West Ashley High School

Welcome to the 2024-2025 School Year, Wildcats! Updates for this school year including 1st day information, traffic patterns, points of contact, etc. have been provided on the attached update sheet. Please copy and paste the link below in your browser for these updates. We look forward to seeing you tomorrow, Wildcats!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oxtkmJGMpkiv8qsZV7kUgYFAbkMtfjteIUfAzVsO5ik/edit?usp=sharing

CCSD Families- as we get ready for the start of the school year, make sure check out our Family Resources page on the district website. There is plenty of helpful information available, with more on the way this month and throughout the year.

https://www.ccsdschools.com/2024-2025-family-resources

For example, click on the "PowerSchool Parent Portal" for tips and resources on setting up and managing your accounts. One resource on the "PowerSchool Parent Portal" help page is a simple document showing you how to access your student's schedule (when it becomes available).

Wildcat Families— Our school website is experiencing some issues and is not updating as expected. Please rest assured that we are actively working with our website support services to resolve the situation and get everything back on track as quickly as possible.

We will be sharing our updates for the 2024-2025 school year with families over the weekend. We appreciate your patience and understanding while we work through our website issues. If you have any urgent questions or need assistance, please feel free to email your student's administrator who will respond early next week.

Wildcat Families—We hope everyone stayed safe and dry these past few days. Our building and offices will reopen to families tomorrow morning for assistance. In the meantime, please your student's administrator (provided below) for assistance.

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West Ashley Athletics would like to announce Coach Ariel Beane as our Interim Volleyball Head Coach! Coach Beane will also serve as our permanent Head Coach for our Women’s Lacrosse team as well! Coach Beane has been an Assistant Coach on both programs over the past year! We are excited about what is in store with Coach Beane!

Thank you to our fantastic PTSO, who came and stocked our Wildcat teacher workrooms on this rainy Sunday! We appreciate your time and effort in welcoming our faculty back this week!

Interested in joining our WAHS PTSO? Please see the information on the informational flyer attached. They would love to see you at their next meeting on Monday, September 9th at 5:30 in Room 102!

Wildcat Families- Thank you for your patience today as we work through schedule releases. Please copy and paste the link below in your browser for updates regarding PowerSchool Parent Portal access issues and schedule questions.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xb_A9qj4ZYxarDfnc-F9hFnu_dNUxJwUPmYWHBplA-E/edit?usp=sharing

Congratulations Jayla! We’re SO proud of you!

West Ashley high schooler's superhero-themed art triumphs in bridge run art contest The winner for the 2025 People’s Choice Award that decides the official look of the 2025 Cooper River Bridge Run, has been seletedAfter receiving triple the num

Today we had the privilege of hosting the Class of 2028 for their “Freshmen Orientation!” We can’t wait to see all that this group accomplishes over the next 4 years here.

Special thank you to all of our student and faculty volunteers- you made today possible. Full recap of orientation coming soon!

We are looking forward to meeting our incoming 9th Grade Wildcats tomorrow morning at "Freshmen Orientation!" Parents of registered students, please check your email for additional information.

To include questions for the student panel, please copy and paste this form link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScW2fWoz3fJG3_WefCpwooAW2bvqtGx9y-Lw4ihsASdxtFklQ/viewform?usp=sf_link.

Over the past two days, members from our Wildcat team have had the pleasure of not only participating in this year’s CCSD Educator Symposium, but hosting teams from across the district on our campus.

We’re looking forward to tomorrow’s sessions and taking everything we’ve learned into this next school year!

Go Wildcats!

Wildcat Families- Stay connected & engaged with all things CCSD! Join the Official Charleston County School District Parents group for important information and updates from our Superintendent and other senior district leaders!

Wildcat Nation, please join us in welcoming West Ashley High School’s next principal, Dr. Andrew Brandt!

Attention to all incoming 9th Grade Wildcats- we are SO excited to welcome you to our campus this August! We will be hosting “Freshmen Orientation” at WAHS on Monday, July 29th from 9:00-11:30am.

While orientation is not required, we hope to see you all there! During orientation, incoming 9th grade students will have the opportunity to meet some of their teachers, tour campus, and learn more about what to expect this coming school year. Transportation will not be provided for this opportunity.

Please complete the form below to register or visit our website! Additional orientation information, including arrival and dismissal information will be shared as the event nears.

https://forms.gle/KpXQbGrcaja3qeCF7

Let’s continue the welcoming, West Ashley High School would like to welcome Tre McLean as the Interim Boys Basketball Head Coach! Coach McLean is a 2012 graduate of West Ashley, who went on to have a successful career at UT Chattanooga where he won a Southeastern Conference Championship, and followed that up with a 6 year professional basketball career! Welcome Coach McLean!

West Ashley High School is excited to announce Brian Willis as our Head Baseball Coach! Coach Willis was an Assistant Coach on our staff and brings years of expertise to the table including coaching 50+ college athletes, as well as one current MLB pitcher. We are excited to see what the years to come have in store for our Baseball program. Congrats Coach Willis!

SAVE THE DATE: 2024-2025 Fact & Fee

Serving as the principal of West Ashley High School has been one of the greatest honors of my career. I am profoundly grateful for the support from the entire WA community and look forward to continuing to support WAHS in my new role.

Thank you all for your support, collaboration, and trust.

Congratulations are in order for Mr. Cumback on his promotion to Executive Director of the High School Learning Community. Like Mrs. Huggins told West Ashley staff this afternoon, “Good leaders put systems and structures in place so the positive work can continue whether the leader is present or not.” Mr. Cumback, without a doubt, has done just that for the Wildcat Family. Once a wildcat, always a wildcat. For more information, see this CCSD press release: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fIciDVrxnuJKjhTneGXI1k5pp2AUI7d7/view?usp=drivesdk

West Ashley High School was recognized as the Boeing MUSC Wellness Checklist Top Scoring High School. A huge thank you to Ms. Mintz and our SEL Committee for making this happen!

Last week we held our annual Powder Puff game! Thank you to all that came out and played, cheered, and supported! Congratulations to our Junior class for taking home the win!

One of West Ashley’s Best! Congrats, Ms. Bondy.

Congratulations to this week's, "Unsung Educator of the Week", Tegan Bondy, Honors English Teacher at West Ashley High School.

"Ms. Bondy is constantly going above and beyond for her students. She cares for them to succeed in both their academic careers and their personal lives. She is the kind of teacher who will FaceTime her kids when she is out for the day to help them with their research papers and answer questions about annotated bibliographies. She holds her students to high standards and does everything she can to ensure they meet them.

In addition to being an outstanding English educator, Ms. Bondy is also the leader of the Speech and Debate team at our school.

You can always count on seeing her at sporting events and band and choir concerts supporting all of her students. She is always willing to pick up the slack and volunteer for whatever the school needs.

She is simply outstanding and doesn’t get the recognition she deserves!" -- nominated by a colleague

The Société Honoraire de Français (French Honor Society) visited residents at Ashley Gardens Memory Care on April 29th. Students helped the residents paint France themed rocks which was an amazing opportunity for our students and residents!!