Westland High School

Last updated
Westland High School
Westland High School Logo.png
Address
Westland High School
146 Galloway Road

, ,
43119

United States
Coordinates region:US-OH 39°56′53″N83°8′59″W / 39.94806°N 83.14972°W / 39.94806; -83.14972 Coordinates: region:US-OH 39°56′53″N83°8′59″W / 39.94806°N 83.14972°W / 39.94806; -83.14972
Information
Type Public, Coeducational high school
Established1970
School district South-Western City Schools
SuperintendentBill Wise [1]
PrincipalGreg Costello
Faculty146 [2]
Teaching staff89.34 (FTE) [3]
Grades 9-12
Enrollment1,835 (2018-19) [3]
Student to teacher ratio20.54 [3]
Color(s)   Forest Green and White
Athletics conference Ohio Capital Conference [1]
Team nameCougars [1]
Accreditation North Central Association of Colleges and Schools [4]
Website whs.swcsd.us

Westland High School is a public high school located in Galloway, Ohio. It is one of 4 high schools in the South-Western City Schools District. SWCS is located in the southwestern portion of Franklin County in Columbus, Ohio. Westland High School was opened in 1970.

Contents

History

Founding

In 1969, Pleasant View Junior/Senior High School became a middle school when the newly built, Westland High School was constructed due to the need for more space to meet population growth in the Southwest Columbus region.

Current Building

In the 2011–2012 school year, the building received minor renovations to lighting systems and a new ventilation system was put into place after an incident at the school.

There are plans in place to renovate the roof of Westland throughout the summer of 2019.

The cafeteria has a mezzanine, known to students as "The Mez", where seniors sit during their lunch period.

School Colors

The school colors, forest green and white, are picked from two middle schools, that feed into Westland. The school color of white is from Norton Middle School while forest green is from Pleasant View Middle.

Sports

Rivalries

Westland High School has both inactive and active rivalries between intra-district and other city schools. The major rivalry is between Westland High School and Central Crossing High School, another SWCS school.

Central Crossing

Westland has a current rivalry with intra-district Central Crossing High School, and the two schools played each other for the first time in 2008.

Grove City

The school had a traditional rivalry with its sister school, Grove City High School. The two teams even played football games at Cooper Stadium, the city's former minor league baseball park, but Grove City and Westland are no longer allowed to play one another because of fights that emerged during games. The two schools played each other annually from 1970 to 1973 and from 1981 to 1998. They have not played since. Westland is crosstown rivals with the former Hilliard High School, now Hilliard Davidson High School.

Football

The Westland Football program is currently coached by Rick Rios and plays in the Ohio Capital Conference's Central Division. The Cougars play their home games at Westland Field, which seats around 5,000 people.

History

Since its first football season in 1970, Westland has an all-time record of 131-257-2. Westland won OCC titles in 1970, 1992, and 1993. From 1990 to 1994 Head coach Tom Greer won 32 games and several players are ned all conference honors. Westland lost its football program during the 2009 season with the August failure of the Southwestern City School District levy. Football returned to Westland in 2010.

Clubs

Cultural Diversity Club, Math Club, Spanish Club, Key Club, Art Club, Drama Club, International Thespian Society, Student Council, Student Government, Chess Club, Jobs for Grads, Student Advisory Board, National Honor Society, French Club, Marching Band, Choir, Concert Band Symphonic Band, Air Force JROTC(OH-011), Jazz Band, Orchestra, Gay-Straight Alliance, Crossroads, Renaissance, Anime Club

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hilliard, Ohio</span> City in Ohio, United States

Hilliard is a city in Franklin County, Ohio, United States. The population was 37,114 at the 2020 census. It is a suburb of Columbus and part of Norwich Township. Hilliard is home to the Early Television Museum, the second largest First Responders Park in the United States, and Heritage Rail Trail. Hilliard also has the only flag pole from the World Trade Center that is not in a museum. The flag pole is located in front of the fire department on Northwest Parkway. The Hilliard Historical Society maintains a historical village near the Franklin County Fairgrounds.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bexley High School</span> Public, coeducational high school in Bexley, Ohio, , United States

