Westmount Secondary School
secondary school in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Westmount Secondary School is a secondary school in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It is a member of the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board. The school opened in 1961, and has a 2017-2018 enrolment of 1520 students.
Programs
The school is a member of the Canadian Coalition of Self-Directed Learning. Westmount also offers gifted classes, special education classes, as well as an ESL program.
Westmount is a multicultural school. The student population consists of a variety of religions and ethnicities. The school is also home to Christian, Muslim and Hindu prayer societies, each meeting occasionally to carry out religious tasks.
It was previously the only secondary school in Hamilton to make it into the Fraser Institute's top 100 High Schools in Ontario, ranked at #84 out of 718.
In 2019, its Reach for the Top team – coached by Jay Misuk – became the first team from Hamilton to qualify for the national championship after finishing second at provincials.
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