For many years, Westtown was nearly self-sufficient, with the campus providing raw materials used in the construction of its buildings and food for the people who lived and worked at the school.

[citation needed] Westtown is the oldest continuously operating co-educational boarding school in the United States.

However, Westtown eventually recognized that students of both genders should know basic academic subjects such as reading, penmanship, grammar, mathematics, geography, and science.

For example, the school added visual and performing arts, and non-Quakers, African-American, and international students were eventually admitted.

[citation needed] Westtown's Esther Duke Archives is a facility dedicated to collecting and maintaining materials relating to the people and history of the school.

[10][11] The Westtown Wrestling team, led by legendary coaches Jay Farrow '75 and Timothy Loose, has amassed 26 League Titles.

The campus is 600 acres, including a 14.5-acre lake, arboretum, frog pond, 14 playing fields, stadium tennis courts, organic farm, Lower School mini-farm, medicine wheel garden, wooded cross country course, and 21-element ropes course.