Bexley High School (BHS) is a public high school located in Bexley, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Worthington Kilbourne High School</span> Public, coeducational high school in Columbus, , Ohio, United States

Worthington Kilbourne High School (WKHS) is a public school located in Columbus, Ohio, United States, and is part of the Worthington City School District. Kilbourne was named after James Kilbourne, the founder of the city of Worthington. The school colors are black and royal blue and a gray wolf named "Lobo" is the mascot. The current principal is Aric Thomas.

Thomas Worthington High School (TWHS) is a public school in Worthington, Ohio. The school was named Worthington High School until 1991, when sister school, Worthington Kilbourne High School, opened.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Central Crossing High School</span> Public, coeducational high school in Grove City, Ohio, United States

Central Crossing High School is a high school in Grove City, Ohio. It is one of four high schools in the South-Western City Schools district, the others being Franklin Heights High School, Grove City High School, and Westland High School.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Scott High School (Ohio)</span> Public, coeducational high school in Toledo, , Ohio, United States

Jesup Wakeman Scott High School is a public high school located in the Old West End neighborhood of Toledo, Ohio. It is part of Toledo Public Schools. It was named for a former editor of The Toledo Blade from 1844 to 1847. Scott was an entrepreneur, philanthropist and well-known civic leader who envisioned Toledo as the "Future Great City of the World." The current high school building was built in 1913. After receiving a $1 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Scott High School began a transformation from a comprehensive high school to four small learning academies. Each academy, or "Small School" is based on a different career pathway.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">East High School (Columbus, Ohio)</span> Public, coeducational high school in Columbus, Ohio, United States

East High School is a public high school located on the near east side of Columbus, Ohio at 1500 E. Broad Street. It is a part of Columbus City Schools. It was originally constructed in 1922.

Mifflin High School is a public high school located on the northeast side of Columbus, Ohio. It has been part of Columbus City Schools since the early 1970s. Previously it was a separate school district. The original high school was located at 3000 Agler Rd in Columbus and is now Mifflin Middle School.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Whetstone High School (Columbus, Ohio)</span> Public, coeducational high school in Columbus, Ohio, United States

Whetstone High School is a public high school located at 4405 Scenic Drive in Columbus, Ohio. It is a part of Columbus City Schools and the neighborhood of Clintonville. Whetstone's mascot is the Brave. The school opened in 1961 to accommodate the overflow from North High School. The expanding student base brought on by growth in north Columbus created the need for an additional school.

The South-Western City School District is Ohio's sixth largest public school district located southwest of the city of Columbus. The district serves nearly 20,000 students throughout the southwest quadrant of Franklin County, including the cities of Galloway, Georgesville, Grove City, and Urbancrest. The district also serves all of Franklin, Jackson, Pleasant, and Prairie townships and a portion of Columbus.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Franklin Heights High School</span> Public, coeducational high school in Columbus, , Ohio, United States

Franklin Heights High School is a high school in Columbus, Ohio. It is 1 of 5 high schools in the South-Western City Schools district. The mascot is the Golden Falcon. Franklin Heights derives many students from the neighborhood Riverbend, Columbus, Ohio. It has many boys and girls athletic teams, a marching band, drama club, and an NJROTC unit.

Grove City High School is a high school in Grove City, Ohio, United States. It is one of the five high schools in the South-Western City Schools district. It houses about 1,900 students in grades 9-12. Formerly Jackson High School, Grove City High School moved from the former Park Street building in 1970, where it had been located since 1929. Grove City High School was chartered in the fall of 1895. The average classroom experience of GCHS teachers is 15.89 years. 46 teachers have bachelor's degrees and 63 have master's degrees or beyond. Special training has included TESA, Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) training, site-based leadership training, integrated learning, alternative assessment, and alternative classroom management. Grove City High School has been A School Of Excellence for five years now.

