The event started off as seniors slowly made their way to the courtyard, grabbing their stencils and choosing their chalk. Marcie Robinson, college counselor...
This year, Spyglass is sad to see many of our Westridge faculty and staff members leave our community. While some are retiring and others are pursuing other opportunities, we wish all of them the best...
Combine a need to pass time during quarantine with an affinity for satirical news. What do you get? A new Westridge favorite: the online spoof newspaper known as Thursday Detention.
The current writers,...
Westridge Upper School held its first in-person Tiger Week from March 21 to 24. Tiger Week is a week of experiential, workshop-based learning opportunities created last year as an alternative for Interim...
“What does it mean to be a girls’ school when we’re no longer living in a binary world?”
Ms. Sarah Jallo, Senior Director for Enrollment Management and Student Outcomes, explained that this...
Post-pandemic and remote learning, educational institutions have been taking the time to reflect on how they can best teach, reach, and support their students. And Westridge is no exception. Westridge’s...
In 2014, Westridge started a bus route to and from the San Fernando Valley. Now, eight years later, that route is being discontinued due to the lack of financial sustainability.
Originally, Westridge’s...
There’s something very charming about small coffee shops that I can’t put into words and that chains can’t replicate. I totally understand the appeal of chain coffee shops—first of all, they’re...
With the school year coming to an end, here are some things students have planned for summer!
Eliza L. ’25
“I’m not doing too much this summer, but I am volunteering at the South Pasadena...
“I get stared at a lot in public. I get pointed at. I’ve gotten really weird comments. I’ve gotten ganged up on by kids,” explained Abby P. ’25. As a freshman at Westridge, her experiences as...
