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]