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, United States under the jurisdiction of Mesa Public Schools. 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

2020–2021 school year demographics for the 3,355 enrolled students: * 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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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

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* Larry Owens, NBA basketball player with

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;Groups * Founding members of Authority Zero, a punk rock band

References

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