Hazelwood West High School

Hazelwood West High School
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Address
1 Wildcat Lane Hazelwood, Missouri, St. Louis County 63042-1180 United States
Coordinates
Information
School type	Property Tax funded, Public School
Established	1969 (Howdershell Jr. High) 1975 (Hazelwood West Jr./Sr. High) 2002 (Hazelwood West Middle/High School) 2007 (Hazelwood West High)
Status	Open
School district	Hazelwood School District
Superintendent	Dr. Grayling Tobias
Session	Semester
Principal	Dennis Newell
Staff	176
Faculty	130
Grades	9th-12th (2007-) 7th-12th (1975-2007) 7th-9th (1969-1975)
Enrollment	2,466 (2009) 2,508 (2008) 2,013 (2007) 1,924 (2006) 1,749 (2005) 2,754 (2004) 2,649 (2003)
Student to teacher ratio	1:19 (2009) 1:22 (2008) 1:22 (2007) 1:22 (2006) 1:19 (2005) 1:20 (2004) 1:18 (2003)
Language	English
Hours in school day	8 hours
Campus type	Closed
School colour(s)	Red and Black
Fight song	On Wisconsin
Athletics conference	Suburban North
Mascot	Willie/ Wanda the Wildcat
Nickname	Wildcats
Accreditation	MSIP Accreditation current as of July 2007
Average ACT scores	20.4 (2009) 20.4 (2008) 21.2 (2007) 21.0 (2006) 21.7 (2005) 21.0 (2004) 20.6 (2003)
Newspaper	West Gazette
Yearbook	Focus
Graduates	571 (2009) 440 (2008) 372 (2007) 323 (2006) 308 (2005) 369 (2004) 359 (2003)
Website	Hazelwood West's Home Page

Hazelwood West High School is a public high school in the Hazelwood School District located in North St. Louis County, Missouri.

History

Hazelwood West High School began in 1974, with the first graduating class in 1975. Due to overcrowding of Hazelwood Senior High School (now known as Hazelwood Central), students attended classes on split shift in afternoons. The building that would partially become Hazelwood West opened in 1969 as a junior high school, Howdershell Jr. High. A greatly expanded building opened as a six-year facility in the fall of 1976, the present Hazelwood West High School, housing students from grades nine through twelve. In 2002, all district junior high schools were renamed middle schools. In 2005, two new building additions were added, a band room near the main entrance and a three-story classroom wing in the rear of the former middle school section. With the completion of six new middle schools in 2007: Hazelwood Central Middle School, Hazelwood North Middle School, Hazelwood Northwest Middle School, Hazelwood East Middle School, Hazelwood Southeast Middle School, and Hazelwood West Middle School, Hazelwood West was designated solely as a high school.

Notable alumni

• Trevor Gaylor '96, WR Miami University 96-00, drafted by the San Diego Chargers in 2000
• Lamark Brown '07, football player for the Minnesota Vikings
• Morgan Burkhart '90, Major League Baseball player
• Kyle McClellan '02, Major League Baseball player
• Al Nipper '77, Major League Baseball player
• Pat O'Connor '78, member, Missouri House of Representatives
• David Phelps '05, Notre Dame pitcher 06-08, drafted by the New York Yankees in 2008, Major League Baseball player
• Rob Riti '95, All-American football player
• Eric Sansouci ’01, collegiate baseball player for Northern Illinois University ‘04-’05. Played professionally for the Gateway Grizzlies ’05 of the Frontier League
• Matt Winer '87, journalist for ESPN
• Jeffrey Wittmer '03, US weightlifter
• Clint Zweifel '91, State Treasurer of Missouri

External links

• Hazelwood West High School Webpage
• Statistical data about Hazelwood West from the Missouri Dept. of Elementary and Secondary Education
• Hazelwood School District homepage