Hazelwood West High School is a public high school located in Hazelwood, Missouri. It is one of three high schools in Hazelwood School District in St. Louis County, Missouri, alongside Hazelwood Central and Hazelwood East.
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History
Hazelwood West High School began in 1974, with the first graduating class in 1975. Due to overcrowding of Hazelwood Senior High School (now known as Hazelwood Central), students attended classes on split shift in afternoons. The building that would partially become Hazelwood West opened in 1969 as a junior high school, Howdershell Jr. High. A greatly expanded building opened as a six-year facility in the fall of 1975, housing students in grades seven through twelve. In 2002, all district junior high schools were renamed middle schools. In 2005, two new building additions were added, a band room near the main entrance and a three-story classroom wing in the rear of the former middle school section. With the completion of six new middle schools in 2007; Central Middle, North Middle, Northwest Middle, East Middle, Southeast Middle, and West Middle; Hazelwood West was designated solely as a high school.
Notable alumni
LaMark Brown 2007, NFL player
Morgan Burkhart 1990, MLB player
Darius Cooper 2020, NFL player
Trevor Gaylor 1996, NFL player
LaVena Johnson 2004, soldier
Kyle McClellan 2002, MLB player
Al Nipper 1977, MLB player
Pat O'Connor 1978, Missouri House of Representatives
David Phelps 2005, MLB player
Rob Riti 1995, All-American football player
Justin Robinson 2020, track and field athlete
Tom Sandoval 2001, model, actor, television personality
Devin Williams 2013, MLB player
Matt Winer 1987, sports journalist and television personality
Jeffrey Wittmer 2003, Olympic weightlifter
Clint Zweifel 1992, treasurer of Missouri