an academic building which is home to history, foreign language, and visual arts classes, began a modernization effort in June 2014 to be completed by September 2015. The building was named Wang Hall in honor of two parents who donated approximately $5,000,000 to fund the project. Saint Saviour's Chapel The athletic facilities include Taper Gymnasium, used for volleyball and basketball as well as final exams; Hamilton Gymnasium, the older gymnasium still used for team practices and final exams; Copses Family Pool, a 50-meter Olympic size facility with a team room and stadium for viewing events for the aquatics program; and Ted Slavin Field, which features an artificial surface and a synthetic track and is used for football, soccer, track & field, lacrosse, and field hockey. In 2007, lights were added to Ted Slavin Field. The school also maintains an off-campus baseball facility, the O'Malley Family Field, in. The Upper School campus also features the three-story Seeley G. Mudd Library and, a vestige from Harvard School for Boys' Episcopal days.
In the early 1980s, annual tuition at the schools that now make up Harvard-Westlake was around $4,000; by 1983/1984, this figure surpassed $5,000 ($12,000 in current dollar terms). For the 2018-19 academic year, the annual tuition was $38,400, the new student fee was $2,000, optional bus service was $2,450-2,550, and other costs such as books, meals, and activities were estimated to be $2,500-3,500. Harvard-Westlake provided $11 million in in 2018. That year, approximately 20% of the student body received financial aid, which averaged $27,000. Academic achievement.
In 2017, 679 Harvard-Westlake students took 1,832 tests in 28 different subjects, and 87% scored 3 or higher. In addition, the class of 2011 had 90 students out of approximately 280 receive recognition, with 28 students receiving consideration as. Rankings. In 2002, ranked Harvard-Westlake number 34 out of thousands of secondary institutions across the country in sending children to top colleges and universities. In 2008, Harvard-Westlake was ranked one of America's 25 best independent schools according to www.prepreview.com, an education ranking aggregator. In 2008, named Harvard-Westlake as one of the most elite prep schools in the. In 2010, ranked Harvard-Westlake 12th among the country's top prep schools.
In 2016, ranked Harvard-Westlake 6th nationally among private schools. In 2017, Niche ranked Harvard-Westlake 4th nationally among private schools. In 2018, Niche ranked Harvard-Westlake 2nd nationally among private schools. Harvard-Westlake fields 22 Varsity teams in the Southern Section, as well as teams on the Junior Varsity, Club, and Junior High levels. The school won back-to-back California tennis championships (1997–98).
Additionally, the Harvard-Westlake Boys Tennis team reclaimed their CIF championship title in 2017. The 2015–16 football team shared the Angelus League championship with, the first league championship in football for the school since 2006. In 2009, the men's and women's fencing team won its seventh consecutive league title.
In 2013, the baseball team won the CIF Southern Section championship and was named Baseball America’s Team of the Year. From 1991 to 2014, the school won 19 swimming and diving league titles, and one CIF championship. In 2016 the school won the Boys Basketball CIF State Division IV championship, and in 2017, Harvard-Westlake Boys Basketball won the Southern Section 1A championship. In 2017, the boys tennis team won the CIF-SS Division 1 championship. Notable alumni.
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