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Westside High School
Main Campus • 8701 Pacific Street
Omaha, Nebraska • 68114-5200
(402) 343-2600 • (402) 343-2608 FAX
Attendance Office: (402) 343-2626
Normal School Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 3:10 p.m.
Maryanne Ricketts - Principal
(Recognized as an Apple® Distinguished School)
Career Center • 3534 South 108th Street
Omaha, Nebraska • 68144
(402) 390-8214 • (402) 390-8212 FAX
Normal School Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Maria Neesman - Assistant Principal
Westside is a comprehensive high school of over 2,000 students located in the heart of Omaha, Nebraska. We hope you enjoy your visit to our homepage and find it helpful. If you would like more information about our school, please call us at (402) 343-2600.
Westside High School Commencement
Commencement will be held this year at 7:00 pm on Monday, May 21, at the CenturyLink Center. This is a sophisticated event that has prestige and dignity. All students, parents, relatives, and friends of graduates are invited and encouraged to attend. Students are not limited on the number of guests invited to attend graduation. You are also encouraged to support your graduate with applause as he or she crosses the stage. Please help provide a quality Commencement by limiting movement in the seating area once the ceremony has begun. Please refrain from throwing anything from the seating area or using noisemakers of any kind. CenturyLink staff will be checking all bags, any noise makers will be confiscated. Thank you in advance for your consideration of these requests.
Omaha Westside High School Commencement Photography
The Picture Man will be taking a picture of each graduate as they receive their diploma.
ORDER WEBSITE: Proofs of the individual photographs may be viewed and prints ordered online at: www.bobthepictureman.photoreflect.com DEADLINE: Please place your order by June 22, 2012.
MINIMUMS: After the deadline the postage and handling charge will be increased to $20.00 to cover lab minimum order fees due to decreased order volume. (The photo lab charges us minimums per size)
Questions? Call The Picture Man 402-467-2577
Summer School Booklet
The 2012 Summer School Booklet is now available online. Click here to view a copy.
2012 Lundquist Award
Nomination forms for the Lundquist Award are available here. Completed forms are due byFriday May 18.
Earl Siegel Female High School Athlete of the Year
Lauren Meyers is the 2012 recipient of the prestigious Earl Siegel female high school athlete of the year award. Lauren will receive this award on May 9 at the 58th annual Sports Banquet presented by B'nai B'rith. The Banquet will be held at the Century Link Center.
Top Female Scholar Athlete for Girls Basketball
Lauren Meyers was selected by the Greater Omaha Sports Committee as the top FEMALE Scholar Athlete for Girls basketball this season. Lauren was recognized during a luncheon at the Omaha Marriot Hotel on April 10.
U.S. Presidential Scholars
Congratulations to these Westside seniors who were selected as candidates for the United States Presidential Scholars Program: Ben Fenwick, Lilly Phillips, Jacob Poots, Jake Quinn, and Aisha Wang. These scholars are chosen for demonstrating academic and artistic success, leadership, and involvement in school and community. These students are invited to Washington, DC in June to participate in National Recognition Weekend.
Lilly Phillips was selected as a semifinalist in the Presidential Scholars Program. Only 550 students nationwide are selected for this honor.
Lilly Phillips was selected as a semifinalist in the Presidential Scholars Program. Only 550 students nationwide are selected for this honor.
The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards of 2012
We are pleased to announce that the following students have received national recognition in The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards of 2012, presented by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. Jenny Solheim in Drawing and Casey Callahan in Drawing. These students have been identified by panels of professional artists as the most talented young artists in the nation. This year, 200,000 works of art and writing were submitted. Only the top 1,500 were recognized at the national level. These students have been invited to attend a ceremony at the world-famous Carnegie Hall on June 1 and to participate in a number of showcase events at Parsons The New School of Design in New York City. We're proud to have these students represent our school in this year's National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.
NBCA Names Bob Greco a Finalist
Each year at the beginning of the new season, the members of the Nebraska Baseball Coaches Association select certain members of their profession to be recognized for their achievements on the field and for demonstrating exemplary character, sportsmanship and professionalism during the previous year and also select one non-coach who has made extraordinary contributions to the sport of baseball in Nebraska. In recent statewide voting eight active coaches, two recently retired longtime coaches and one non-coach were selected to be so honored. Bob Greco was named as a finalist.
Westside Girls Swimming are State Champs!
The girls swimming and diving team demonstrated that positive thinking, maintaining correct focus during training and simply believing that they had the ability to win the state title. This year's seniors started working on this goal as freshman. Every year they stepped up a little more and all of the hard work during the last 4 years made the difference. It would have been easy to think they couldn't do it since Millard West won so handily at the Metro Championships. But that result just served as the final motivation for winning the state title. It all starts with a dream and ends the right way when a group of dedicated, positively directed and hard working group of athletes come together all at the same time. It was a total team win. The best part, as coaches, they allowed us to come along for the ride. And what a great cruise it was! The girls are coached by Doug Krecklow.
Westside VEX Robotics Team
Congratulations for winning the Benson High School/Hale Middle School VEX Robotics Invitational Saturday January 28th. By winning this event students Jordan Estee, Cory Jansen, Victoria Johnson, and Alex Zimmerman are now qualified to compete in the World VEX Robotics Championship in Anaheim, CA in April. Jordan, Cory, Tori, and Alex have competed against more than a hundred other robots in five competitions so far this season and have taken home an award at all but one tournament. They have qualified for the State and National tournaments three times. Gregg Ratliff is their sponsor.
Course Handbook 2012-2013
The Course Handbook for the 2012-2013 school year is now available to download.
2012-2013 Course Handbook
2012-2013 Course Handbook
College Board Honors Westside with a Place on AP Achievement List
The College Board recently honored Westside Community Schools with a place on its AP Achievement List. The District is one of just 388 school districts nationwide selected for this honor. Westside received the recognition for opening advanced placement (AP) classes to a significantly broader pool of students, while maintaining or improving the percentage of students earning scores of 3 or higher. From 2008-2010, Westside High School increased the number of students participating in AP classes from 222 to 288, while improving the percentage of students earning AP Exam scores of 3 or higher, the score typically needed to earn college credit. That percentage of students earning college credit rose to 63 percent in 2010, up from 56 percent in 2008. The College Board's Advanced Placement Program enables students to pursue college-level studies while still in high school.
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