The East High Alumni Page: Today's East High School

The East High Alumni Page presents:

Today's East High School
East High School, Memphis, Tennessee

Some information about East High School in the present time.
Another good source of current information about East High is our
East In the News section and our History Section.

Academics

Building and Campus

The 2007 Tennessee Department of
Education Report Card on East High

The current principal of East High School is Mr. Fred Curry. He assumed the top administrative position at the school for the 2005-2006 school year.

As of August, 2007, the school known as East High became, for the first time in its history, only a high school. There is no middle school, or junior high, on campus. East High has only classes for grades 9 through 12. Grade 8 was eliminated after the 2006-2007 school year, grade 7 was moved the previous year. Elementary classes were discontinued at the school decades earlier

East High is the location for the school system's optional school program for college preparatory classes in health sciences, engineering, and allied health.

In January, 1999, East High School was chosen as one of
25 schools in the nation to be a "New American High School."

New American High Schools are selected to participate in a program with the goal of fully preparing students to meet the challenges of a changing technological and global economy. These schools expose students to information about careers while adhering to challenging academic standards. They help students acquire the communications, problem-solving, computer and technical skills
necessary to pursue college or other opportunities. The schools develop partnerships with the community, parents and post secondary institutions and are expected to demonstrate sustained student academic performance. Schools participating in this initiative have committed to monitor their academic activities in order to better gage their improvement in a number of areas. These include raising student achievement by focusing on specifics such as curriculum, teaching methods, after-school help, accountability, and effective relationships with middle schools and post secondary institutions.

Information about East's selection as a New American High School and the program itself is from The United States Department of Education. More information about the selection of East is available from the East In the News section of The East High Alumni Page.

For more information on the New American High School program itself, visit the U.S. Department of Education's NAHS web page

November 3, 2007 - The 2007 "report card" on schools was released November 2, 2007. See the data about East High at the Tennessee Department of Education web site. Use the tabs near the top of that page to see the various sections of data.

August 6, 2007 - State Recognizes improvement at East High. See our In the News ... section.

July 31, 2007 - Tennessee Department of Education intervenes in the running of 17 Memphis City Schools, including East High School. See our report and the State's directives.

2005 Annual Yearly Progress evaluation indicates failure to meet standards. Read more...

Dept.of Education Year 2004 Report Card on East High - click here

Fence along southern edge of East High Campus between the athletic fields and Poplar Avenue.

April 9, 2008 - Fenced in? A new fence on the campus was observed recently. Since part of the campus is also used by the Parks Division of the City of Memphis, it was not immediately known if the fence was erected by the Parks Department or by the school system. The green hurricane fence extends along the southern edge of the campus between the athletic fields and Poplar Avenue. There is no corresponding fence on the Walnut Grove Road side of the campus. There is an entry at the west end of the campus and one can walk around the end of the gate on the east side to access the athletic fields and the Sportplex park.

A renovated science classroom, 2007.

August 1, 2007 - Today's East High looks quite a bit different inside that the old East High after a $12.8 million renovation. Take a photo tour with the Mustang Roundup - Alumni Edition.

There are two schools on the East High Campus today: East High School and the East Career and Technology Center. The career and technology center had its beginnings with the construction of a vo-tech building in 1976. An additional building was added for the optional school programs (health sciences and engineering) in 1984. In 2006, these two buildings became part of a separate school from East High and the optional school programs were moved to the main building. The new buildings were placed on the highest point on the campus where some elementary classes had recess and several trees were removed to make way for the buildings.

East High Sportplex

In 1999, the Memphis Park Commission and City Schools completed a joint project to make the athletic fields area of campus the East High Sportplex. It features a 3/4 mile fitness trail, the school's 4 Lane 400m track, 2 soccer fields, 1 football/soccer field, 2 baseball/softball fields, and a playground. See our "In the news ..." section for more details.

About 1960, a senior high Physical Education dressing room was added to the school. It was used almost exclusively for senior high boys athletic programs.

In 1954, the auditorium was completed and opened. It had been removed from the original construction plans to save money. The auditorium was extensively remodeled in 2007.

"The annex," a 1951 addition to the school to provide additional classrooms to alleviate overcrowding was used for classes until the mid 1980s and then was used for offices and storage. In 2003, in association with a mold scare, it was demolished.

For more information about the building(s) and campus, please see our history page and our In the news ... section.

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