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=== Cheating scandal ===
=== Cheating scandal ===
In 2008, more than eighteen students were expelled or suspended as a result of a cheating scandal.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Rivera|first1=Carla|title=Scandal rocks private school|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2008/feb/27/local/me-harvard27|accessdate=29 March 2017|publisher=Los Angeles Times|date=27 February 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=William-Ross|first1=Linsday|title=Harvard-Westlake Students Expelled for Cheating|url=http://laist.com/2008/02/27/harvardwestlake.php|publisher=LAist|accessdate=29 March 2017|date=27 February 2008}}</ref>
In 2008, more than eighteen students were expelled or suspended as a result of a cheating scandal.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Rivera|first1=Carla|title=Scandal rocks private school|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2008/feb/27/local/me-harvard27|accessdate=29 March 2017|publisher=Los Angeles Times|date=27 February 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=William-Ross|first1=Linsday|title=Harvard-Westlake Students Expelled for Cheating|url=http://laist.com/2008/02/27/harvardwestlake.php|publisher=LAist|accessdate=29 March 2017|date=27 February 2008}}</ref>


== Attending Harvard-Westlake ==
== Attending Harvard-Westlake ==
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* [[Jarron Collins]], former [[National Basketball Association|NBA]] player<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gostanford.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/collins_jarron00.html|title=Jarron Collins profile|work=Go Stanford|accessdate=June 19, 2009|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711113725/http://www.gostanford.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/collins_jarron00.html|archivedate=July 11, 2011|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* [[Jarron Collins]], former [[National Basketball Association|NBA]] player<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gostanford.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/collins_jarron00.html|title=Jarron Collins profile|work=Go Stanford|accessdate=June 19, 2009|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711113725/http://www.gostanford.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/collins_jarron00.html|archivedate=July 11, 2011|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* [[Jason Collins]], former NBA player<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.biography.com/people/jason-collins-21213471|title=Jason Collins profile}}</ref>
* [[Jason Collins]], former NBA player<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.biography.com/people/jason-collins-21213471|title=Jason Collins profile}}</ref>
* [[Lily Collins]], actress, model, host<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS147459+25-Feb-2008+PRN20080225|title=Nickelodeon Taps Rising Star Lily Collins for Network Hosting Duties|date=February 25, 2008|publisher=Reuters|accessdate=June 19, 2009}}</ref>
* [[Lily Collins]], actress, model, host<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS147459+25-Feb-2008+PRN20080225|title=Nickelodeon Taps Rising Star Lily Collins for Network Hosting Duties|date=February 25, 2008|publisher=Reuters|accessdate=June 19, 2009}}</ref>
* [[Paul Cummins]], educator, founder of Crossroads School
* [[Paul Cummins]], educator, founder of Crossroads School
* [[Jamie Lee Curtis]], actress<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hw.com/filmfestival/PreviousFestivals/2006Festival.aspx |title=2006 Harvard-Westlake Film Festival |publisher=Hw.com |date=2006-04-21 |accessdate=2017-05-16}}</ref>
* [[Jamie Lee Curtis]], actress<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hw.com/filmfestival/PreviousFestivals/2006Festival.aspx |title=2006 Harvard-Westlake Film Festival |publisher=Hw.com |date=2006-04-21 |accessdate=2017-05-16}}</ref>

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Harvard-Westlake School
File:Harvard-Westlake School Logo.png
Location
Map
Los Angeles
,
California

United States
Information
TypeIndependent
MottoPossunt Quia Posse Videntur
trans.: They can because they think they can.
EstablishedHarvard School for Boys: 1900
Westlake School for Girls: 1904
Fully Merged as Harvard-Westlake: 1991
PresidentRichard B. Commons
Vice PresidentJohn Amato
Faculty195
Grades7–12
Head of SchoolJeanne M. Huybrechts, Ed.D.
Color(s)Red, Black, and White   
AthleticsCalifornia Interscholastic Federation Southern Section[1]
MascotWolverine
AccreditationWASC, NAIS, CAIS
2013 SAT average688 verbal/critical reading
703 math
707 writing[2]
NewspaperThe Chronicle
YearbookVox Populi
Student to faculty ratio8:1
Average class size13
Websitewww.hw.com
Middle School
Address
Map
700 North Faring Road

Los Angeles
,
 California

 USA
Information
Grades7–9
Enrollment727 (2009–2010)
Campus size12 acres (4.9 ha)

The former Administration Building, Middle School (demolished summer 2008)
Upper School
Address
Map
3700 Coldwater Canyon Avenue

Studio City
,
 California


 USA
Information
Grades10–12
Enrollment870 (2009–2010)
Campus size22 acres (8.9 ha)

Ted Slavin Field, Upper School

Harvard-Westlake School is an independent, co-educational university preparatory day school consisting of two campuses located in Los Angeles, California, (San Fernando Valley) with approximately 1,600 students enrolled in grades seven through twelve. Its two predecessor organizations began as for-profit schools before turning non-profit and eventually merging.

The school has its campuses in Holmby Hills and Studio City. The school is a member of the G20 Schools group.[3]

History

Harvard School for Boys

The Harvard School for Boys was established in 1900 by Grenville C. Emery as a military academy, located at the corner of Western Avenue and Venice Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. In 1911, it secured endorsement from the Episcopal Church becoming a non-profit organization. In 1937, the school moved to its present-day campus on Coldwater Canyon in Studio City after receiving a loan from Donald Douglas of the Douglas Aviation Company. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Harvard School gradually discontinued both boarding and its standing as a military academy, while continually expanding its enrollment, courses, classes, teachers and curriculum.[4]

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 downtown Los Angeles, California, as an exclusively female institution offering both elementary and secondary education. At the time, the school was a for-profit alternative to the already-established Marlborough School, which had been established as a non-profit before the turn of the century.

It moved to its present-day campus located in Holmby Hills, 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 ex officio capacity. In 1968 Westlake became exclusively a secondary school.[4]

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.[4]

Cheating scandal

In 2008, more than eighteen students were expelled or suspended as a result of a cheating scandal.[5][6]

Attending Harvard-Westlake

The campuses

Saint Saviour's Chapel

Currently, the school is split between the two campuses, with grades 7–9, the Middle School, located at the former Westlake campus in Holmby Hills and grades 10–12, the Upper School, located at the former Harvard campus in Studio City.[7]

The Middle School completed a four-year modernization effort in September 2008, replacing the original administration building,[8] 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 modernization project is 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 filled with atomic pianos for composing electronic music. As of November 2006, a fundraising campaign has commenced for the modernization of the Upper School.

Remnants of the former Middle School campus include the Marshall Center, which houses a gymnasium, weight room, and wrestling room, the 25-yard (23 m) swimming pool and diving boards, the 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 then renamed Wang Hall in honor of two parents who donated approximately $5,000,000 to fund the project.

The Upper School features the Munger Science Center and computer lab; the Rugby building which houses the English department, 300-seat theater, costume shop, and drama lab; the Seaver building, home to the foreign language and history departments as well as administrative offices and the visitor lobby; Chalmers, which houses the performing arts and math departments, book store, cafeteria, beloved sandwich window, and student lounge; Kutler, which houses the Brendan Kutler Center for Interdisciplinary Studies and Independent Research[9][10] and the Feldman-Horn visual arts studios, dark room, video labs, and gallery.

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 FieldTurf surface and a synthetic track and is used for football, soccer, track & field, lacrosse, and field hockey.[11] In 2007, lights were added to Ted Slavin Field in order to reduce the amount of travel needed to allow teams to practice.[12] The school also maintains an off-campus baseball facility, the O'Malley Family Field, in Encino, CA.

The Upper School campus also features the three-story Seeley G. Mudd Library and Saint Saviour's Chapel, a vestige from Harvard School for Boys' Episcopal days.

Tuition

In the early 1980s, annual tuition at the schools that now make up Harvard-Westlake was around $4,000; by 1983 or 1984, this figure surpassed $5,000.[13] For the 2013-2014 academic year, the annual tuition was $32,300, with typical costs for books and meals totaling an additional $2,000. In 2014-15, tuition was $33,500, the new student fee was $2,000, optional bus service for middle school students was $2,200-2,400, and other costs were estimated to be $2,000.[14] Harvard-Westlake allotted almost $7.8 million to financial aid for the 2011–2012 academic year. Nearly 20% of the student body received some form of assistance, with an average aid package of just under $23,000, or three-fourths of the tuition.[15]

Facts and figures

Academic achievement

In 2010, 566 Harvard-Westlake students took 1,736 Advanced Placement tests in 30 different subjects, and 90% scored 3 or higher.[citation needed] In addition, the class of 2011 had 90 students out of approximately 280 receive National Merit recognition, with 28 students receiving consideration as National Merit Semifinalists.[16]

Rankings

  • In 2002, Worth magazine ranked Harvard-Westlake number 34 out of thousands of secondary institutions across the country in sending children to top colleges and universities.[17]
  • In 2008, Harvard-Westlake was ranked one of America's 25 best independent schools according to www.prepreview.com, an education ranking aggregator.[18]
  • In 2008, Los Angeles magazine named Harvard-Westlake as one of the most elite prep schools in the Greater Los Angeles area[citation needed].
  • In 2010, Forbes magazine ranked Harvard-Westlake 12th among the country's top prep schools.[19]
  • In 2016, Niche ranked Harvard-Westlake 6th nationally among private schools.[20]
  • In 2017, Niche ranked Harvard-Westlake 4th nationally among private schools.[21]

Athletics

Harvard-Westlake fields 22 Varsity teams in the California Interscholastic Federation 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).

The 2015-2016 football team shared the Angelus League championship with Cathedral High School, the first league championship in football for the school since 2006.

Additionally, the Harvard-Westlake Boys Tennis team reclaimed their CIF championship title in 2017, and also currently holds a 188 match win streak in the mission league.

Notable alumni

See also

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