Type Public School district CHCCS Faculty 195 Phone +1 919-969-2482 Colors Black, Silver | Established August 20, 1996 Principal Eileen Tully Grades 9–12 Mascot Wildcats | |
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Address 500 Weaver Dairy Rd, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA District Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Similar Chapel Hill High School, Carrboro High School, Culbreth Middle School, McDougle Middle School, Phillips Middle School | ||
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East Chapel Hill High School ("East") is a public high school in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It is the second high school of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools district, which also contains Chapel Hill High School and Carrboro High School. The total enrollment in the 2013-2014 school year was 1,409 with 48% minority students.
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- Academics
- Competitions
- Demographics
- Athletics
- Alumni association
- Hostage crisis
- Notable alumni
- References
Although East previously ranked within the top 100 of American public high schools on U.S. News, reaching as high as #23, it has not appeared on the list since the 2009–2010 school year due to being disqualified by achievement gaps. In 2012, it ranked #88 in Newsweek's "America's Best High Schools 2012."
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Academics
East is a highly competitive school in which students typically score above the national average on standardized tests. In the 2010 school year the median weighted GPA was 3.91, and the median SAT score was 1809, compared to the state average of 1485. Also, 614 students participated in Advanced Placement (AP) examinations with 79% of all scores above a 3. The school scored the 2nd highest average SAT score in the Raleigh Durham area (behind Raleigh Charter High) in 2012 with 141 students taking the test and scoring and average of 1858. In 2010, the average was also 1858.
Competitions
East has consistently performed strongly in academic competitions. In both 2009 and 2010, East was a finalist in the International Space Settlement Design Competition. East also placed 1st in both 2011 and 2012's North Carolina Ethics Bowl competitions, and both 1st and 2nd in 2013 and 2014 North Carolina Ethics Bowl and 1st in 2014 Ethics Bowl Nationals. In 2012, East hosted the first North Carolina tournament for the National History Bee and Bowl, in which East teams placed 1st in both Junior Varsity and Varsity divisions, and the 1st and 2nd places in the Varsity division Bee went to East players. In Science Olympiad, East has placed in the top 5 in North Carolina from 2011-2014 including many notable first and second placements in various events. In 2012, an East contestant in Model United Nations placed 2nd in the West Triangle chapter competition, while both 1st and 2nd prizes went to East students in the 2011 competition.
From 2011–13, East was also a major national factor in high school quiz bowl competitions. At the 2012 NAQT high school national championship tournament, East tied for 13th place overall in the playoffs, with individuals ranked #31 and 43. Two members were also named to the North Carolina All-Star Team, which placed 7th overall in the 2012 NASAT. East finished with a year-end ranking of 14, the highest of any team from North Carolina. East came back from the loss of their top scorer to exceed their previous performance, tying for 8th place in the 2013 HSNCT, with the #11-ranked individual.
Demographics
According to 2002–2004 school statistics, 63% of the school's student body is white, 18% is African American, 5% is Hispanic, and 24% is Asian. 52% of the student body is male and 48％ is female. Over the same time period, out of a total of 1706 students 30% (513 students) were in the 9th grade, 24.6% (421 students) were in the 10th grade, 25% (426) were in the 11th grade and 20.3% (346 students) were in the 12th grade. There were a total of 69 teachers making for a 1:25 ratio of teachers to students.
Athletics
Athletic programs make up a large part of student life at East, and East's teams have been highly competitive and successful every year since the school's inception in 1996. East fields teams in sports across the board. Fall sports include: football, men's soccer, women's tennis, field hockey, volleyball, cheerleading, women's golf, and men's and women's cross country. Winter sports include: men's and women's swimming and diving, men's and women's basketball, wrestling, cheerleading, and Men's and Women's Indoor Track and Field. Spring sports include men's tennis, baseball, softball, men's and women's track & field, men's golf, women's soccer, and men's and women's lacrosse. Since 1996, East teams have won many NC state, regional, conference, and individual championships. As of Fall 2004, East's women's tennis team had won 7 3A State Championships in a row. In the spring of 2008 the men's tennis team won the 4A state championships. In 2005, Sports Illustrated named East Chapel Hill the best sports high school in North Carolina. In the fall of 2015 the field hockey team won the NCFHA State Championship for the eighth year in a row but finished fourth in their 2016 season losing to rival Chapel Hill High School . The East men's lacrosse program has also won 2 state championships and was runner up three times in the past ten years. The women's lacrosse program has won four state championships in six appearances since the program's inception, including three consecutive titles from 2002 to 2004; the most recent state title was won in 2013.
The mascot is the Wildcat, in keeping with the school system's theme of big cats for high school mascots.
The school has a rivalry with the nearby Chapel Hill High School.
Alumni association
Proposals for the creation of an alumni association for East began in fall of 2007. These efforts took off in 2009 with the drafting of organizational bylaws, the creation of a Board of Directors, and the launching of a website.
Hostage crisis
On April 24, 2006, eighteen-year-old student W.B. Foster held both teacher Lisa Kukla, and a student hostage with a shotgun, a hunting knife, and a pistol. After more than an hour, Lisa Kukla was able to talk Foster out of harming her or the student. Instead, Foster fired a shot through the window and fled, but was later turned in to the police. It's unknown why Foster held those two hostage, since he was never taught by Kukla, and didn't seem to know the student. In June 2007, Foster was sentenced to five years of probation, because his attorneys said he had schizophrenia.