Academic Program/Curriculum

View Westover's Summer Reading list. Students read over the summer three books from the list and in the fall meet in small groups with a faculty/staff member to discuss the books. 

Westover is a school that does not put students in boxes. We are a school that encourages trying new things, a school that celebrates excellence. Achievement is cool here. Our students are serious scholars, gifted musicians and artists, talented athletes. Some of our students' achievements:

* 42% of our students are taking 149 Advanced Placement exams for college credit in 19 subjects. Last year 96% of those tests qualified our girls for college credit, with 50-60% scoring honors grades of 4 or 5.

* 1/6 of our students participate in a pre-professional co-curricular programs with the Manhattan School of Music in NYC, with Brass City Ballet, or with the WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) Program.

* The work of 2 of our photographers has been named best in the country in the last four years in the National Scholastic Art Awards.

* Westover recently received an unheard of 22 nominations for Halo Awards, the local high school Tony awards, sponsored by Seven Angels Theatre.

* Westover students competed in the 15th annual General Electric High School Computer Science contest, and one of the top 10 students and the only girl in the top 10 was a Westover junior.

* One of our seniors has been honored with a National Merit Scholarship, a distinction that puts her among less than 1/5 of 1% of all students in the country who took the qualifying 2007 Preliminary SAT.