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William G. Enloe High School
Location
Map
128 Clarendon Crescent

Raleigh
,
North Carolina

 United States
Information
School typePublic (Magnet, IB, GT) Secondary
Founded1962
DeanPatty Miller
PrincipalDr. Will Chavis[1]
Staff210
Enrollment2,610[2]
Education systemWake County Public School System
Classes offeredHonors, AP, and IB in the Arts, Humanities, Sciences
ScheduleA/B, 8 periods total
MascotEdgar the Eagle
RivalNeedham B. Broughton High School
NewspaperThe Eagle's Eye
YearbookQuotannis
Assistant principalsBecky Foote
Tiffanny Scott
Jose Espinal
Monica Sawyer
Joseph Eno
Joshua Mallory
DegreesIB Diploma
ProgramsIB Programme;
GATE;
Medical Bioscience Academy;
Design, Merchandising, and Technology Academy;
Automotive Technology Business Alliance;
Teach Prep
MagazineStone Soup
Websitewww.wcpss.net/enloehs

William G. Enloe GT/IB Center for the Humanities, Sciences, and the Arts, also called Enloe Magnet High School and Enloe High School, is a public magnet high school offering Gifted & Talented and International Baccalaureate programs located in eastern Raleigh, North Carolina. It is operated under the Wake County Public School System. The school is named after William Gilmore Enloe, the Mayor of Raleigh at the time the school was opened. It was the first integrated public high school in the city of Raleigh.

History

William G. Enloe High School was originally organized as two different schools that shared athletic facilities between adjacent campuses – William G. Enloe Senior High School and Charles B. Aycock Junior High. The original Enloe campus was opened in 1962 as the first integrated secondary school in Raleigh[3] for the education of students participating in grades seven through twelve and served as the secondary educational institution for the Longview Gardens community.[4] Enloe's mixed population was drawn from the white student body at Needham B. Broughton High School and the black one at John W. Ligon High School. It was deemed undesirable to pull Broughton's upcoming seniors out, so Enloe had only 160 juniors for its highest class out of a student body of 910 during its first year.[5][6] Enloe's first black students were Ben McCollum and Bernice Johnson.[7] George A. Kahdy was the school's first principal. He held the post for five years.[8]

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, taking the place of recently shuttered Hugh Morson Junior High.[9] Enloe became a senior high school with concentrated education for grades ten through twelve. In 1973 Enloe became the first fully integrated high school in Raleigh to hire a black principal.[10] Enloe absorbed the Aycock campus in 1979, becoming a modern high school focused on educating ninth through twelfth grade students. The Aycock building became the East Building, while the original Enloe complex became the West Building.[11]

In 1980, Enloe began providing magnet courses for "gifted and talented" students in Wake County. Around 300 students participated in the first two years of the program's existence.[4] The school was promoted to full magnet status in 1982. Until the mid-1990s, Enloe was the only magnet high school in the Wake system, leading to high concentration of academically talented students. The 1993 graduating class included 42 National Merit Semifinalists, a number that remains a state record.

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. Enloe IB students participated in exchanges with high schools in China (2004–2005)[12] and Germany, and started a relationship with students at a high school in Turkey through the use of video conferencing technology (2005–2006).[13]

Enloe was the first high school in the state of North Carolina to form a Gay-Straight Alliance.[14]

The new building under construction in 2006

In 2006, Enloe finished the construction of a new building adjacent to the West Campus and consequently closed the 50-year-old, outdated East Campus for renovation.[15] Almost all of the classes migrated from the East Campus to the new building, reducing the need to share classes with its larger capacity. The East Campus was reopened on January 22, 2008 at the start of the second semester. It included autotech classes, the new East Gym, student services, healthful living classrooms, and other classrooms. The next stage of Enloe's renovation was completed in January 2009, and involved the locker rooms in the West Gym being converted to house the audio-visual classrooms as well as the television studio.

Front entrance of West Campus

The Wake County School Board considered removing the International Baccalaureate and magnet status from Enloe in 2008, but this decision was overturned due to the intense lobbying of students and their parents.[16]

After much debate in 2015-2016, it was decided that Enloe would move from an eight period schedule to an A/B block schedule. Enloe was the last high school in the Wake County Public School System to switch to the block schedule, which all other public high schools in the county had been using since 2003.[17] The school adopted the new schedule for the 2016-2017 school year.

