The Washington Post ranked Harvard-Westlake the 91st most challenging high school in the country in its annual Challenge Index on May 5, which is based on Advanced Placement courses.
The list is compiled...
The Faculty Academic Committee made a formal recommendation to President Rick Commons to limit the number of Advance Placement courses that upper school students can take and to no longer provide additional...
President Rick Commons will share the findings of HR Matrix’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Climate Assessment with faculty Jan. 24, he said in an email to all faculty Jan. 4.
Commons did not want...
Prefect Council screened a video during senior class meeting Friday explaining the mechanics of the Honor Board due to a recent Chronicle article, Head Prefects said. An alumna also shared a story of...
Effective July 1, Laura D. Ross will become the new Head of Upper School, leaving her position as Head of Upper School at the Greenhill School in Dallas, President Rick Commons announced in an email to...
Effective July 1, Laura D. Ross will become the new Head of Upper School, leaving her position as Head of Upper School at the Greenhill School in Dallas, President Rick Commons announced in an email to...
Effective July 1, Laura D. Ross will become the new head of upper school, leaving her position as head of upper school at the Greenhill School in Dallas, President Rick Commons announced in an email to...
One moment Jessica Dickman ’17 was at a concert with her friend, watching as a band member dove off the stage. The next, everything went dark.
After the band member landed on her and Dickman passed...
After the retirement of Head of School Jeanne Huybrechts, the administration will restructure, with President Rick Commons adding the position of head of school to his title and Interim Head of School...
After Sophie Tippl ’17 received her full schedule with teachers for her junior year, she could not help but worry.
Her friends had warned her about one teacher who had a reputation as one of the most...
The National Merit Scholarship Corporation named 26 seniors as some of the 16,000 National Merit Semifinalists based on their PSAT scores.
Last year, the class of 2017 took the new PSAT, which is 35 minutes...
A team of administrators, deans and faculty narrowed the search for a new head of the Upper School to eight candidates and expects to make an appointment at least before Thanksgiving.
Two of the eight...
Vice President of School John Amato will leave Harvard-Westlake to take a new post as the Interim Head of John Thomas Dye School, JTD Board of Trustees President J. David Tracy announced Friday in an...
Three months ago, Paige Howard ’17 committed to University of Pennsylvania for soccer, essentially finishing her college process months before juniors had even started to put together a preliminary list.
"It...
Fifty-seven seniors in the top 20 percent of the Class of 2016's Grade Point Average range will be inducted into the National Cum Laude society.
Cum Laude Society, Harvard-Westlake Chapter
List of Inductees,...
Students interested in traveling to Guatemala Aug. 1 - 19 as part of HW Go!'s Guatemala: A Digital Story Adventure program can attend an information session with their parents Wednesday in the Ahmanson...
Lexi Block ’17, Matt Thomas ’17 and Cate Wolfen '17 advance to the Head Prefect Final Election next week, and the second male candidate is yet to be announced as juniors must vote in a runoff Wednesday...
Student-run radio station KHWS has gone on a hiatus for an undetermined amount of time as student leaders seek an alternate radio streaming service after the station’s broadcast program went off the...
Attorney and public education advocate Nick Melvoin '04 has declared his candidacy for a seat in the 2017 Los Angeles Unified School Board to "ensure that every student in Los Angeles has the opportunity...
Faculty members will have the opportunity June 13-27 to travel to Israel in the face of political conflict in the Middle East as part of an Immersion Faculty Fellowship.
The program is sponsored by the...
Family psychologist Richard Weissbourd, a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the lead author of a new report calling for less competition and pressure surrounding college admissions,...
DES MOINES, Iowa — As former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin waited in the airport here Tuesday to catch her pre-blizzard delayed flight, she continuously turned away interviews from reporters eager to...
Six high school students from Shanghai will visit the school and stay with Harvard-Westlake students Feb. 7 -19, marking the first time the school will participate in a World Leading Schools exchange program.
WLSA...
In the competitive nature of the school, we make decisions every day about how much we want our peers to know about our academic records, but that gets taken away from us once we graduate.
In each of...
Alex Copeland ’15, a freshman at Yale College, said his immediate instinct is to say that he has not experienced racism at the campus in New Haven, Conneticut.
But then he thought for a moment.
"I really...
The students studying at School Year Abroad in Rennes, France are safe following the attacks on Paris Nov. 13.
Katie Schlesinger '17, Sophia Dienstag '17 and Danielle Kaye '17 confirmed that they were...
Mental health advocate Jordan Burnham urged students to feel comfortable seeking treatment for mental health issues and to talk about them to get help. He shared his story of attempted suicide Wednesday...
