Type Public Secondary Grades 9-12 Phone +1 504-368-6055 Number of students 1,300 | Principal Vanessa Brown-Lewis Gender Boys and Girls Mascot Buccaneer | |
School district Jefferson Parish School District Dean Lamica Esteen, Willet Menard Address 2200 8th St, Harvey, LA 70058, USA District Jefferson Parish Public Schools Similar John Ehret High School, Helen Cox High School, LW Higgins High Sch, Jeff West Fitness Center, LB Landry‑O Walker C | ||
West Jefferson High School, also known as WJHS, and West Jeff is a public high school located in Harvey in unincorporated Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States, just outside New Orleans. It was founded in 1955. This is one of the schools in Jefferson Parish that offered the Laptop one to one initiative program. West Jefferson also offers transportation for students to and from school for free. This is a Title I school The school was damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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It serves portions of several communities, including Harvey, Gretna, and Timberlane. All of Terrytown is in the West Jefferson attendance zone.
Enrollment
Students who live outside West Jefferson's specific school district may not be allowed to enroll in this school. West Jefferson has 1,398 students during this school year (2009–2010). Demographics show that the student body consists of 812 African American, 251 Hispanic, 240 Caucasian (non-Hispanic), 87 Asian/Pacific Islander, and 8 American Indian/Alaskan Native students. There are 442 Freshmen (Ninth Graders), 380 Sophomores (Tenth Graders), 290 Juniors (Eleventh Graders), and 286 Seniors (Twelfth Graders). The ratio of gender is approximately 1:1.