East Greenwich High School

East Greenwich High School
Location
300 Avenger Drive
East Greenwich, Rhode Island 02818
United States
Information
Type Public
Established 1942
School district East Greenwich Public Schools
Superintendent Victor Mercurio
Principal Michael Podraza
Faculty 60.4 (on FTE basis)[1]
Grades 9–12
Enrollment 769[1] (2008-09)
Student to teacher ratio 12.7[1]
Hours in school day 6.5
Campus size 61.75 acres[2]
Color(s) Maroon and White         
Fight song "EG Rumble"
Athletics conference Rhode Island Interscholastic League
Mascot The Avenger
Team name Avengers
Accreditation New England Association of Schools and Colleges
Newspaper The Spectrum
Yearbook The Crimson
Alumni Donald Carcieri, Debra Messing, Mark Thompson
Website egsd.net

East Greenwich High School is a public secondary school located in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, U.S. The school serves students in grades 9-12 in the East Greenwich Public Schools system. East Greenwich is the wealthiest town in Rhode Island, and EGHS is the highest performing high school in the state. It is the only school in the country with the mascot, the "Avengers". East Greenwich High School was ranked 824 on Newsweek's list of America's Top 1,000 high schools[3] out of approximately 31,700 high schools in the United States.[4] It was the only public high school in Rhode Island to make the list.[5]

School and campus

East Greenwich High School was founded in 1942. Formerly East Greenwich Academy, East Greenwich High School was located on 100 Cedar Avenue, East Greenwich, RI from 1956 until 1967 when it moved to its current location on Avenger Drive. Its current building was constructed in 1967 and its design was noted by The Architects' Collaborative. It has undergone many improvements to make the building more modern. In 2004, a new state of the art gymnasium was completed. In 2010, a new football field, track, front entrance, science wing, and other various projects were completed. In 2012, the library was completely remodeled.

East Greenwich High School after the completion of its new entrance in 2010

As of the 2008-09 school year, the school had an enrollment of 769 students. As of September 2012, EGHS had a student-teacher ratio of 10:1, according to Rhode Island Monthly magazine.

Curriculum

East Greenwich High School is home to a very diverse curriculum. It offers Spanish, French, and Latin as foreign language. It also offers more than 150 different electives and many other advanced courses.

Testing scores and statistics

In 2012, East Greenwich High School was declared the top school in Rhode Island.[6] EGHS consistently has top scores in both the NECAP and SAT tests. It has a 98% graduation rate compared to the 84% average in the state.[7]

In September 2012, Rhode Island Monthly reported that East Greenwich HS had the state's highest grade 11 NECAP Science as well as Writing scores, as well as the highest average SAT scores in all three sections and combined. EGHS students average 1723 out of 2400 on the SAT.

East Greenwich High School was ranked 824 on Newsweek's list of America's Top 1,000 high schools[8] out of approximately 31,700 high schools in the United States.[9] It was the only public high school in Rhode Island to make the list.[10]

97% of EGHS students attend higher education after graduation.

Student publications

The Spectrum

The Spectrum, East Greenwich High School's student run newspaper was founded in 1976 by a group of students. It is published six times per school year and any student may participate in the publication of the newspaper.

The Crimson

The EGHS yearbook, The Crimson, has been published since the school's founding in 1942. It has been awarded First Place All-New England by the New England Scholastic Press Association at Boston University for the past 21 years. Any interested student may join the yearbook staff.

Athletics

Sports

Fall Sports: Cross country running, football, soccer, girls' field hockey, girls' tennis, and girls' volleyball.

Winter Sports: Basketball, boys' hockey, indoor track, competitive swimming, wrestling, and cheerleading.

Spring: Baseball, softball, golf, lacrosse, boys' tennis, outdoor track, sailing and boys' volleyball.

Championships

East Greenwich High School has won Rhode Island State Championships & National Championships (highest division or All State titles)

Division 1 Championships & National Championships

Avenger athletic teams have also won numerous other titles in Divisions II and III, as well as Class B and C championships. The most recent being the Division 2 Boys Soccer title in 2009 and the Division 2 Boys Lacrosse titles in 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014. Boys cross country also consistently wins the Class C championship (see below.)