Due to the smoke from the barbecue at Homecoming on Saturday, neighbors called the fire department, causing trucks to arrive on campus at 6:20 p.m., but left almost immediately, security guard Jim Wirth...
When Haden Modisett ’16 leaves school for the day, he has a choice between driving for an hour and 15 minutes to his family’s house in Manhattan Beach or walking 10 minutes to his apartment on Coldwater...
Save Coldwater Canyon! members and local residents have replaced signs protesting the school’s proposed parking garage after they were reportedly stolen in June, the latest incident in a string of alleged...
Students signed up for various clubs during the Activities Fair on the quad Monday. There were a total of 88 clubs, eight student organizations and two festivals represented at the fair, which was hosted...
Security guards revoked parking passes from about 20 students Thursday who were driving in the center left turn lane on Coldwater Canyon for more than 200 feet.
Drivers can legally drive in center lanes...
Parents, alumni, faculty and staff donated a record of $7.7 million to Annual Giving last year, the most for an independent day school in the country, according to Head of External Relations Ed Hu.
Faculty...
Two trailers outside Rugby Hall were removed during the summer because of "a desire to return green space to the general community," Vice President John Amato said.
Teachers and students used the trailers...
Time and time again failure is seen as an essential stepping-stone for success.
So I find it strange that we have such a high expectation for success and scarcely any room for failure. Providing a more...
Forty-six students from international schools applied this year, an increase over last year when 36 students applied. Five students from foreign countries enrolled.
There are four students from the United...
Students from the Actor and the Stage classes will perform “The Glass Menagerie” in the Drama Lab Monday at 7:30 p.m.
Admission is free, and the performance will be about two hours and 15 minutes....
Celso Cárdenas will replace Dean Tamar Adegbile next year, Head of Upper School Audrius Barzdukas said in an email to parents today.
Cárdenas was previously the Associate Director of College Counseling...
Concerns that some students were using illegal substances marred the March 14-16 geology trip to Death Valley, geology teacher and trip chaperone Wendy Van Norden said.
Van Norden noticed that "some students...
Stacy Marble has been named the director of community and public affairs, a new position created to "make sure that Harvard-Westlake is engaged with the social fabric of Studio City," she said.
Marble...
Students will stay up all night to read "Moby Dick" aloud in its entirety April 24 – 25 at the Mudd Library for the Harvard-Westlake Moby Dick Big Read, organizers announced at assembly today.
Two of...
HW! Go’s Digital Storytelling Adventure trip to Cambodia has not been officially approved by the school, but registration is open on the Friendship Tours World Travel website.
Ninth to 12th grade students...
Seventh and ninth grade physical education classes are now separated by gender in order "to enhance the experience of girls at Harvard-Westlake," Kimberley Hieatt, head of the middle school physical education...
A Digital Storytelling Adventure to Cambodia, a Beat the Bot Challenge and the Advanced Dance II teaser for their upcoming show highlighted Wednesday’s assembly.
Sarah McAllister ’15 announced that...
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti ’88 will be featured as this year’s Brown Family Speaker during assembly March 23.
Garcetti graduated from Columbia University as a John Jay Scholar in 1992. He studied...
Daniel Singer’s ’17 first time running a business was neither when he helped launch the website Youtell, nor when he created the apps Backchat and Bond. It was when he set up a car wash in third grade.
"I’d...
The BLACC will screen the satirical film “Dear White People,” which focuses on a group of four black students attending a primarily white college, from 2 – 5 p.m. Feb. 21 at the Ahmanson Lecture...
Eight films made by students who went on the Rwanda trip last year premiered at the Pan African Film Festival Los Angeles Feb. 8 at Rave Cinemas 15 Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza.
The festivalset aside...
Ben Sprung-Keyser ’11 has been named one of 32 Rhodes Scholars for 2015 and plans to spend two years studying economics at Oxford beginning next fall.
Currently, he is studying economics at Harvard...
A play written by bookstore associate Allie Costa, “Femme Noir,” was performed at the Miles Memorial Playhouse in Santa Monica Nov. 6 – 8 and all four performances were sold-out.
Costa’s play,...
Two poets will keynote Harvard-Westlake's first-ever poetry festival, "Wider than the Sky: A Celebration of Poetry in Word, Image and Performance," Saturday with readings, performances and workshops.
The...
Kathryn Tian ’17 won a gold medal as the U.S. representative at the World Association of Kickboxing Organizations Juniors and Cadets World Championships in Italy in September. She was also named the...
During the second ever all-school opening convocation Tuesday, President Rick Commons announced the new mission statement, focusing on community and a joyful pursuit of excellence.
Commons first cited...
