
November 4, 2021
There are a lot of new faces at the Westfield Virtual School. The school’s inaugural principal, Thomas Osborn, came on board in August, and has since hired school secretary Nicole...

November 1, 2021
The Westfield Public Schools Thanksgiving Food Drive is well underway and co-chairs Sue and Ralph Figy and Eileen and Jimmy Jachym have been behind the scenes asking area business...

November 1, 2021
On the same day that the Massachusetts School Building Authority voted unanimously to accept the plans and move forward with the detailed design and construction phase of the Fran...

October 25, 2021
City students become scientists for STEM Week by Amy Porter
If city students are suddenly talking even more about becoming scientists, technicians, engineers or mathematicians,...

October 21, 2021
Westfield Public Schools invites you to a Community Meeting on the MSBA Franklin Avenue Elementary School Project on Thursday, October 28 at 6:30 p.m. The event will be held at F...

October 20, 2021
THE WESTFIELD NEWS - Seventh and eighth grade computer science students from Westfield Middle School were given the opportunity to visit the operations headquarters for Westfield ...

October 18, 2021
K-Kids Leela Franzen, Zoe Eggleston, Abbie Madsen, Julia Jarvis and Lyla Harris hold up stickers they were selling as a fundraiser. (AMY PORTER/THE WESTFIELD NEWS: https://the...

October 18, 2021
THE WESTFIELD NEWS - Westfield Technical Academy Allied Health junior Morgan Salois-Holcomb put her training into practice recently at her job, when she performed the Heimlich man...

October 14, 2021
It’s hard to believe that it’s already eight weeks into the school year. While we hoped that this year would allow for a return to normal, that has unfortunately not been the cas...

October 12, 2021
WESTFIELD — Over the past two weeks, a dozen seniors from Electrical, Auto Tech, Construction and Horticulture Tech at Westfield Technical Academy worked side by side with instruc...

October 1, 2021
The Westfield Education to Business Alliance (WE2BA) had an enthusiastic Zoom kick-off meeting this week, with 40 educators and members of the business community talking about way...

September 28, 2021
Franklin Avenue Elementary School Principal Chris Tolpa recently announced that second grade teacher Lindsey Ayers has received a Project Lead the Way Outstanding Teacher Award fo...

September 28, 2021
This month’s survey on how to spend $10.78 million in federal pandemic-related grants “pretty much confirmed what we were thinking about how to use the funding,” School Superinten...

September 22, 2021
On Sept. 20, the School Committee approved two new two-year cooperative sports agreements for Westfield High School and Westfield Technical Academy boys and girls swim teams.
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September 22, 2021
When calling on Food Services Director Rachel Kania for an update to the School Committee on Sept. 20, Superintendent Stefan Czaporowski said he also wanted to take the opportunit...

September 16, 2021
In 2009, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) implemented its accountability system to measure individual school and district performance. Th...

August 31, 2021
We’re thrilled to announce Westfield Public Schools’s new app! It’s everything Westfield PS, in your pocket. With the new app, you can access sports scores, cafeteria menus, n...

August 27, 2021
Thomas Osborn, principal of the new Virtual K-8 School, is excited to be settling into the school’s offices on the second and third floor of the First Congregational Church at 18 ...
August 16, 2021
Westfield Public Schools and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health are pleased to offer Pfizer COVID-19 and Janssen J&J COVID-19 vaccination clinics to students, staff and...
August 9, 2021
Dear WPS Staff, Students, and Families,
The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) along with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH...