“To Challenge Minds, Foster Compassion, and Pursue Excellence”
Waukesha West High School Welcoming Exemplary Safe Trustworthy
3301 Saylesville Road
Waukesha, WI 53189
(262) 970-3900
www.waukeshawest.org
Waukesha West is home to an average of 1,200 students a year and 75+ teachers and support staff. Opened at the beginning of the 1993-1994 school year, West houses more than 100 classrooms, labs, and an impressive co-curricular complex with more than 55 acres of space that today includes a stadium with artificial turf and an 8-lane track, two baseball fields, two softball fields, two soccer fields, eight tennis courts, a field house, a natatorium, 6,000 square foot fitness center, numerous practice fields, and many cocurricular offerings. Recently, our media center was renovated to incorporate flexible learning spaces and small group meeting rooms to allow for a more personalized learning environment.
West High School has compiled significant accolades during its 22 years of existence for both academic and co-curricular excellence and is an NCA accredited institution. We offer a consistent, rich, varied and rigorous curriculum that is aligned with 21st century standards with a graduation rate at 96%. The 2013 edition of Newsweek listed West as a top 500 high school in America. All students at West High School currently receive an iPad to use as a tool to enhance their opportunities to learn.
District Vision: 
 To educate and graduate students by providing equal access to quality education with high academic standards that develops socially responsible citizens with the skills, attitudes and behaviors necessary for lifelong learning, higher education and employment.
School Learning Outcome: Students will provide evidence of their thinking through Harvey Literacy Strategies and WICR in every instructional lesson. With 100% of teachers having a literacy-focused SLO (which support the ACT Reading Standards), West High School students will meet projected growth in MAP and show 2-3 points growth from EXPLORE composite to ACT composite. In addition, West students will take the new Aspire test.
Goal #1 - (Literacy):
Goal #2 - (WICR):
The number of ninth and tenth grade students scoring below college and career readiness will decrease by 20% in the area of Reading from spring 2014 to spring 2015 as measured by standardized testing (ACT).
All students will be engaged in classroom instruction that utilizes our building SIP high leverage strategies (annotation, thinking sheets, and going public) or the WICR framework 80% of the time.
2014-2015 State Report
Report Card Categories
State
West H.S.
Student Achievement
69.1
76.2
Closing Gaps
67.5
74.8
College/Career Ready
83.5
92.7
2013-2014 AP Test Percent of students participating in AP testing 19.0% Waukesha 13.4% Wisconsin
24.1%
West High School
Percent of students scoring a 3 or higher 67.7% Wisconsin
62.0% Waukesha
72.6%
West High School
2014-2015 WKCE Data Science 77.3 % 
 at or above proficient
State
88.2 % 
 at or above proficient
West
Social Studies 81% at or above proficient
State
90.2% at or above proficient
West
2013-2014 ACT Data Participation Rate 63.5% State
80.7% West
*Beginning in 14-15, 100% all juniors in the state will participate in the ACT
ACT Comparison Composite
State
Average Score % Career/College Ready
Waukesha
Average Score % Career/College Ready
West
Average Score % Career/College Ready
ELA
Reading
Math
Science
22.1
21.4
22.2
21.9
22.2
n/a
73.6%
50.2%
53.4%
48.4%
22.4
21.8
22.7
22.1
22.5
n/a
76.8%
52.8%
54.1%
49.4%
23.2
22.5
23.1
23.3
23.3
n/a
78.7%
56.9%
66.1%
58.4%
Waukesha West High School students meet or exceed state and district averages and levels of career and college readiness. With the increase of testing participation to 100% of all juniors, the average scores across the state will experience an adjustment.
 
 Comparison chart will be updated when state/district data is available
By The Numbers 10
81%
Scholastic gold and silver keys awarded to students in the Arts
13
Transcripted/Dual credit courses in Career and Technical Education
Of students plan to attend a two or four year college or university
2,000+ Hours of service complied by National Honor Society students
40+
State championships in athletics over the past 21 years
18 years
14
National Academic Decathlon recognitions
12
State Championships
Units
Of blood collected during Student Council’s blood drive
57
Students participate in a school to work program or internship
AP tests taken by 432 students, with 38 students taking 4 or more tests
28
Sport opportunities and
29
Club opportunities for students
Awarded in scholarships that assisted 60 students in one year
150
772
The Cadets Marching Band placed 1st or 2nd in WSMA state competition
$950,000+
8
Student-athletes signed with a Division I or Division II school in 2014-2015
4
Years in a row, the One Act plays placed 1st at State
7
Students will be serving in a branch of the military, including the Air Force Academy on scholarship