Hilliard City School District is a public school district with its headquarters in Columbus, Ohio. The school district contains all of what was once Norwich and Brown townships. This includes Hilliard.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hilliard Davidson High School</span> Public, coeducational high school in Hilliard, Ohio, United States

Hilliard Davidson High School is a public high school in the Hilliard City School District in Hilliard, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus, Ohio. It is the first of three high schools in the district, the other two being Hilliard Darby High School and Hilliard Bradley High School. The school is located at 5100 Davidson Road, just north of Hilliard Weaver Middle School. The mascot is the Wildcat, and the school's colors are royal blue and white.

Winton Woods High School is a public high school located in Forest Park, just north of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. It is the only high school in the Winton Woods City School District. Winton Woods High School serves about 1,560 students from Village of Greenhills, the City of Forest Park, and parts of Springfield Township.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mentor High School</span> Public, coeducational high school in Mentor, , Ohio, United States

Mentor High School is a public high school located in Mentor, Ohio, United States. It is the only high school in the Mentor Exempted Village School District. At one time, it was the largest high school in Ohio based on single building enrollment. For the 2008–2009 school year, it shifted from a three-year school to a four-year high school, serving approximately 2,700 students. Mentor High School educates students from Mentor, Mentor-on-the-Lake, and parts of Kirtland Hills and Concord Township in Lake County, Ohio. Both middle schools from the Mentor Exempted Village School district, Memorial Middle School, Shore Middle School, feed into Mentor High School. The third middle school, Ridge Middle School, closed before the 2018–2019 school year had commenced, and has since been repurposed as an elementary school.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Milford High School (Ohio)</span> Public, coeducational high school in Milford, Clermont, Ohio, United States

Milford High School is a college preparatory, public high school in Milford, Ohio, United States. It is the only high school in the Milford Exempted Village School District, the largest building of the district's eight school buildings, and a larger high school in Clermont County, Ohio. The high school and the Milford Exempted Village School District serve the City of Milford and parts of Miami Township and Union Township.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hilliard Bradley High School</span> Public, coeducational high school in Hilliard, Ohio, United States

Hilliard Bradley High School is the newest high school in the Hilliard City School District in Hilliard, Ohio. It is one of three high schools in the district along with Hilliard Davidson High School and Hilliard Darby High School. The school is located at 2800 Walker Road, just north of Brown Elementary School. The mascot is the Jaguar and the school's colors are royal blue, black and silver. Bradley High School is named in honor of Raymond K. Bradley, a former Hilliard Board of Education member and a lifelong Brown Township resident. It is the school that students from Hilliard Memorial Middle School will attend in High School.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ohio Capital Conference</span>

The Ohio Capital Conference is a high school athletic conference located in Central Ohio. It comprises 32 public high schools located primarily in suburban Columbus, Ohio, encompassing Delaware, Fairfield, Franklin, Licking, and Union counties. The league is geographically divided into four divisions of six teams each and one division of eight teams (Cardinal). Twenty-three schools compete in the OHSAA's Division I classification for football while eight schools compete in Division II. All conference members compete in the Central District postseason tournaments prior to the regional and state tournaments.

This is a list of high school athletic conferences in the Central Region of Ohio, as defined by the OHSAA. Because the names of localities and their corresponding high schools do not always match and because there is often a possibility of ambiguity with respect to either the name of a locality or the name of a high school, the following table gives both in every case, with the locality name first, in plain type, and the high school name second in boldface type. The school's team nickname is given last.

References

  1. 1 2 3 OHSAA. "Ohio High School Athletic Association member directory" . Retrieved 2010-02-17.
  2. "Our Staff - WHS". Archived from the original on 2014-11-11.
  3. 1 2 3 "Westland High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved March 19, 2021.
  4. NCA-CASI. "NCA-Council on Accreditation and School Improvement". Archived from the original on September 23, 2009. Retrieved 2010-02-17.