Since our founding in 1980, Westside Neighborhood School (WNS) has always been future-focused, preparing students to thrive and lead in a future that will likely look different to the present day. But this year, more than ever at WNS, all eyes are on the dynamic future at WNS. We are on the precipice of a transformational change – a culmination of years of hard work to secure the school’s future. This year marked a significant milestone for our school as we proudly purchased our own building; an expansive, state-of-the-art 132,000 square-foot building sitting on 5 acres of land in Playa Vista that will cement the future of WNS forever. 

This ‘forever home’ at 5340 Alla Road, opening in fall 2026, is much more than a bigger building and double the acres of land. It has provided our highly skilled team of future thinkers and expert educators to collaborate on designing a PS-8 campus that will allow a diverse population of children to embrace a vibrant and rigorous future-focused academic program that will set WNS apart from other schools in the Los Angeles market.  

While visually stunning, most importantly, the building is being meticulously engineered to create an optimal learning environment for children, taking into consideration such details as the research-based impact of natural light, student access to light and green spaces, visual and spatial environments that provide a balance of calm and high level of academic engagement, and acoustic engineering in creating optimal conditions for students to thrive both academically and socially. This will be accompanied by larger classrooms to reduce density, and space for a project-based, future-driven curriculum that includes innovative entrepreneurial studies, visual and digital arts, theater, music, core academics, and space for imaginative play and the cultivation of big dreams.

WNS has partnered with architectural firm, Smith Clementi, for the design of what will be the premier preschool-8 educational facility in Los Angeles.