with Western High School. To this day, Western Middle School occupies half of the building that was originally designed for the high school. The two schools are able to operate simultaneously because of different schedules. In addition, classrooms are physically separated into different areas of the building. The two schools share the building's swimming pool, gymnasium, and commons. In the 1980s, some portions of the school's tunnel systems collapsed due to water damage and was fixed with wooden beams and to prevent future damage. Bay City Western has earned athletic state championships in 1999 in Michigan Division I Boys' Golf, and in 2013 and 2014 in Division 1 Baseball. In 2006 the Pompon team earned a state championship at the Highkick competition. Building Western High School has the usual number of academic departments. These include English, math, social studies, science, computers, arts, broadcasting and communications, human services, physical education and industrial arts, all of which are separated into wings. There is a library in between the high school and middle school sides; they are connected as one room, but students are restricted from the other school's library. There is also a second floor which consists mostly of math, human services, social studies, and computers as of which a middle school portion is connected in the east wing. The lower portion of the first floor on the south side of school consists of science, social studies, and English. The library entrance is also in this area as well as a locker bay. The south portion also consists of most of the classrooms in middle school. Heading north are the administration offices which are halfway between the lower level and the second floor which leads to the main entrances, commons, gym on the west side. To the east are Bryant Auditorium and the Arts Department. The Arts Department offers classes such as art, auto-mechanics, industrial drawing, welding, wood shop, video and radio, drama, choir and band. There is a backside and backstage entrance to Bryant Auditorium as well as a locker bay and entrances to the school's tunnel system. Bryant Auditorium seats about 1200 people and is used for various activities including school plays and presentations. Beneath the stage is a rehearsal/dressing room and behind the stage contains the part of the Sound system and access stairs to the technical aspects of the lighting system. There is also a loading dock behind