Enloe High School
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The William G. Enloe GT/IB Center for the Humanities, Sciences, and the Arts, more commonly called Enloe High School (EHS), is a Wake County
public magnet
, Gifted & Talented
, and International Baccalaureate high school
located in east Raleigh, North Carolina
. The school is named after William Gillmore Enloe
, the Mayor of Raleigh
, at the time the school was opened. Enloe follows Raleigh Charter High School
as the second best high school in North Carolina.
. The remainder of Enloe's student population is composed of students with ancestries of European (51%), African (35%), and Hispanic (2%) descent.
There are 148 members of the Enloe teaching staff, and many support personnel employed in administration, guidance and similar positions. Enloe prides itself on a skilled and accredited faculty, of which 25 members are nationally certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and 39% possess an advanced degree (Masters or Ph.D.
) in their respective fields.
, drafting, and graphic arts
.
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
.
They also have an award winning television program that wins numerous National Academy Television Student Awards for the Nashville Midsouth Chapter, most recently winning a NSTAE for a food drive promotion. Having one of the best video and audio production classes in Wake County, Enloe High School has also won many emmys. Enloe also has its own control room, and live broadcast desk where they produce their live television news show, Loe Down
Junior High. The original Enloe campus was opened in 1962 as the first integrated
secondary school in Raleigh for the education of students participating in grades seven through twelve.
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, and Enloe became a senior high school with concentrated education for grades ten through twelve. 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 Campus, while the original Enloe complex became the West Campus.
In 1980, Enloe began providing magnet courses
for "gifted and talented" students in Wake County
. The school was promoted to full magnet status in 1982. The "magnet" designation means that Enloe offers many courses that other Wake County schools do not, and provides services to its students that are not available to them at their "base" schools. At Enloe, like many magnet schools, the majority of the student body uses publicly provided transportation to shuttle them to school, though Enloe retains its own "base" population. 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. In the recent past, Enloe IB students have participated in exchanges with high schools in China (2004–2005) and Germany (2005–2006), and have begun a relationship with students at a high school in Turkey through the use of video conferencing technology.
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. Almost all the classes have migrated from the East Campus to the new building, reducing the need to share classes with its larger capacity. The East Campus has now been reopened as of January 22, 2008, the start of the second semester. It has the 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.
Enloe currently offers 28 AP courses in addition to several IB courses.
The Wake County School Board
considered removing the International Baccalaureate and magnet
status from Enloe, but this decision was overturned due to the intense lobbying of students and their parents.
Following a gang fight involving 30 students in September 2008 and the recent beating of a student on campus, the school's PTSA has warned students not walk alone on campus. Police and school security were beefed up in December 2008 following the armed robbery of a student and the assault of another student while both were walking to school.
On January 16, 2009 assistant principal Carrie Jacobs was mugged getting out of her car before school. She was struck by her attacker and her purse was stolen. She was not seriously injured.
Most recently, on May 22, 2009 three shots were fired into an empty car parked on a neighboring street. The shots were fired 30 minutes before school had begun; the school was never officially put on lockdown. No students were involved.
Since 2009, students at Enloe have been required to wear visible Identification badges around their necks at all times in an attempt to enforce campus security and the overall safety of the students and staff members. Students are not allowed in the building without these badges, and if a student doesn't have their ID they will be sentenced to detention. If a student has lost or forgotten their student ID at home they can either call a parent or purchase a new one for a charge of $10. The ID's currently have the student's lunch period and a barcode on the back.
magazine's annual rankings:
, track & field
, volleyball
, swimming
& diving
, and gymnastics
teams, who have all won many conference and state championships.http://enloehs.wcpss.net/sports/
Enloe's sports teams include:
advocacy groups and the ACLU after history teacher Robert Escamilla invited Kamil Solomon, a Copt
ic 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.
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. And he 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. In a controversial move, the school board voted to release part of Escamilla's confidential personnel file to justify its decision. Escamilla has filed a lawsuit asking to be transferred back to Enloe. Escamilla and the school district reached a settlement in which Wake agreed not to punish him any further over the evangelist controversy.
Wake County Public School System
The Wake County Public School System is a public school district located in Wake County, North Carolina. With 143,289 students enrolled in 163 schools as of the 2010/11 academic year, it is the largest public school district in North Carolina and the 17th largest district in the United States.-...
public magnet
Magnet school
In education in the United States, magnet schools are public schools with specialized courses or curricula. "Magnet" refers to how the schools draw students from across the normal boundaries defined by authorities as school zones that feed into certain schools.There are magnet schools at the...
, Gifted & Talented
Gifted education
Gifted education is a broad term for special practices, procedures and theories used in the education of children who have been identified as gifted or talented...
