West Brook High School

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West Brook Senior High School
WBHS.jpg
Address
West Brook High School
8750 Phelan Boulevard

Beaumont
,
Texas
77706

United States
Coordinates 30°4′43″N94°11′47″W / 30.07861°N 94.19639°W / 30.07861; -94.19639
Information
Type Public High school
MottoYour stepping stone to a higher education.
Established1982
School district Beaumont Independent School District
SuperintendentShannon Allen, Ed. D.
PrincipalNicholas Phillips
Teaching staff117.33 (FTE) [1]
Grades9–12
Enrollment2,245 (2022–23) [1]
Student to teacher ratio19.13 [1]
Color(s)  
Athletics conference21-6A
Mascot Bruin Bear
NewspaperThe West Brook Times
YearbookThe Bruin
Website Official Website
[2]

West Brook Senior High School is a high school in the city of Beaumont, Texas. It is operated by the Beaumont Independent School District and was formed in 1982 as a court-ordered measure to integrate the schools of the formerly separate South Park Independent School District.

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West Brook is located at 8750 Phelan Boulevard. The school's official mascot is the Bruin Bear. [3]

History

West Brook was formed in 1982 from the court-ordered merger of two of the high schools in the former South Park Independent School District: the black Hebert High School, whose campus initially housed the ninth and tenth grades, and the almost all-white Forest Park High School, which initially housed the eleventh and twelfth grades. The students voted on the name and the mascot. [4] [5] The other majority-white high school in the district, South Park High School, was also merged into West Brook in 1986. [6]

West Brook is now located on the former Forest Park campus.

State football championship

In its first year, an integrated team from West Brook under the former Hebert coach, Alexander Durley, won the state 5A football championship. [5] [7] Durley died of cancer after two seasons as head football coach of the Bruins, and the school's former stadium was named Alex Durley Stadium in his honor. West Brook now plays home games at the Carrol A. "Butch" Thomas Educational Support Center, together with other city high schools. [8]

Bus accident

On March 29, 2006, the varsity girls' soccer team was traveling to a road game in Humble when their charter bus overturned on the highway outside Devers. Two girls were killed in the accident. The team and their parents subsequently helped pass what became known as Ashley and Alicia's Law, a state law requiring seat belts on all school buses purchased on or after September 1, 2010, and on all charter buses purchased on or after September 1, 2011. [9]

Demographics

The demographic breakdown of the 2,284 students enrolled for the 2021-2022 school year is as follows: [10]

Notable alumni

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