West Lafayette Junior-Senior High School (also informally known as West Side High School or simply West Side) is the only high school within the

West Lafayette West Lafayette () is a city in Wabash Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, United States, about northwest of the state capital of Indianapolis and southeast of Chicago. West Lafayette is directly across the Wabash River from its sister c ...

city limits, and is administered by the West Lafayette Community School Corporation. West Lafayette Junior-Senior High School was constructed in 1939 of cream brick and glass at a cost of $225,000, and was remodeled in the late 1990s. The school is located near Purdue University, and the children of many Purdue faculty and staff attend West Side. In 2012, the school was ranked as the 2nd and 4th best public high school in Indiana by '' U.S. News & World Report'' and '' Newsweek'', respectively. As of 2021, the high school was ranked in U.S. News & World Report as 2nd in Indiana and 239th nationwide.

Athletics

The school offers athletic programs including football, baseball, basketball, cheerleading, cross country, soccer, wrestling, golf, track and field, swimming, tennis and volleyball. The teams play under the nickname of the Red Devils and belong to the Hoosier Athletic Conference. The West Lafayette football team won Indiana high school state football championships in Class 2A in 1993, and in Class 3A in 2009 and 2018. Other state championships include the 1964 and 2014 boys cross country, 1998 girls Class 3A basketball, and 2013 girls soccer titles.

Notable alumni

* Sonia Y. Angell (Class of 1983), public health leader *

Katie Bouman Katherine Louise Bouman (; born 1989) is an American engineer and computer scientist working in the field of Computer-generated imagery, computer imagery. She led the development of an algorithm for imaging black holes, known as CHIRP (algorith ...

(Class of 2007), imaging scientist *

Greg Christopher Greg Christopher is the current athletic director for Xavier University. He was previously the athletic director at Bowling Green State University from 2006 to 2013. Christopher was an associate athletic director at Purdue University, joining the de ...

(Class of 1984), athletic director *

Neil Eggleston Warren Neil Eggleston (born July 5, 1953) is an American lawyer who served as the White House Counsel under President Barack Obama. Eggleston was the fourth person to hold this post during the Obama administration. Early life and education A n ...

(Class of 1971), White House Counsel *

Paul Eremenko Paul Eremenko ( uk, Єременко Павло Олександрович; born 1979 in Lviv, Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian American innovator and technology executive. He was formerly the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of U ...

(Class of 1997), innovator and technology executive *

Bob Friend Robert Bartmess Friend (November 24, 1930 – February 3, 2019) was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher between and , most notably as a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates. A fou ...

(Class of 1949), pitcher for the

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* Gen Fukunaga (Class of 1979), founder of Funimation Entertainment * George Karlaftis (Class of 2019), NFL football player * Tom Kelly (Class of 1967), songwriter * Jay McDowell (Class of 1987), bassist for country music band BR549 * Gavin Mikhail (Class of 1991), singer-songwriter * Sameer Mishra (Class of 2012), won the 81st Scripps National Spelling Bee * Tom Moore (Class of 1961), director *

Toby Moskowitz Tobias Jacob "Toby" Moskowitz (born February 3, 1971) is an American financial economist and a professor at the Yale School of Management. He was the winner of the 2007 American Finance Association (AFA) Fischer Black Prize, awarded to a leadi ...

(Class of 1989), financial economist * Chike Okeafor (Class of 1994),

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football player * Eric Rodwell (Class of 1974), professional bridge player *

Carolyn Wood Sherif Carolyn Wood Sherif (1922–1982) was an American social psychologist who helped to develop social judgment theory and contributed pioneering research in the areas of the self-system, group conflict, cooperation, and gender identity. She also ...

(Class of 1940), social psychologist *

Janet Tobias Janet Tobias is a media executive specializing in healthcare as well as an Emmy Award-winning director, producer, and writer. She directed '' Fauci'', and also '' No Place On Earth'' in 2012, a docudrama about two caves in the Ukraine in which th ...

(Class of 1976), television producer *

Randy Truitt Randy Truitt is a former member of the Indiana House of Representatives representing District 26 which includes portions of Tippecanoe and Warren County. He was first elected to the Indiana House of Representatives in 2008. Prior to 2008, he was ...

(Class of 1986), member of the

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References

External links

School website

West Lafayette Community School Corporation

Indiana Department of Education: School Snapshot
Public high schools in Indiana West Lafayette, Indiana Educational institutions established in 1939 Schools in Tippecanoe County, Indiana Public middle schools in Indiana 1939 establishments in Indiana {{Indiana-school-stub

Athletics

Notable alumni

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