Classes & Credits
The number of credits you earn when you pass one semester-long class
What is .5 credits?
The minimum grade you need to earn to pass a class at West and earn credit for it.
What is a "D" or 60%?
This is a program that you can go to after school in the LMC to work on homework and get help from teachers and tutors.
What is Homework Club?
A school dance that usually happens in October at West.
What is Homecoming?
This is our school mascot!
What is a Regent?
The number of years of math you must complete to graduate.
What are 3 years?
Students get final grades twice a year, at the end of each __________.
What is a "semester"?
This is the person at West who can help you with academic concerns, personal concerns, planning for after high school, and picking classes.
What is a Counselor?
This is a program where you can retake classes that you failed during the school year and make them up before classes start again in the fall.
What is summer school?
The maximum number of tardies that you can get in a week BEFORE you have to serve a lunch detention.
What are 3 tardies?
The number of credits you need to earn to graduate from West.
What is 22?
The highest GPA (Grade Point Average) that you can earn at West, which you get by earning straight As.
What is a 4.0?
An exam you must take in high school, usually in a history class, to graduate from West.
This is the room you go to if you want to sign up for a peer or adult tutor at West.
What is Resource Hall (or 2026)?
This is a grocery store on Regent Street where you can walk to buy snacks and drinks durng lunch.
What is the Regent Street Co-op?
What are English 1 and U. S. History?
This is a document that lists the classes you've taken in high school, the grades you've earned, and your grade point average.
What is a transcript?
This is the name of the program where you can work with an Algebra or Geometry tutor in Resource Hall.
What is Achievement Connections?
These are classes that offer an extra level of challenge to students.
What are Honors classes?
These are on the roof of West High School, thanks to the West High Green Club.
What are solar panels?
1.5
This is a club you can join at the end of junior year if you have a 3.5 GPA and have volunteered at least 60 hours in the community.
What is National Honors Society?
This is who you can talk to in the Student Services Office (2 possible answers).
Who is a psychologist or social worker?
What can you earn if you decide to be a Teacher's Assistant in a classroom? (2 possible answers)
This is a week at West where art, music, and theater students have performances and shows running all week for classes to attend.
What is Fine Arts Week?