East Chapel Hill High School | |
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Address | |
500 Weaver Dairy Road 27514 United States | |
Coordinates | 35°57′39″N 79°01′45″W / 35.9607°N 79.0292°W |
Information | |
Type | Public |
Motto | "Loved, Respected & Connected" |
Established | August 20, 1996 |
School district | Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools |
CEEB code | 340646 |
Principal | Jesse Casey[1] |
Faculty | 86.53 (FTE)[2] |
Grades | 9–12 |
Gender | Co-educational |
Enrollment | 1,475 (2023–24)[2] |
Student to teacher ratio | 17.28[2] |
Color(s) | Black, silver, and Carolina Blue |
Mascot | Wildcat |
Rival | Chapel Hill High School |
Accreditation | Southern Association of Colleges and Schools |
National ranking | 88th (Newsweek)[3] |
Newspaper | ECHO |
Yearbook | Eurus |
Website | www |
All data from school website/handbook.[4] |
East Chapel Hill High School is a public high school in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It is the second high school of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools district, which also contains Chapel Hill High School and Carrboro High School. The total enrollment in the 2013–2014 school year was 1,409 with 48% minority students.[5]
Although East previously ranked within the top 100 of American public high schools on U.S. News, reaching as high as #23, it has not appeared on the list since the 2009–2010 school year due to being disqualified by achievement gaps.[6] In 2012, it ranked #88 in Newsweek's "America's Best High Schools 2012."[7]