[2] As of 2017, 25.1% of students at the elementary campus are speakers of English as a second language (ESL) and 13.5% have special needs.
[6] In order to be admitted, prospective students must undergo a third-party psychological assessment and intelligence testing, such as the WAIS, WPPSI, WISC or Stanford-Binet fifth edition.
Prospective students should meet the recommended criteria for Gifted and Talented, which is a WAIS Full Scale IQ (FSIQ) score or a WAIS General Abilities Index (GAI) score of 130 (+/- 5).
They have since progressed through a building on the site of CFB Calgary from 1998 to 2001, then for ten years shared the Viscount Bennett Centre with Chinook Learning Services.
In September 2011, Westmount moved to two buildings: Parkdale Elementary, which houses Kindergarten to Grade 4, and Sir William Van Horne High School in University Heights, which houses Grades 5 to 12.