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Woodside High School | |
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Address | |
199 Churchill Ave. , 94062 | |
Coordinates | 37°26′40″N122°13′55″W / 37.44444°N 122.23194°W |
Information | |
Type | Comprehensive public high school |
Established | 1958 |
School district | Sequoia Union High School District |
Superintendent | James Lianides |
CEEB code | 053808 |
Principal | Karen Van Putten |
Staff | 104.53 (FTE) [1] |
Grades | 9–12 |
Number of students | 1,848 (2017–18) [1] |
Student to teacher ratio | 17.68 [1] |
Campus type | Suburban |
Color(s) | Orange, black, and white |
Fight song | Sons of Westwood |
Mascot | Wilbur the Wildcat |
Nickname | Wildcats |
Rivals | Sequoia High School |
Newspaper | The Paw Print [2] |
Yearbook | Wildcat |
Website | woodsidehs.org |
Woodside High School is a public high school in Woodside, California, United States, on the border with Redwood City. It is part of the Sequoia Union High School District (SUHSD).
Woodside serves students from the surrounding communities of Portola Valley, Woodside and Redwood City. It shares a name to another school called Woodside High School in England.
The school's football team won the California Interscholastic Federation's Central Coast Section title in 2004. [3]
More recently, the school's girls' soccer team won the California Interscholastic Federation's Central Coast Section title in 2011 in a 0–0 tie with Santa Teresa High School. [4]
2015–2016 [5]
Hispanic | White | Asian | Two or more races | African American | Pacific Islander | Filipino | American Indian | Not reported |
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990 | 579 | 44 | 42 | 36 | 24 | 20 | 6 | 40 |
55.6% | 32.5% | 2.5% | 2.4% | 2% | 1.3% | 1.1% | 0.3% | 2.2% |
SAT scores for 2014–2015 [6] | |||
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Critical Reading average | Math average | Writing average | |
Woodside High | 500 | 510 | 499 |
District | 544 | 563 | 544 |
Statewide | 489 | 500 | 484 |
2013 Academic Performance Index | ||
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2009 base API [7] | 2013 growth API [8] | Growth in the API from 2009 to 2013 |
750 | 758 | 8 |
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