, and International Baccalaureate high school
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
located in east Raleigh, North Carolina
Raleigh, North Carolina
Raleigh is the capital and the second largest city in the state of North Carolina as well as the seat of Wake County. Raleigh is known as the "City of Oaks" for its many oak trees. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city's 2010 population was 403,892, over an area of , making Raleigh...
. The school is named after William Gillmore Enloe
William G. Enloe
William Gillmore Enloe was the Mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina from 1957-1963. Enloe was a member of the Democratic Party. William G. Enloe High School, the first integrated public high school in Raleigh, was named after him. He was mayor when the school opened in 1962.As mayor, Enloe dealt with...
, the Mayor of Raleigh
Mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina
The mayor of Raleigh is the mayor of Raleigh, the state capital of North Carolina, in the United States. Raleigh operates with council-manager government, under which the mayor is elected separately from Raleigh City Council, of which he is the eighth member....
, at the time the school was opened. Enloe follows Raleigh Charter High School
Raleigh Charter High School
Raleigh Charter High School is a free, independent public school chartered by the North Carolina State Board of Education.-History:In the summer of 1998, some parents of 8th graders at The Magellan Charter School decided to establish a new charter high school so that their students could continue...
as the second best high school in North Carolina.
Demographics
Enloe has approximately 2,640 (according to the 2008-2009 Quotannis Yearbook, Enloe has 2,648) enrolled students. Of this population, 12% are of Asian descent — the largest population of students with Asian ancestries found in any school in Wake CountyWake County, North Carolina
Wake County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 900,993 making it North Carolina's second most populated county...
. The remainder of Enloe's student population is composed of students with ancestries of European (51%), African (35%), and Hispanic (2%) descent.
There are 148 members of the Enloe teaching staff, and many support personnel employed in administration, guidance and similar positions. Enloe prides itself on a skilled and accredited faculty, of which 25 members are nationally certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and 39% possess an advanced degree (Masters or Ph.D.
Ph.D.
A Ph.D. is a Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree.Ph.D. may also refer to:* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group*Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip*PhD: Phantasy Degree, a Korean comic series* PhD Docbook renderer, an XML renderer...
) in their respective fields.
Technology
At Enloe, 100% of instructional classrooms have reliable connections to Internet resources. In addition to full-campus technological connectivity, Enloe provides nearly one computer console terminal for every two students, compared with the state average of more than three students per terminal. Made possible through various private, corporate, local, state, and federal grants, Enloe's facilities provide three open-access computer labs for use by students and classes, several "mobile labs" consisting of two dozen laptops, and an additional half-dozen labs devoted to specific courses and subject are as. Specialized computer labs are provided for classes taught in several subject areas, including computer scienceComputer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
, drafting, and graphic arts
Graphic arts
A type of fine art, graphic art covers a broad range of art forms. Graphic art is typically two-dimensional and includes calligraphy, photography, drawing, painting, printmaking, lithography, typography, serigraphy , and bindery. Graphic art also consists of drawn plans and layouts for interior...
.
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
Gene sequencing
Gene Sequencing may refer to:* DNA sequencing* or a comprehensive variant of it: Full genome sequencing...
.
They also have an award winning television program that wins numerous National Academy Television Student Awards for the Nashville Midsouth Chapter, most recently winning a NSTAE for a food drive promotion. Having one of the best video and audio production classes in Wake County, Enloe High School has also won many emmys. Enloe also has its own control room, and live broadcast desk where they produce their live television news show, Loe Down
History
Enloe High School was originally organized as two different schools that shared athletic facilities between adjacent campuses — William G. Enloe Senior High and Charles B. AycockCharles Brantley Aycock
Charles Brantley Aycock was the 50th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1901 to 1905. During his tenure as governor, he was an advocate for the improvement of the state's public school systems, and following his term in office, he traveled the country promoting educational...
Junior High. The original Enloe campus was opened in 1962 as the first integrated
Desegregation
Desegregation is the process of ending the separation of two groups usually referring to races. This is most commonly used in reference to the United States. Desegregation was long a focus of the American Civil Rights Movement, both before and after the United States Supreme Court's decision in...
secondary school in Raleigh for the education of students participating in grades seven through twelve.
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, and Enloe became a senior high school with concentrated education for grades ten through twelve. Enloe absorbed the Aycock campus in 1979, becoming a modern high school
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
focused on educating ninth through twelfth grade students. The Aycock building became the East Campus, while the original Enloe complex became the West Campus.
