Westwood High School is a 4-year public high school in the western part of Mesa, Arizona, United States under the jurisdiction of

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. It was opened in 1962 with Elias Brimhall as the founding principal. In the 1983–84 school year, it was honored as a Blue Ribbon school. In 2018 it was reclassified as a "A" school through the Arizona Department of Education school accountability system. It is the zoned public high school of the

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Demographics

During the 2020–2021 school year, the demographic break of the 3,355 students enrolled was: * Male – 50.8% * Female – 49.2% * Native American/Alaskan – 11.9% * Asian/Pacific Islander – 2.3% * Black – 6.2% * Hispanic – 56.4% * White – 21.3% * Multiracial – 1.9%

Athletics

Offered Athletics: *

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* Cross Country * Football * Pom &

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Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping ...

* Swim & Dive * B/G

Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Sum ...

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Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

* B/G Soccer *

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Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding t ...

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Feeder schools

Junior High Schools that feed into Westwood High School (and the Elementary Schools that feed into the junior high schools): Carson Junior High: * Adams Elementary School * Eisenhower Center for Innovation * Ralph Waldo Emerson Elementary School * Lehi Elementary School * Roosevelt Elementary School * Webster Elementary School * Whitman Elementary School * Whittier Elementary School Kino Junior High: * Eisenhower Center for Innovation * Lehi Elementary School * Edison Elementary School * Holmes Elementary School * Kerr Elementary School * Lincoln Elementary School * Lowell Elementary School Rhodes Junior High: * Crismon Elementary School * Pedro Guerrero Elementary School * Lincoln Elementary School * Redbird Elementary School * Roosevelt Elementary School * Summit Academy ( IB) Stapley Junior High * Barbara Bush Elementary School * Marjorie Entz Elementary School * Nathan Hale Elementary School * Hermosa Vista Elementary School * Zedo Ishikawa Elementary School * Lehi Elementary School * Douglas MacArthur Elementary School

Notable alumni

;Individuals *

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, basketball head coach at St. Mary's College * Rick Burch, bassist of Jimmy Eat World *

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* Troy Kotsur, actor * Tom Linton, guitarist of Jimmy Eat World *

Albie Lopez Albert Anthony "Albie" Lopez (born August 18, 1971) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He graduated from Mesa Community College. He was drafted by the Cleveland Indians in the 20th round of the 1991 Major League Baseball draft. Lopez spent ...

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player ( Milwaukee Brewers, Philadelphia Phillies) * Ritchie McKay, basketball head coach at

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* Larry Owens, NBA basketball player with

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* Scott Smith, mayor of Mesa *

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;Groups * Founding members of

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References

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