Eastern Montgomery High School is located in Elliston, Virginia

Elliston, Virginia

Elliston is a census-designated place between the cities of Roanoke and Christiansburg in Montgomery County, southwest Virginia. The population as of the 2010 Census was 902. It is home to a small fire department, an elementary school, two gas stations, a train stop, and several churches. Most of...

 and is one of four high school

High school

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s in Montgomery County, Virginia

Montgomery County, Virginia

As of the census of 2000, there were 83,629 people, 30,997 households, and 17,203 families residing in the county. The population density was 215 people per square mile . There were 32,527 housing units at an average density of 84 per square mile...

. It was built during 1999 and 2000, and, being a relatively new school, it is only in its tenth school year. The school's mascot is the Mustang, and the school colors are black, white and maroon.

Extracurricular activities

Eastern Montgomery has teams in Baseball

Baseball

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, Basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

, Cross Country

Cross country running

Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...

, Football

American football

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, Golf

Golf

Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

, Softball

Softball

Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...

, Tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

, Track

Track and field

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, and Volleyball

Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

. Eastern Montgomery also competes in many academic events, including Debate

Debate

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, MACC, Scholastic Bowl and Forensics. Eastern Montgomery has many awards in academic activities including a 2004 state championship in Scholastic Bowl. Eastern Montgomery also has many other achievements in the more mainstream sports. Tracy Poff is the athletics director at Eastern Montgomery.

Academics

Eastern Montgomery has received awards for its academics, being accredited annually for both the Standards of Learning

Standards of Learning

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 and No Child Left Behind requirements. The school has many elective choices beyond the core classes, being particularly strong in the Foreign Language and Fine Arts departments. Both Spanish and French are offered, with Art, Chorus and Band classes in the art department. Further, there are also Computer Technology courses, many of which are college credit courses.

History

The school is considered a moving of Shawsville High School, which was originally a joined school with Shawsville Middle School. In the late nineties, a growth in the area's population caused demand for a new and larger school to house all the students. Eastern Montgomery was built soon after, with all the remaining Shawsville High students being moved to it at the start of the next year. Shawsville Middle remained in the old building, with the second building being shut down and used for storage.

Administrative Staff

The school's administrative staff consists of:
Principal: Mr. Danny Knott
Asst. Principal: Mr. Brian Kitts
Athletic Director: Mr. Tracy Poff

External links

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