In 1980, Enloe began providing magnet courses
Magnet school
In education in the United States, magnet schools are public schools with specialized courses or curricula. "Magnet" refers to how the schools draw students from across the normal boundaries defined by authorities as school zones that feed into certain schools.There are magnet schools at the...
for "gifted and talented" students in Wake County
Wake County, North Carolina
Wake County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 900,993 making it North Carolina's second most populated county...
. The school was promoted to full magnet status in 1982. The "magnet" designation means that Enloe offers many courses that other Wake County schools do not, and provides services to its students that are not available to them at their "base" schools. At Enloe, like many magnet schools, the majority of the student body uses publicly provided transportation to shuttle them to school, though Enloe retains its own "base" population. 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. In the recent past, Enloe IB students have participated in exchanges with high schools in China (2004–2005) and Germany (2005–2006), and have begun a relationship with students at a high school in Turkey through the use of video conferencing technology.
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. Almost all the classes have migrated from the East Campus to the new building, reducing the need to share classes with its larger capacity. The East Campus has now been reopened as of January 22, 2008, the start of the second semester. It has the 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.
Enloe currently offers 28 AP courses in addition to several IB courses.
The Wake County School Board
Wake County Public School System
The Wake County Public School System is a public school district located in Wake County, North Carolina. With 143,289 students enrolled in 163 schools as of the 2010/11 academic year, it is the largest public school district in North Carolina and the 17th largest district in the United States.-...
considered removing the International Baccalaureate and magnet
Magnet school
In education in the United States, magnet schools are public schools with specialized courses or curricula. "Magnet" refers to how the schools draw students from across the normal boundaries defined by authorities as school zones that feed into certain schools.There are magnet schools at the...
status from Enloe, but this decision was overturned due to the intense lobbying of students and their parents.
Following a gang fight involving 30 students in September 2008 and the recent beating of a student on campus, the school's PTSA has warned students not walk alone on campus. Police and school security were beefed up in December 2008 following the armed robbery of a student and the assault of another student while both were walking to school.
On January 16, 2009 assistant principal Carrie Jacobs was mugged getting out of her car before school. She was struck by her attacker and her purse was stolen. She was not seriously injured.
Most recently, on May 22, 2009 three shots were fired into an empty car parked on a neighboring street. The shots were fired 30 minutes before school had begun; the school was never officially put on lockdown. No students were involved.
Since 2009, students at Enloe have been required to wear visible Identification badges around their necks at all times in an attempt to enforce campus security and the overall safety of the students and staff members. Students are not allowed in the building without these badges, and if a student doesn't have their ID they will be sentenced to detention. If a student has lost or forgotten their student ID at home they can either call a parent or purchase a new one for a charge of $10. The ID's currently have the student's lunch period and a barcode on the back.
Ranking in Newsweeks' Top School List
Up until 2010, Enloe has consistently ranked within the top 100 high schools in the U.S. according to NewsweekNewsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...
magazine's annual rankings:
| Year | Ranking |
|---|---|
| 2010 | 127th |
| 2009 | 83rd |
| 2008 | 73rd |
| 2007 | 56th |
| 2006 | 59th |
| 2005 | 52nd |
| 2003 | 44th |
Sports department
Enloe High School has many sports teams, and is very well known for its cross countryCross 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...
, track & field
Track and field
Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...
, 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...
, swimming
Swimming (sport)
Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
& diving
Diving
Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one...
, and gymnastics
Gymnastics
Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...
teams, who have all won many conference and state championships.http://enloehs.wcpss.net/sports/
Enloe's sports teams include:
- FootballAmerican footballAmerican football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
- CheerleadingCheerleadingCheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate...
- Men's and women's basketballBasketballBasketball 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...
- Men's and women's lacrosseLacrosseLacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...
- baseballBaseballBaseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
- softballSoftballSoftball 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...
- Men's and women's tennisTennisTennis 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...
- Men's and women's golfGolfGolf 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....
- GymnasticsGymnasticsGymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...
- Men's and women's swimmingSwimming (sport)Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
& divingDivingDiving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one... - Men's and women's track and fieldTrack and fieldTrack and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...
- Men's and women's cross countryCross country runningCross 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...
- Men's and women's soccer
- VolleyballVolleyballVolleyball 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...
- WrestlingWrestlingWrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...
Evangelist controversy
In February 2007, the school came under fire from MuslimMuslim
A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable...
advocacy groups and the ACLU after history teacher Robert Escamilla invited Kamil Solomon, a Copt
Copt
The Copts are the native Egyptian Christians , a major ethnoreligious group in Egypt....
ic 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.
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. And he 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. In a controversial move, the school board voted to release part of Escamilla's confidential personnel file to justify its decision. Escamilla has filed a lawsuit asking to be transferred back to Enloe. Escamilla and the school district reached a settlement in which Wake agreed not to punish him any further over the evangelist controversy.