East Chapel Hill High School

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established = 1996
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students = 1,612
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grades = 9–12
address = 500 Weaver Dairy Road
city = Chapel Hill
state = North Carolina
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newspaper = The ECHO
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national_ranking = 149th
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nickname = Wildcats
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East Chapel Hill High School is a public high school in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It is the second school of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools district which contains two other high schools, Chapel Hill High School and Carrboro High School (respectively). The school's principal is David Thaden, and the mascot is the Wildcat. East holds multiple 3A and 4A championships and is home to many award-winning extracurricular groups. Many of its students take Advanced Placement (AP) courses. East Chapel Hill High School is currently the 149th ranked public high school according to "Newsweek", it was ranked the 38th best high school in 2005 and has fallen in rankings every year since then. [ [http://www.newsweek.com/id/39380/?s=east+chapel+hill America's Top Public High Schools | Newsweek Best High Schools | Newsweek.com ] ]

Academics

This is a highly competitive school in which the students typically score above the national average on standardized tests. In the 2002 school year the median GPA was 3.56, and the median SAT score was 1181 compared to the state average of 1001. Also, 313 students participated in Advanced Placement (AP) examinations with 53% of all scores scoring above a 3. [http://www2.chccs.k12.nc.us/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=18378]

Demographics

According to 2002-2004 school statistics, 63% of the school's student body is white, 18% is African American, 5% is Hispanic, and 14% is Asian. 52% of the student body is male and 48％ is female. For this time period, out of a total of 1706 students 30% (513 students) was in the 9th grade, 24.6% (421 students) was in the 10th grade, 25% (426) was in the 11th grade and 20.3% (346 students) was in the 12th grade. There were a total of 69 teachers making for a 1:25 ratio of teachers to students. [http://www.publicschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/59140]

Athletics

*Athletic programs make up a large part of student life at East, and East's teams have been highly competitive and successful every year since the school's inception in 1996. East fields teams in sports across the board. Fall sports include: football, men's soccer, women's tennis, field hockey, volleyball, cheerleading, women's golf, and men's and women's cross country. Winter sports include: men's and women's swimming and diving, men's and women's basketball, wrestling, cheerleading, and Men's and Women's Indoor Track and Field. Spring sports include men's tennis, baseball, softball, men's and women's track & field, men's golf, women's soccer, and men's and women's lacrosse. Since 1996, East teams have won many NC state, regional, conference, and individual championships.In the spring of 2008 the men's tennis team won the 4A state championships.

Alumni Association

Proposals for the creation of an alumni association for East began in Fall of 2007. These proposals have been led by members of the 2002 graduating class. The PTSA (Parent-Teacher-Student Association) has expressed support for this fledging concept.

Notable Events

*On April 24, 2006, eighteen-year-old student W.B. Foster held both teacher Lisa Kukla, and student Chelsea Slegal hostage with a shotgun, a hunting knife, and a pistol. After more than an hour, Lisa Kukla was able to talk Foster out of harming her or Slegal. Instead, Foster fired a shot through the window and fled, but was later turned in to the police. It's unknown why Foster held those two hostage, since he was never taught by Kukla, and didn't seem to know Slegal. In June 2007, Foster was sentenced to five years of probation, because his attorneys claimed he had schizophrenia. [http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/1497979/]

*In July 2006, a junior at East Chapel Hill High School, Arnav Tripathy, won a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad in Slovenia. He was one of the two members on the U.S. squad that won gold medals. Competing in a field of 498 students from 90 countries, Tripathy helped the U.S. team finish fifth overall. Tripathy also has been enrolled in undergraduate level math courses at UNC since 9th grade, and has been enrolled in graduate level math courses at UNC since 11th grade. During the qualification for the IMO, Arnav Tripathy scored 150/150 on the AMC 12. [ [http://www.math.uncc.edu/~hbreiter/AHSME/2006topamc12Astu.htm 2006 AMC 12A State Student Listing] ] He then scored a 14/15 on the AIME examination. [ [http://www.math.uncc.edu/~hbreiter/AHSME/AIME2006.htm 2006 AIME winners] ] He then won the USAMO, qualifying for the IMO. He then returned to the IMO in 2007, where he won a silver medal, one of three Americans to do so.

*In November 2007, an investigation began after the Orange County Department of Social Services reported that an East Chapel Hill High School teacher may have been having sexual relations with a student at the school. [ [http://blogs.newsobserver.com/orangechat/index.php?title=teacher_student_sex_report_investigated&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 News and Observer Report of Sex Scandel] ]

Notable Alumni

Arnav Tripathy - One of two members on US squad that won gold medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad in Slovenia.

References

External links

* [http://www2.chccs.k12.nc.us/education/school/school.php?sectionid=5 School website]
* [http://eteamz.active.com/echhs/index.cfm? Athletics]
* [http://www2.chccs.k12.nc.us/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=18378]
* [http://www.publicschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/59140]