Eau Gallie High School

Coordinates: 28°7′49.33″N 80°38′49.77″W / 28.1303694°N 80.6471583°W / 28.1303694; -80.6471583

Eau Gallie High School is located at 1400 Commodore Blvd in the Eau Gallie area of Melbourne, Florida. It is one of four public high schools in Melbourne, along with Melbourne High School, Palm Bay High School, and West Shore Junior/Senior High School.

In sports the school was previously classified as 6A, the largest classification based on enrollment, but it is now 3A.

In 2010, the school graduated 384. Seven of the students simultaneously received Associate of Arts degrees from being co-enrolled in the local community college .^[1]

In 2010 Florida Today described the school: "predominately serves children of the working middle class."^[1]

History

The original school was located in the former city of Eau Gallie, overlooking the Indian River. The successor school is 3.5 miles (5.6 km) west.

Construction on the new Eau Gallie High School began in 1963. Students from the new building graduated in 1964. During the construction Eau Gallie High Students attended a split session at Melbourne High School.

The school had the lowest reportable incidents of any high school in Brevard for the 2006-7 school year.^[2] The school uses surveillance cameras to monitor student activity.^[3]

Academics

In 2009, 80% of students graduating went on to some form of higher education. 32% went to a four-year college, 48% to Brevard Community College.^[1]

In the 2009-2010 academic year, Eau Gallie was the only high school in the state to be classified as a national demonstration school for Advancement Via Individual Determination. This is a program that encourages middling students to aim for higher education at the four year university level and provides them the tools and advice needed to achieve that goal.

Student body

In 2010, one-fourth of the seniors came from low-income families.^[1]

Recognition

• In 2011 the Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps won first place in the AF JROTC academic bowl. They competed in Washington, D.C., against hundreds of other teams after winning the state competition.^[4]
• Girls fast pitch softball won the state championship 2011.^[5]
• From 2004-2008, the local Technology Student Association, won four years in a row at the state conference.
• Softball team rated during the season as number two in the nation in the USA Today high school softball poll 2007-8^[6]
• In 2007, the school Board awarded bonuses to sixty-nine teachers at Eau Gallie out of only 375 awards to the sixteen high schools in the county. This was double the awards to the second highest school.^[7]
• In 2007, the Eau Gallie Odyssey of the Mind Team placed first at World Competition for 'The Large and Small of It' Division III.^[8]
• In 2009, the Eau Gallie symphonic band went to Carnegie Hall in New York City to perform a 30-minute program as part of the National Band and Orchestra Festival.

Notable alumni

• Jeff Tam 1988 - Pitcher, professional baseball
• Tim Wakefield 1984 - Pitcher Pittsburgh Pirates, Boston Red Sox
• Matt Walters 1998 - Former NFL Lineman New York Jets^[9]
• Cody Laurendi 2006 - Goalkeeper Puerto Rico Islanders

Mascot/Colors

The mascot is the Commodore - It is believed that the first principal of Eau Gallie High School was a graduate from Vanderbilt University, whose mascot is also the Commodore.

The colors are Navy/Gold/Red.

Principals

1. Thomas A. Sawyer 1991 - 2010
2. Jeremy Salmon 2011 - current^[10]

Footnotes