Division 2 & 3 State Championships

Recent individual state champions include the past two girls tennis champions: Peri Sheinin in 2013, and Aleksandra Drljaca in 2012. In 2010, Nick Ross won the New England Indoor Track Championships 1000 meter run. In 2008, Mark Feigen won the New England Cross Country Championship. There have also been several other Avenger individual State and New England champions, All-Americans, as well as athletes who have gone on to compete in NCAA division I, II, and III athletics.

East Greenwich High School is the only school in the country nicknamed the Avengers.

Cross Country

Despite only having been re-instated in 2004, boys cross country has been the most successful program at EGHS in recent years, capturing the 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, and 2013 Class C titles, having the individual champion every year from 2004 to 2008, and in 2013. Class C contains the smallest classification of high schools in Rhode Island. Winning Class C would be the equivalent of winning a state championship in most other sports, since most other sports do not have an all-state championship that combines schools of all sizes.

Since 2005, 12 different Avenger boys have earned All State honors, and 25 have earned All Class honors. Several have earned the honors more than once.[14]

Since 2005, EG boys cross country has compiled a regular season record of 85 wins and 11 losses, the highest winning percentage of any team at EGHS.[15]

Head coach Peter Dion has been selected as the Rhode Island Cross Country Coach of Year three times: 2006, 2007, and 2013.

The 2007 boys cross country team defeated Bishop Hendricken in a dual meet, ending the second longest winning streak in the country. Hendricken had not lost a dual meet since 1978, amassing over 250 consecutive regular season wins. (During that time Hendricken also collected 22 Class A titles, 16 State Championships, and 9 New England crowns.)

Despite being among the five smallest high schools in the state, the 2007 team was undefeated against Rhode Island schools, won the Division, Class, and State Championships, were runner-up at the New England Championship, and ranked top 10 in the Northeast Region.[16]

In 2008, two of the team's runners finished 1st and 3rd at the New England Championship, the best finish ever by teammates in the 78-year history of the race.[17]

East Greenwich was the only public school to finish top 6 in Rhode Island every year from 2005 to 2009, qualifying for the New England Championship (joining larger private schools Hendricken and LaSalle Academy). In 2012 and 2013, the boys team finished third in the state. In 2013, East Greenwich won the Freshman State Championship, their first-ever Freshman title.

The girls cross country team has also been successful, having won 9 of the past 15 Class C Championships before being moved up to Class B in 2012. They were state runners-up in 1997 and 1998, and had EG's only individual state champion, Nicole Millette, in 2002.[18]

Notable alumni

References

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  2. ↑ "Appraisal Resource Property Detail Page". Appraisalresource.com. 2009-06-22. Retrieved 2012-05-27.
  3. ↑ "Two R.I. high schools named on Newsweek’s top list - PBN.com - Providence Business News". PBN.com. 2012-05-20. Retrieved 2012-05-27.
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  7. ↑ "East Greenwich High School in East Greenwich, Rhode Island (RI) - Test Results, Rating, Ranking, Grades, Scores, Classes, Enrollment, Teachers, Students, and Report Card". City-data.com. Retrieved 2012-05-27.
  8. ↑ "Two R.I. high schools named on Newsweek’s top list - PBN.com - Providence Business News". PBN.com. 2012-05-20. Retrieved 2012-05-27.
  9. ↑ "Archived: High School Facts at a Glance". .ed.gov. 2007-10-16. Retrieved 2012-05-27.
  10. ↑ http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/05/20/america-s-best-high-schools.html
  11. ↑ "Past State Champions 1926-present". rihockey.net. Retrieved 2008-02-28.
  12. ↑ Venable takes boys XC crown; East Greenwich wins first team title. HS Game Time - Rhode Island Blog. Retrieved on 2008-03-05.
  13. ↑ "State Boys Cross Country Team Champions". Rhode Island Interscholastic League. Retrieved 2008-03-16.
  14. ↑ "RITCA Meet Results".
  15. ↑ "Boys Cross Country Team W/L Records".
  16. ↑ "2007 Boys Cross Country League Standings".
  17. ↑ "RI Boys Cross Country New England Titles".
  18. ↑ "Girls Cross Country State Meet Individual Champions".
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  20. ↑ Katherine Gregg; Liz Anderson (2005-02-24). "Governor's wife has active role at his side". Providence Journal. Retrieved 2008-01-01.
  21. ↑ Julia Szabo (June 2004). "Celebrity Turnarounds". Good Housekeeping. Retrieved 2008-02-28.
  22. ↑ "Leann Tingley". Miss Rhode Island USA. Retrieved 2008-01-01.

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