{{Use American English|date=August 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox school | name = Westmark School | logo = Westmark_School_Logo.jpg | logo_size = 150 | address = 5461 Louise Avenue | city = Encino | state = California | country = USA | coordinates = {{Coord|34.1704|N|118.5110|W|type:edu_region:US-CA|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | head_label = Head of school | head = Claudia Koochek<ref name="Fast Facts" /> | faculty = | ratio = | campus_size = 4.7 acres | enrollment = 238<ref name="Fast Facts">{{cite web |url=http://www.westmarkschool.org/about/fast-facts |title=Fast Facts |publisher=Westmark School |access-date=March 29, 2017}}</ref> | enrollment_as_of = | former_name = Landmark West | type = Private | us_nces_school_id = <!-- {{NCES Private School ID|the ID number|school_name=School name at NCES site|access_date=}} --> | grades = 2 to 12 | athletic_conference = | motto = | mascot = | nickname = | colors = | established = 1983<ref name="Fast Facts" /> | website = {{URL|www.westmarkschool.org}} }} '''Westmark School''' is a private school in Encino, California, teaching 2nd through 12th grade. The school serves children with language-based learning differences including attention-deficit disorder and dyslexia among other learning disorders.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url = http://patch.com/california/encino/change-the-future-of-special-education-theres-an-app-for-that|title = Change the Future of Special Education? There's an App for That|last = Rosenblum|first = Lauren|date = May 26, 2011|work = Encino-Tarzana Patch|access-date = February 1, 2015}}</ref>
The school was the first in the Los Angeles area to provide iPads to all students. School administrators and teachers consider the high costs worth it for what it adds to the education program.<ref name=":0" /> Westmark has a television station education program in which its 5th grade students write the material and produce the program.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Authentic Learning|last = Slavkin|first = Michael|publisher = R&L Education|year = 2004|isbn = 9781578860944|page = [https://archive.org/details/authenticlearnin0000slav/page/49 <!-- quote="one example of intermediate brain-based learning". --> 49]}}</ref> The school library has materials of various types to cater to the students with various learning needs.<ref>Guild, Sandy. "Accommodating Learning Differences" (a section of Chapter 8: Underserved). In: Woolls, Blanche and David V. Loertscher (editors). ''The Whole School Library Handbook 2''. American Library Association, 2013. {{ISBN|0838911277}}, 9780838911273. Start: [https://books.google.com/books?id=E-GcAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA140 140]. CITED: [https://books.google.com/books?id=E-GcAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA142 142].</ref>
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==External links== * [http://www.westmarkschool.org Westmark School website] {{Encino, Los Angeles}} {{San Fernando Valley Schools}} {{Los Angeles County Private Schools}}
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