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Traverse City West Senior High School is a public high school in Traverse City, Michigan, located at 5376 N. Long Lake Road. The principal is Joseph Tibaldi, who has been the principal since the school's opening in 1997. The school was originally built as a solution to the overcrowding at Traverse City Senior High School, which was Michigan's largest high school prior to the split.^{[citation needed]} Traverse City Senior High School is now known as Traverse City Central High School, and the school district border now divided by Division St. Traverse City West is one of three high schools in Traverse City, with nearly 2,000 students each year. It is a very crowded school, and it has a rock which people paint on. It is a dumb rock. It is several times larger than most of the schools in its surrounding area and is the single largest high school outside of the Grand Rapids and Detroit areas in the entire state of Michigan, including the Upper Peninsula. West is located in the Traverse City Area Public Schools school district, which is part of the larger Traverse Bay Area intermediate school district. West offers classes for students in grades 10–12, although starting in the 2008/09 school year, it will consist of grades 9-12. Additionally, students are given the option to dual enroll and attend classes at Northwestern Michigan College. In addition to the dual enrollment program, a wide variety of honors and AP classes are offered.

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+'''Traverse City West Senior High School''' is a [[public education|public]] [[high school]] in [[Traverse City, Michigan]], located at 5376 N. Long Lake Road. The principal is Joseph Tibaldi, who has been the principal since the school's opening in 1997. The school was originally built as a solution to the overcrowding at Traverse City Senior High School, which was Michigan's largest high school prior to the split.{{Fact|date=September 2008}} Traverse City Senior High School is now known as Traverse City Central High School, and the school district border now divided by Division St. Traverse City West is one of three high schools in Traverse City, with nearly 2,000 students each year.  It is a very crowded school, and it has a rock which people paint on.  It is a dumb rock. It is several times larger than most of the schools in its surrounding area and is the single largest high school outside of the Grand Rapids and Detroit areas in the entire state of Michigan, including the [[Upper Peninsula]]. West is located in the Traverse City Area Public Schools school district, which is part of the larger Traverse Bay Area intermediate school district. West offers classes for students in grades 10&ndash;12, although starting in the 2008/09 school year, it will consist of grades 9-12. Additionally, students are given the option to [[dual enrollment|dual enroll]] and attend classes at [[Northwestern Michigan College]]. In addition to the dual enrollment program, a wide variety of honors and [[Advanced Placement Program|AP]] classes are offered.
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-! style="font-size: 111%; text-align: center; background: green; color: gold;" colspan="2" | West Senior High
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-! Logo
-| [[Image:TCW.PNG|120px]]
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-! Type
-| Public secondary
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-! Principal
-| Joseph Tibaldi
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-! Location
-| Traverse City, Michigan
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-! District
-| Traverse City Area Public&nbsp;Schools
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-! Enrollment
-| 1947 students ([[2006]])
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-! MHSAA&nbsp;Class
-| A, Division 1
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-! Conference
-| Big North
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-! Colors
-| Forest Green and Gold
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-! Nickname
-| Titans
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-! Homepage
-| [http://www2.tcaps.net/wsh/ TC West Senior High]
-|}
-'''Traverse City West Senior High School''' is a [[public education|public]] [[high school]] in [[Traverse City, Michigan]], located at 5376 N. Long Lake Road. The principal is Joseph Tibaldi, who has been the principal since the school's opening in 1997. The school was originally built as a solution to the overcrowding at Traverse City Senior High School, which was Michigan's largest high school prior to the split.{{Fact|date=September 2008}} Traverse City Senior High School is now known as Traverse City Central High School, and the school district border now divided by Division St. Traverse City West is one of three high schools in Traverse City, with nearly 2,000 students each year. It is several times larger than most of the schools in its surrounding area and is the single largest high school outside of the Grand Rapids and Detroit areas in the entire state of Michigan, including the [[Upper Peninsula]]. West is located in the Traverse City Area Public Schools school district, which is part of the larger Traverse Bay Area intermediate school district. West offers classes for students in grades 10&ndash;12, although starting in the 2008/09 school year, it will consist of grades 9-12. Additionally, students are given the option to [[dual enrollment|dual enroll]] and attend classes at [[Northwestern Michigan College]]. In addition to the dual enrollment program, a wide variety of honors and [[Advanced Placement Program|AP]] classes are offered.
-The school puts on an annual [[musical theater|musical]] which involves students from all fields. Musicals performed at West since it opened include such classics as Patience, "[[Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat]]", "[[Pirates of Penzance]]", "[[The Music Man]]", "[[Ruddigore]]", "[[Les Miserables]]" (1st time), "[[West Side Story]]", "[[Aida]]", "[[Mikado]]", ''[[Les Miserables]]'' (2nd time), "[[Me and My Girl]]".
-The Theater Arts classes put on several different shows for the public each year; in addition, the [[actor|Thespian]] club puts on a performance and competes at drama festivals.
-==Sports==
-Traverse City West's most intense sports rival is with cross-town [[Traverse City Central High School]]. West competes in [[baseball]], [[basketball]], [[bowling]], [[cheerleading]], [[cross country running|cross country]], [[cross-country skiing]], [[figure skating]], [[dance]], [[downhill skiing]], [[equestrianism|equestrian]], [[football]], [[golf]], [[gymnastics]], [[ice hockey]], Juggling Club, [[lacrosse]], [[chess]], [[Football (soccer)|soccer]], [[softball]], [[swimming]], [[tennis]], [[Rugby football|rugby]], [[track and field]], and [[scholastic wrestling|wrestling]]. West's boys' soccer and girls' downhill skiing teams have each won a state championship.{{Fact|date=September 2008}} Their football team has also been particularly successful, sending multiple athletes to major college football programs and winning more Big North Conference titles than any other school in their conference.{{Fact|date=September 2008}} They are also annual playoff qualifiers and have never had a losing record in their school's history. They have played powerhouse programs such as [[Detroit Catholic Central]], [[Birmingham Brother Rice]], [[Rockford]], [[Grandville]], and [[Midland Dow]]. Their annual game with rival [[Traverse City Central High School]] brings in yearly crowds between 10,000 and 15,000 people.{{Fact|date=September 2008}}
-West also competes with their conference opponents [[Petoskey, Michigan|Petoskey]], [[Cadillac, Michigan|Cadillac]], [[Alpena High School (Michigan)|Alpena]], [[Traverse City Central High School]], and [[Gaylord, Michigan|Gaylord]] High Schools, the six largest high schools in [[Northern Michigan]], as a member of the Big North Conference.
-==Business and Technology==
-Traverse City West has an extensive amount of technology-related classes, including:
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-*Web Publishing
-*Computer Aided Drafting and Design
-*Business
-[[Category:Traverse City, Michigan]]
-[[Category:High schools in Michigan]]
-[[Category:Educational institutions established in 1997]]