Highlights include visits from Governor Clements, P.M. Magazine, CBS Morning News, and Nickelodeon. Westwood is a family oriented school and features a very active PTO and many opportunities for parent involvement. Zue S. Bales Intermediate School has an enrollment of 568 students in grades 4-6 and is located in the North Zone. The state of the art building opened in 1994. Bales Intermediate was named after Zue Stevenson Bales, a Friendswood pioneer educator, primitive artist, musician, and missionary.
Bales offers instrumental band in the sixth grade.
Fine arts and choir are offered to all three grades. Bales is a TEA Exemplary campus. Students have advanced to regional and world competition in the Odyssey of the Mind program. Bales students also participate in Advanced math programs, gifted and talented classes, Student Council, Journalism Club, after school sports programs, Mad Science program, Junior Great Books Club, and Chess Club. School hours are 8 a.m.-3 p.m.