West Valley Middle School is an educational center in the San Fernando Valley, California. Their colors are blue and orange, similar to that of its sister school, West Valley High School.
History[]
Anthony LaRusso, who was the son of Miyagi-Do sensei and former two-time All Valley champion Daniel LaRusso, enrolled at West Valley Middle School. Due to his unsupervised lifestyle and addiction to video games, he began to hang around with a group of bullies. One day, Anthony and his friends began to bully a new student named Kenny Payne, which started when he was about to board the school bus and was being made fun of due to performing his dance moves.
During a basketball game at gym class, Anthony was attracted to the attention of Lia Cabrera due to her basketball skills until he is called by the coach to line up alongside Zack and Kenny. Anthony began playing on defense against Kenny, though he is able to score a layup, also revealing to be skilled in basketball. Anthony tried to make his own shot only for Kenny to hit the ball onto his face by accident. Kenny and Anthony began facing off, but the situation was intervened by Lia, who told Anthony to take it easy on Kenny. Because of this, Lia began to take an interest with Kenny and the two became friends as she complimented his shirt and told him to ignore Anthony and his gang. In response to this, Anthony and his friends play Dungeon Lord and catfish Kenny by making him believe that he is talking to Lia so they can lure him into a trap at Balboa Park. These actions cause Kenny to join the Cobra Kai Dojo. Some time later, Kenny, Lia, and the rest of West Valley Middle School takes a field trip to its high school counterpart, where Kenny is confronted by Hawk, Bert and Nathaniel, who tell him to leave Cobra Kai due to their merciless teachings.
At another day at school, Anthony continued to make fun of Kenny once more when he began stealing his Cobra Kai sweatshirt while changing, which resulted Kenny to be humiliated in front of everyone. The bullying still continued when Anthony tried to make amends with Kenny, only to be called "LaPusso", which resulted him and his gang chasing Kenny throughout the hallway and into the library. Going into hiding and turning the lights off, Kenny began defeating them one by one until Anthony was left. Kenny begins to grab Anthony but the librarian catches them in the process and sends them to the principal's office. This resulted in Anthony's parents Daniel and Amanda to be involved in the situation, being informed by the principal that Anthony and his friends will be suspended. When Daniel believes if Anthony was bullied, the principal shows them evidence that he was the bully all along when he and his friends put milk in Kenny's locker and video footage of them chasing him earlier. Kenny is off the hook and tells Anthony that he finally got him caught. Even worse, the suspension puts Anthony facing a worst punishment, being sent to his room and having his electronic privileges being suspended as a result. However, Anthony secretly hid an iPad in his bedroom which was eventually destroyed by Daniel, who has had enough of his attitude and told him to follow his rules or face a much worst punishment.
Students[]
Graduated[]
- Kenny Payne (Graduated to WVHS)
- Anthony LaRusso (Graduated to WVHS)
- Lia Cabrera (Graduated)
- Zack Thompson (Graduated)
- Slade Wang (Graduated)
- Marcus (Graduated)
Faculty[]
- Principal Fitzpatrick[1]
- Gym Teacher
- Unnamed librarian
Events[]
Appearances[]
Season 4[]
Trivia[]
- This is the only middle school to appear in the Miyagi-verse, and the first school to be under high school. The only other lower grade school was featured in The Karate Kid (2010).