Eastern High School (Washington, D.C.)
Eastern High School is a public high school in Washington, D.C. It educates about 1100 students in grades 9 through 12.The school is located on the eastern edge of the Capitol Hill neighborhood at the intersection of 17th Street and East Capital Street Northeast. Eastern was a part of the District of Columbia Public Schools restructuring project, reopening in 2011 to incoming freshmen and growing by a grade level each year. It graduated its first class in 2015.
| Eastern High School | |
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 Eastern High School in 2011 | |
| Location | |
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1700 East Capitol Street NE Washington, D.C. 20003 United States | |
| Coordinates | 38°53′26″N 76°58′49″W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public |
| Motto | The Pride of Capitol Hill |
| Established | 1890 |
| School district | District of Columbia Public Schools |
| NCES School ID | 110003000078[1] |
| Principal | Sah Brown |
| Faculty | 63.00 (on FTE basis)[1] |
| Grades | 9 to 12 |
| Enrollment | 792 (2019-2020)[1] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 12.57[1] |
| Color(s) | Blue & White |
| Mascot | Rambler |
| Metro Stop | Stadium Armory |
| Website | www |
Eastern is part of the District of Columbia Public Schools. It was founded in 1890 as the Capitol Hill High School was later relocated and rebuilt in the collegiate gothic style and renamed Eastern Senior High School.[2]
Eastern was designated an International Baccalaureate school in 2013, and awarded its first IB diploma in 2015.[3] Expected growth will make Eastern the second biggest high school in District of Columbia Public Schools after Wilson, with over 1500 students.[1]
Sports
- Football
- Basketball
- Track
- Volleyball
- Soccer
- Baseball
- Softball
Feeder patterns
The following elementary schools feed into Eastern:
- Brent
- Browne Education Campus
- Capitol Hill Montessori @ Logan
- J.O. Wilson
- Ludlow-Taylor
- Maury
- Miner
- Payne
- Peabody (Capitol Hill Cluster School)
- Tyler
- Van Ness
- Watkins (Capitol Hill Cluster School)
The following middle schools feed into Eastern:
- Browne Education Campus
- Capitol Hill Montessori
- Eliot-Hine
- Jefferson
- Kelly Miller
- Stuart-Hobson (Capitol Hill Cluster School)
Notable alumni
- Vernon D. Acree (1937), Commissioner of the United States Customs Service[4]
- Gayle Adams (1970), disco, funk, and house music musician
- Maude E. Aiton (1894), D.C. Public Schools teacher, principal of the Webster Americanization School in Washington D.C.[5][6]
- Calvin Beale (1941), demographer whose work led to the development of the Beale code[7]
- Monta Bell (1909), film director, producer, screenwriter[8]
- George D. Beveridge (1940), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
- George S. Blanchard (1938), United States Army four-star general[9]
- Robin Campbell (attended, did not graduate), Olympic sprinter[10]
- Jerry Chambers (1961), former NBA player[11]
- Dave Chappelle (attended, did not graduate), actor, comedian[12]
- Bennett Champ Clark (1908), United States Senator (Missouri), D.C. Circuit court judge[13]
- Al Chesley (1975), former NFL linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles)[14]
- The Choice Four (1969), all-male soul vocal group[15]
- Gail Cobb (attended, did not graduate), D.C. Metropolitan Police officer who was the first female police officer in the United States killed in the line of duty[16]
- Vince Colbert (1964), former Major League Baseball pitcher, (Cleveland Indians)[17]
- Y'Anna Crawley (1995), contemporary gospel music artist, winner on BET's Sunday Best[18]
- Lester A. Dessez (1914), United States Marine Corps Brigadier general
- Stephen Early (1907), White House Press Secretary, United States Deputy Secretary of Defense[19]
- Pat Flaherty (attended, did not graduate), actor, Major League Baseball pitcher for five teams, punter for the Chicago Bears[20]
- Isaac Fulwood (1959), Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia (1989–1992)[21]
- Alexander D. Goode (1929), rabbi of the United States Army who was one of the Four Chaplains who gave their lives saving soldiers during the sinking of the Dorchester[22]
- Alvin C. Graves (1927), nuclear physicist[23]
- Cecil D. Haney (1974), retired United States Navy admiral[24]
- Ernest E. Harmon (1911), early aviator[25]
- George Huddleston Jr. (1937), member of the United States House Of Representatives (Alabama)[26]
- Gilbert Hunt (1934), mathematician, tennis player[27]
- Mark Johnson (1989), former professional boxer, International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee[28]
- Gilbert Kelly (1896), American football player (Princeton), football coach (University of Tennessee)[29]
- Charles T. Lanham (1920), United States Army major general, author, poet[30]
- Kevin LeVar (1995), singer, songwriter
- Jackie Martin (1921), award-winning photojournalist[31]
- Mike Martin (1979), former NFL wide receiver, (Cincinnati Bengals)[32]
- Franklin McCain (1959), civil rights activist and member of the Greensboro Four[33]
- Charles Mooney (1969), American boxer
- Josh Morgan (attended, did not graduate), former NFL wide receiver[34]
- Edna G. Parker (1948), United States Tax Court judge[35]
- Art Perry (1964), former collegiate basketball coach[36]
- Jamorko Pickett (2016), NBA player (Detroit Pistons)[37]
- James Ratiff (1977), American basketball player, (Howard)[38]
- Thomas Robinson (attended, did not graduate), Lebanese basketball player[39]
- Sheila Abdus-Salaam (1970), New York Court of Appeals judge[40]
- Kelvin Scarborough (1983), American basketball player (University of New Mexico)[41]
- Eugene Scott (1999), political reporter for The Washington Post, former CNN reporter
- Dallas Shirley (1931), basketball referee[42]
- John Smith (1924), Major League Baseball utility player, (Boston Red Sox)[43]
- Mary Eleanor Spear (1915), data visualization specialist who pioneered the development of the bar chart and box plot[44]
- Gladys Spellman (attended, did not graduate), educator, member of the United States House of Representatives (Maryland)[45]
- Ibrahim K. Sundiata (1962), American scholar of West African and African-American history[46]
- Krissah Thompson (1993), managing editor for The Washington Post
- Brandon Todd (2001), former D.C. Council member[47]
- Earle Wheeler (1928), United States Army general[48]
- Mike Wilcher (1979), former NFL linebacker[49]
- Frank Wright (1950), award-winning artist[50]
Notable faculty
- Linda W. Cropp, at-large member of the Council of the District of Columbia (1991-1997), first female chair of the Council of the District of Columbia (1997-2007)[51]
- Patrick Lundy, gospel recording artist[52]
- Charles Mooney, retired boxer who won a silver medal in the boxing tournament at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada[53]
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