East High School | |
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Type | Public secondary school |
Established | 1964[1] |
Closed | 1982[1] |
Grades | 9–12 |
Enrollment | 1,251 (1982)[2] |
Mascot | Longhorns[2] |
East High School was a high school in Phoenix, Arizona, and was part of the Phoenix Union High School District.
The school was designed by the noted local architecture firm of Weaver & Drover.[3]
Enrollment peaked in 1975, when 2,561 students attended the school.[2]
Phoenix Union High School District board members voted to close the school in November 1981, due to declining enrollments that has caused financial problems for the district.[4] Parents then filed a lawsuit in an effort to keep the school open.[4]
At the time of the school's closure, the school was noted by an article in The Arizona Republic to have an almost evenly divided enrollment of African Americans, "Hispanics",[5] and White Americans.[4]
The school's basketball program was considered to be a giant among the state's boys' basketball teams from 1969 to 1982, winning five big-schools state championships, one runner-up, two semifinals and five quarterfinals teams, under coach Royce Youree.[6]
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