The Harvard-Westlake School strives to provide an education that enables and empowers its diverse students to develop their intellectual, spiritual, emotional, and physical gifts.

Harvard School for Boys, a military school with 42 students, was established in 1900 by Grenville C. Emery in a barley field at what is now the corner of Western Avenue and Venice Boulevard in Los Angeles. Four years later, Jessica Smith Vance and Frederica de Laguna opened the doors of Westlake School for girls on Sixth and Alvarado across from what is now MacArthur Park. Harvard-Westlake ranks among the top high schools in the country in number of National Merit Semifinalists. 118 students received National Merit Recognition, with 47 students as National Merit Semifinalists.

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