As of 2016, Enloe had 31 AP courses and 24 IB courses.[2]

Evangelist controversy

In February 2007, the school came under fire from Muslim advocacy groups and the American Civil Liberties Union after history teacher Robert Escamilla invited Kamil Solomon, a Coptic Christian evangelist and head of Kamil International Ministries, to speak about his experiences with Christianity and Muslims. The Council on American Islamic Relations and parents of Muslim and secular students accused the school of breaching federal civil rights laws and promoting hate in a public school.[18] Escamilla was suspended with pay for 90 days while the school district investigated the complaint. He was later transferred to an alternative school and reprimanded by Superintendent Del Burns. In addition, Burns apologized to Muslims for Solomon's visit. He subsequently issued new guidelines that require guest speakers to sign forms saying they will not denigrate any culture, race, gender, national origin or religion. Escamilla appealed the punishment, but the grievance was rejected by the school board.[19] In a controversial move, the school board voted to release part of Escamilla's confidential personnel file to justify its decision.[20] Escamilla filed a lawsuit asking to be transferred back to Enloe.[21] Escamilla and the school district reached a settlement in which Wake agreed not to punish him any further over the evangelist controversy.[22]

Security and crime

Following a gang fight involving 30 students in September 2008 school security was strengthened.[23] Police and school security was increased in December 2008 following the armed robbery of a student and the assault of another student while both were walking to school.[24]

Demographics

Enloe's new building

Student body

With students from various ethnic, cultural, social, and economic backgrounds, Enloe is one of the most diverse schools in Wake County,[25] something it is well known for.[26]

In the 2008-2009 school year, Enloe had approximately 2,640 enrolled students.[27] Of this population, 12% were 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 were composed of students with ancestries of White (42%), African (35%), and Hispanic (9%) descent.

At the beginning of the 2015-2016 school year, a cap was placed on Enloe's enrollment at 2,650 to prevent overcrowding.[25] As of 2016, Enloe had 2,610 enrolled students. Of those, 38% were African American/Black, 29% were Caucasian/White, 18% were Asian/Pacific Islander, 12% were Hispanic/Latino, 4% were multi-ethnic, and less than 1% were Native American.[2]

Graduation rate

Enloe's graduation rate is below the county average. In the 2014-2015 school year, 81.6% of Enloe students graduated in four years, compared to 86.1% of all Wake County high school students.[28]

Poverty

During the 2013-2014 school year, 32% of Enloe's students were eligible for free lunch and another 4% qualified for reduced-price lunch.[29] Enloe maintains a food pantry to serve economically disadvantaged students inside and outside of school.

As of November 2015, Enloe worked with about 75 families designated homeless as per the McKinney–Vento Homeless Assistance Act. Principal Scott Lyons petitioned Wake County Public School System's central office for the transfer of an additional social worker from a less disadvantaged school to help address the problem.[30]

Faculty and staff

There were 148 members of the Enloe teaching staff in 2006, and many support personnel were employed in administration, guidance and similar positions.[31] Twenty-five members were certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and 39% possessed an advanced degree (Masters or PhD) in their respective fields.[32]

During the 2015-2016 school year, Enloe employed 210 staff members, of whom 157 were classroom teachers. Twenty-four were certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, 78 had an advanced degree, and 19 had over 25 years of teaching experience.[25]

Science and technology

part of West Campus

In 2007, three Enloe students, Vivek Bhattacharya, Hao Lian, and Daniel Vitek, placed second nationally in the Siemens Competition for their work on a computer model of gene sequencing.[33]

In 2015, 17 year-old Enloe student Arjun Arora won 4th place in the Biomedical and Health division of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his work with Duke University on cancer research. He developed a new technique for looking at lab-created three-dimensional inflammatory breast spheroids that were subjected to various tests and trials.[34] Arora was then inducted into the National Gallery of Young Inventors.[35]

Enloe's computer science team ranked 5th internationally following the 2015-2016 American Computer Science League competitions.[25]

Through its video and audio production classes, Enloe High School has also gained multiple Emmys. This includes two awards and six nominations since 2012.[36]

Media and publications

Newspaper

The student newspaper, The Eagle's Eye, has been in circulation since the 1960s.[37] In 1998 senior Matt Williams, an editor on the paper, sold ad space to the North Carolina Lambda Youth Network, a self-described leadership development group for lesbian, gay, bisexual and straight young people. Principal Lloyd Gardner objected to the wording and potential political message that the ad could convey. Students argued that they should publish it on the basis of being allowed to run a Christian group's ad in a previous edition. The event attracted attention from local news outlets, such as The News & Observer.[38] The ad was ultimately censored by the Wake County Public School System, which asserted that the advertisement would threaten the district's official policy of neutrality regarding politically controversial topics.[14]

Magazine

Enloe's student literary magazine is Stone Soup.[39]

Television

Enloe also has its own control room and broadcast desk where students produce the school's live television news show, the 'Loe Down. It has won numerous National Academy Television Student Awards for the Nashville Midsouth Chapter,[40] most recently for a promotional video for a food drive.

