Westside Christian High School


Westside Christian High School is a private, Christian high school located in Tigard, Oregon, United States.
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History

In 1981, with 10 students and 6 teachers, Westside Christian High School opened its doors in the Collins View School building to serve families on the west side of town. In 1992, after a collaborative effort with Lake Bible Church, a new combined church and high school structure was built on the corner of Kruse Way and Carman Drive in Lake Oswego, Oregon.
In 2011, the school announced plans to move to Tigard and a new, larger campus where they planned to eventually grow their enrollment to 450 students. The school received a $1 million grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, to help pay for the new location.
In April 2013, Westside purchased the property at the intersection of Highway 99W and Highway 217, 20 minutes south of downtown Portland. They moved into this new campus in January 2014.

Mission

Westside is a non-denominational Christian school whose mission is to inspire Godly transformation and Christ-like character through exceptional education and intentional discipleship to impact the world for Christ.

Faculty and staff

The current head of Westside Christian High School is Stephen Torode.
Dave Gasser has been the athletic director since 2011.

Academics

Westside offers 10 AP classes: AP Language and Composition, AP Literature and Composition, AP Calculus AB, AP Biology, AP Physics, AP European History, AP US History, AP World History, AP Human Geography, and AP Studio Art.
Westside offers 13 concurrent credit classes. WCHS has partnerships with both George Fox University and Northwest Nazarene University to offer concurrent high school and college credit through a selected group of classes, allowing students to obtain up to a total of 43 semester units. 11 classes are eligible for concurrent credit.
2017-18 Courses through George Fox University
  1. AP Literature & Composition will generate credit in En 120: Intro to Literature
  2. AP Language & Composition will generate credit in En 101: College Composition
  3. Pre-Calculus will generate credit in MA 115: Precalculus
  4. AP Calculus AB will generate credit in MA 251: Calculus 1
  5. AP US History will generate credit in HIS 201: US History
  6. AP World History will generate credit in HIS 211: Survey of World History I
  7. AP European History will generate credit in HIS 212: Survey of World History II
  8. Anatomy & Physiology will generate credit in BIO 121: Intro to Anatomy & Physiology
  9. AP Biology will generate credit in BIO 102: General Biology II
  10. AP Physics will generate credit in PHS 121 Intro to Physics
  11. AP Chemistry
  12. Government/Economics
2017-18 Courses through Northwest Nazarene University
  1. Spanish 4 will generate credit in SPAN 2010 & 2020 Intermediate Spanish
Historically, 90–95% of Westside students attend 4-year colleges after graduating. 95% of all WCHS teachers have a master's degree and/or their teaching credential.

Accreditation and memberships

Athletics

Westside competes in Oregon's 3A Lewis & Clark League and currently offers 8 unique sports across 3 seasons. Spring sports include track and field, boys' golf, girls' tennis, baseball, and softball; in Fall, cross country, soccer, and girls' volleyball are available; and the winter sports are basketball and girls' cheerleading.

Performing arts

Westside's choir program has won the OSAA 3A State Championship for 15 consecutive years, from 2007 to 2023. Westside students also perform two full-length drama productions at Westside each year. Westside has a very small band that plays scores sometimes for a band for 40–60 people. Westside's band has won four consecutive years out of the five years the band has existed.