Enloe High School

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William G. Enloe High School
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Type: Public (Magnet)
Founded: 1962
Location: 128 Clarendon Crescent
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Principal: Dr. Beth Cochran
Vice Principal(s): Delores Darden
Shekina Moore
Andrew Livengood
Matt Rice
Penny Vagle
Voris McBurnette
Focus: Arts
Humanities
Sciences
Degrees: IB Diploma
Programs: IB Programme
Class Hours: 7:30am - 2:15pm
Schedule Type: Traditional, 8-period
Students: 2,312
Teachers: 148
Phone: +1 919 856-7918
Fax: +1 919 856-7917
Website: enloehs.wcpss.net

The William G. Enloe GT/IB Center for Humanities, Sciences, and Arts (Enloe High School) is a Wake County Public School System public magnet high school located in east Raleigh, North Carolina. The school is named for William Gillmore Enloe, the mayor of Raleigh at the time the school was opened. Enloe is currently ranked 52nd in Newsweek's list of the top United States schools.[1]

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[edit] Demographics

Enloe has 2,493 enrolled students.[2] Of this large population, 12% are of Asian descent — the largest population of students with Asian ancestries found in any school in Wake County. The remainder of Enloe's student population is comprised of students with ancestries of European (51%), African (34%), and Hispanic (2%) descent. At Enloe, 33% of the student body meets free or reduced lunch price qualifications.

There are 148 members of the Enloe teaching staff, and many support personnel employed in administration, guidance and similar positions.[3] Enloe prides itself on a skilled and accredited faculty, of which 25 members are nationally certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and 39% possess an advanced degree (Masters or Ph.D.) in their respective fields.[4]

[edit] Technology

At Enloe, 100% of instructional classrooms have reliable connections to Internet resources. In addition to full-campus technological connectivity, Enloe provides nearly one computer console terminal for every two students, compared with the state average of more than three students per terminal. Made possible through various private, corporate, local, state, and federal grants, Enloe's facilities provide three open-access computer labs for use by students and classes, several "mobile labs" consisting of two dozen laptops, and an additional half-dozen labs devoted to specific courses and subject areas. Specialized computer labs are provided for classes taught in several subject areas, including computer science, drafting, and graphic arts. They also have an award winning television program that wins numerous National Academy Television Student Awards for the Nasheville Midsouth Chapter,[5] most recently winning a NSTAE for a food drive promotion.

[edit] History

Enloe High School was actually organized as two different schools that shared athletic facilities between adjacent campuses — William G. Enloe Senior High and Charles B. Aycock Junior High. The original Enloe campus was opened in 1962 as the first integrated secondary school in Raleigh for the education of students participating in grades seven through twelve.

Three years after Enloe opened its doors, Aycock was created on an adjacent campus as a junior high school to educate students in the seventh through ninth grades, and Enloe became a senior high school with concentrated education for grades ten through twelve. Enloe absorbed the Aycock campus in 1979, becoming a modern high school focused on education educating ninth through twelfth grade students. The Aycock building became the East Campus, while the original Enloe complex became the West Campus.[6]

In 1980, Enloe began providing magnet courses for "gifted and talented" students in Wake County. The school was promoted to full magnet status in 1982. The "magnet" designation means that Enloe offers many courses that other Wake County schools do not, and provides services to its students that are not available to them at their "base" schools. At Enloe, like many magnet schools, the majority of the student body uses publicly provided transportation to shuttle them to school, though Enloe retains its own "base" population.

In July 1997, Enloe became an IB World School, allowing students to pursue the challenging International Baccalaureate Programme. Enloe IB students are occasionally invited to attend special events or trips through their involvement in the IB Programme. In the recent past, Enloe IB students have participated in exchanges with high schools in China (2004-2005)[7] and Germany (2005-2006), and have begun a relationship with students at a high school in Turkey though the use of video conferencing technology.[8]

With the recent abandonment of the East Building and the moving of classrooms into the "West Extension", which has also been lovingly dubbed the "Middle East", students have taken to vandalizing the empty East Building. Much of the supplies and goods left behind by teachers have been stolen or destroyed, along with the appearance of the word "VANDALISM" written in numerous areas of the campus. The school Administration has not taken any action on this problem due the inconsequential nature of the former East Campus.

[edit] Evangelist controversy

In February, 2007, the school came under fire from Muslim advocacy groups after social studies teacher Robert Escamilla invited Kamil Solomon, a Coptic Christian evangelist and head of Kamil International Ministries, to speak and distribute anti-Muslim literature to students. The Council on American Islamic Relations and parents of Muslim students universally condemned the school for breaching federal civil rights laws and promoting hate in a public school. School principal Beth Cochran promised to investigate the matter but refused to issue an apology saying the school was only promoting "the free exchange of ideas." Recently numerous instances of graffiti have appeared around the school bearing the slogan "FREE ESCO!". [9]

[edit] Notable alumni

[edit] References

  1. ^ "The Complete List of the 1,000 Top U.S. Schools", Newsweek, 2005-08-05. Retrieved on 2006-07-25.
  2. ^ School Directory: Enloe High. Retrieved on 25 July 2006.
  3. ^ NC School Report Cards: Classroom Teachers. Retrieved on 25 July 2006.
  4. ^ National Board Certified Faculty Members. Retrieved on 25 July 2006.
  5. ^ NC School Report Cards: Access to Books and Technology. Retrieved on 25 July 2006.
  6. ^ Enloe High School School History. Retrieved on 25 July 2006.
  7. ^ Enloe IB Chinese Exchange - Information & Reflections. Retrieved on 25 July 2006.
  8. ^ Enloe & Eyuboglu Partnership - Initial Teleconference. Retrieved on 25 July 2006.
  9. ^ Shimron, Yonat; Kinea White Epps (February 22, 2007). Students told to shun Muslims. Retrieved on February 22, 2007.

[edit] External links

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