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Harvard-Westlake School

Location
Los Angeles, California, United States
Mascot
Wolverine
Established
1991
Harvard-Westlake School

Harvard-Westlake School is an independent, co-educational university preparatory day school consisting of two campuses located in Los Angeles, California, with approximately 1,600 students enrolled in grades seven through twelve. Its two predecessor organizations began as for-profit schools before turning non-profit, and eventually merging. It is not affiliated with Harvard University despite being named after it. The school has two campuses, the middle school campus in Holmby Hills and the high school, or what Harvard-Westlake refers to as their Upper School, in Studio City. It is a member of the G30 Schools group.

Type Independent college-preparatory high school
Established Harvard School for Boys: 1900, Westlake School for Girls: 1904, Fully Merged as Harvard-Westlake: 1991
President Richard B. Commons
Associate Head of School Laura Ross
Teaching staff 212.0 (FTE) (2015–16)
Grades 7–12
Gender coeducational
Enrollment 1,598 (2015–16)
Color(s) Red, Black, White
Athletics California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section
Mascot Wolverine
Accreditation WASC, NAIS, CAIS
2013 SAT average 688 verbal/critical reading, 703 math, 707 writing
Newspaper The Chronicle
Yearbook Vox Populi

About Harvard-Westlake School

Independent, co-educational university preparatory day school which fully merged in 1991 after initially being split into the Harvard School for Boys and the Westlake School for Girls. The boy's school was established in 1900 and the girl's school in 1904.

Achievement of Harvard-Westlake School

In 2010, Forbes magazine ranked the school 12th among the country's top prep schools. In 2017, Niche ranked it 4th nationally among private schools.

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Latest information about Harvard-Westlake School updated on July 28 2021.