Rankings and awards

In 2012, the school posted the sixth highest average SAT score in the Raleigh Durham area: 1692 with 77.1% of students taking the test.[41]

Until 2010, Enloe was ranked in the top 100 high schools in the U.S. according to Newsweek magazine's annual rankings:

Year Ranking
2010 127th
2009 83rd
2008 73rd
2007 56th[3]
2006 59th
2005 52nd
2003 44th

Enloe was recognized in 2014 as a School of Distinction by Magnet Schools of America.[42]

For the 2014-2015 school year, Enloe's graduating class received over $15.4 million in scholarships, the highest of any high school in the Wake County Public School System.[43][44]

In 2015, according to the U.S. News & World Report, Enloe was ranked 854th in the nation, 18th in North Carolina, and 112th in the nation for magnet schools.[45]

In 2016, according to the Washington Post, Enloe ranked seventh in the state and 280th nationally for most challenging high schools.[2][46]

Athletics department

Enloe Eagles
SchoolWilliam G. Enloe High School
ConferenceCAP-8 Conference
NCHSAADivision 4-AA
Athletic directorPatrick Paye
LocationRaleigh, NC
Varsity teams23 varsity teams
NicknameEagles
Fight songThe Victors
ColorsForest Green, Old Gold, and White
     
WebsiteEnloe Athletics Dept.
Enloe's track and practice field as seen from the East campus

Enloe's sports image was designed by the Broughton sophomores allotted to attend the school their junior year in 1962. During a meeting in Broughton's gymnasium, it was decided that the mascot would be an eagle, the colors would be the same as the Green Bay Packers', the football helmets would be all gold like the Fighting Irish, and the fight song would be University of Michigan's The Victors.[5]

Enloe's current sports teams are as follows:

  • Football
  • Cheerleading
  • Men's and women's basketball
  • Men's and women's lacrosse
  • Baseball
  • Softball
  • Men's and women's tennis
  • Men's and women's golf
  • Gymnastics
  • Men's and women's swimming & diving
  • Men's and women's track & field
  • Men's and women's cross country
  • Men's and women's soccer
  • Volleyball
  • Wrestling

The men's swimming & diving team won nine consecutive state championships from 1999 to 2007 and had additional wins in conference and regional championships.[47]

Enloe's historical rival is Needham B. Broughton High School.[37][48]

Notable alumni

Name Class year Notability Reference(s)
Ralph Campbell politician, first African-American to hold a statewide elected executive office in North Carolina
Bill Campbell Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia (1994–2002)
Randy Denton 1968 former basketball player for Duke, the ABA, and the NBA [49]
Charley Young 1969 former running back for the Dallas Cowboys
Willie Burden 1970 former football player for NCSU and the CFL Calgary Stampeders; member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame
Randy Jones 1970 singer, original cowboy from the musical group Village People
Wayne Burden 1974 former basketball player for Chico State and the Hobart Devils [50]
Danny Young 1980 former basketball player at Wake Forest and spent 10 years in the NBA
Nate McMillan 1982 head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers; former player for Chowan College, NCSU, and the Seattle SuperSonics
Chris Heagarty 1988 former Democratic member of the North Carolina House of Representatives from Wake County
LeVelle Moton 1992 head men's basketball coach at NC Central University, former All-American shooting guard at NC Central, former professional basketball player in Europe and Asia
Travis Cherry 1993 Grammy Nominated Music Producer
Anand Lal Shimpi 2000 founder and CEO of AnandTech
Chris Wilcox 2000 former basketball star at University of Maryland, College Park; currently playing for the Oklahoma City Thunder
P. J. Tucker 2003 former basketball star at University of Texas, Austin; currently playing for the Phoenix Suns
Michael Quattlebaum 2004 Rapper and performance artist known as Mykki Blanco
Adam Baker 2005 Singer/songwriter and guitarist of band Annuals
Rafiq Bhatia 2005 Composer and guitarist for band Son Lux
Charlie Houchin 2006 U.S. 2012 gold-medalist Olympic swimmer
Dakare Wilder rapper and member of the rap trio Troop 41.
Isadora Cerullo 2009 2016 Olympic Brazilian rugby player, 2015 Pan American bronze medalist [51][52]
Arlie Honeycutt 2010 75th Miss North Carolina [53]

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