Congratulations to the West High community for being awarded WASC's highest accreditation status after the visit in March. This award gives West accreditation through June 30, 2019. Principal Ben Egan sent out the following memo to staff...

  Picture yourself driving with your friend on a perfect summer afternoon. The music is blasting, you’re singing along, but then your friend’s phone goes off and it’s a text from another friend you made plans with. You see your friend...

Each year, the West High community comes together to nominate teachers for the annual Teacher-of-the-Year Award. This year, the selection committee chose Mrs. Lange, one of West High's Art Teachers.    When selecting the recipient of this award,...

   Some kids inherit their dad’s blue eyes or their mother’s long blonde hair. However, for Thomas Oh (11) and Sabrina Lin (11), their parents gave them the gift of being talented dancers, as they won West High’s Best Dance Duo on Thursday, April...

As many students prepare for the weekend, some are beginning a long process of preparing campaign material for next week’s ASB Elections.   Last year, social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter advertised what candidates can do for the...

Wake up, go to school, go to the gym, sleep, do it all again– that is the life of a gymnast. Eri Tamada (11) has been doing gymnastics for thirteen years. She started her career at South Bay Gymnastics where she learned her basics and was introduced...

It’s the final week before spring break as students sit restlessly in their classes, pleading the clock to move an inch quicker. This week, students were given the opportunity to unwind by participating in our annual Spring Spirit Week. On Monday,...

Booker DeWitt is a man out of his element — a ‘fish’ 20,000 feet above water. Similar to the previous Bioshock games, the protagonist enters a lighthouse and, in doing so, is sent to the new and strange world of Colombia. With his arrival, a series...

West High’s Speech and Debate team has had great success this year, and is going on to the State Championship. To raise money for this event, the team’s showcase took place on both Thursday and Friday, March 28th and 29th in the Scarlata Theatre. The...

Most parents would say that every day brings new adventures in the parenting world like helping with homework or taking care sick kids. However, some parents are making their own parenting choices such as selling their toddler to porn and escaping over...

On Wednesday, March 20th, the California Distinguished School (CDS) Award’s committee visited the campus as a validation visit to consider West High as one of California’s Distinguished Schools. This visit, unlike that of the Western Association of...

On February 12th, just over a month ago, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) tested two separate nuclear warheads underground. Just a month before, Kim Jong-Un, Kim Jong Il’s successor, sent the go-ahead for the ‘peaceful’ launch...