Eastern High School (Washington, D.C.)

Eastern High School is a public high school in Washington, D.C. As of the 2021–2022 school year, it educates 735 students in grades 9 through 12. The school is located in the Kingman Park neighborhood, at the intersection of 17th Street and East Capital Street Northeast. Eastern was a part of the District of Columbia Public Schools restructuring project, reopening in 2011 to incoming first-year students and growing by a grade level each year. It graduated its first class in 2015. In addition, Eastern was designated an International Baccalaureate school in 2013 and awarded its first IB diploma in 2015.[4]

Eastern High School
Eastern High School in 2011
Address
1700 East Capitol Street NE

Ward 7

Washington
,
D.C.
20003

United States
Coordinates38°53′26″N 76°58′49″W
Information
Former nameCapitol Hill High School
School typePublic high school
MottoThe Pride of Capitol Hill
Established1890 (1890)
StatusOpen[1]
School boardDistrict of Columbia State Board of Education
School districtDistrict of Columbia Public Schools
NCES District ID1100030[2]
School codeDC-001-457[1]
CEEB code090060
NCES School ID110003000078[1]
PrincipalSteven Miller
Faculty56.00 (on an FTE basis)[1]
Grades9 to 12
Enrollment735[1] (2020–2021)
 • Grade 9274
 • Grade 10199
 • Grade 11152
 • Grade 12110
Student to teacher ratio13.12[1]
Color(s)Blue and white
  
TeamsRamblers
USNWR ranking11,029[3]
InformationMetro Stop: Stadium Armory
Websitewww.easternhighschooldcps.org

Eastern is part of the District of Columbia Public Schools. It was founded in 1890 as the Capitol Hill High School and was later relocated and rebuilt in the collegiate gothic style and renamed Eastern Senior High School.[5] It is one of the oldest continuously operating high schools in the District of Columbia.[6] The school building was added to the District Of Columbia Inventory Of Historic Sites on August 3, 2023[7]

History

Established in 1890 as the Capitol Hill High School, the school was first housed in what is now known as the Peabody Elementary School at 5th and C Streets N.E.. In its first year, the school had an enrollment of 170 students, a staff of seven teachers, and a principal. In the second year, the school's enrollment increased to 260 students, and four additional teachers were added.[8]

In 1892, the school moved to a new location at 7th and C Streets S.E. and was renamed Eastern High School. Enrollment continued to increase, and in 1909 citizens organizations in the city's eastern section began to lobby for a new school building. The land where the current school now stands was selected between 1914 and 1915, but World War I delayed construction.

The old Eastern High School at 7th and C Streets S.E.

Snowden Ashford, a municipal architect, was selected to design the new school.[9] The Eastern Alumni Association urged Ashford to design the new school in a style quite different from the Elizabethan and Collegiate Gothic style that was his preference. The association lobbied for the more popular Colonial Revival style, but his view prevailed. His designs for the school were prepared in 1921, and shortly after, he resigned from his position as Municipal Architect.[10]

The new Eastern High School building, at 17th and East Capitol Streets N.E., was built in 1923 by Charles H. Tompkins Company Incorporated. A memorial flagstaff was dedicated, in front of the building, to alumni who died during the Spanish-American War and World War I. When the school moved into its new building, its student enrollment increased to over 1,000. The old Eastern High School building at 7th and C Streets S.E. was demolished to make way for Hine Jr. High School.[11]

Admissions

Demographics
Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity 2020–2021[1]
BlackHispanicWhiteTwo or More RacesAsian
70121552

Attendance Boundaries

In 2021, DC's redistricting of Wards moved Eastern from Ward 6 to Ward 7; however, the school's boundaries and feeder patterns have remained the same. Neighborhoods within Eastern's boundaries include Barney Circle, Capitol Hill, Carver Langston, Hill East, Kingman Park, Navy Yard, and Southwest Waterfront.[12][13]

Feeder patterns

The following elementary schools feed into Eastern:[14]

  • Amidon-Bowen
  • Brent
  • J.O. Wilson
  • Ludlow-Taylor
  • Maury
  • Miner
  • Payne
  • Peabody (Capitol Hill Cluster School)
  • Thompson
  • Tyler
  • Van Ness
  • Watkins (Capitol Hill Cluster School)

The following middle schools feed into Eastern:[14]

  • Eliot-Hine
  • Jefferson
  • Stuart-Hobson (Capitol Hill Cluster School)

The following K-8 schools feed into Eastern:[14]

  • Browne Education Campus
  • Capitol Hill Montessori

Athletics
  • Football
  • Basketball
  • Track
  • Volleyball
  • Soccer
  • Baseball
  • Softball

Notable alumni

Academia

Arts and entertainment

Government and politics

Media and journalism

Military

Sports

Notable faculty

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