Escambia High School - Pensacola, Florida/FL

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Escambia High School

1310 N 65th Avenue, Pensacola, FL, 32506-3908 -

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Definition of Terms

Escambia High School

School Level

High school

Grades Offered

Grades 9 - 12

County

Escambia County, FL

Students & Faculty

Total Students

1747 students

% Male / % Female

50% / 50%

Total Classroom Teachers

102 teachers

Students by Grade

Pre-K - 3 students

Grade 9 - 655 students

Grade 10 - 443 students

Grade 11 - 342 students

Grade 12 - 304 students

This School

(FL) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:17

1:19

Students by Ethnicity

This School

(FL) School Average

% American Indian	1%	n/a
% Asian	6%	2%
% Hispanic	4%	18%
% Black	29%	26%
% White	61%	52%

Additional Student Information

This School

(FL) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

39%

26%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

14%

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

(FL) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

Escambia County School District

This School's Agency

(FL) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	79	24
Number of Students Managed	44,072 students	15,852 students
District Total Revenue	$357,806,000	$150,286,000
District Expenditure	$362,107,000	$148,035,000
District Revenue / Student	$8,119	$9,481
District Expenditure / Student	$8,216	$9,339
District Graduation Rates	87%	90%

Area career acadamies (Pensacola News Journal)
posted on October 18, 2009 at 06:11:07 am
Career academies at Escambia and Santa Rosa schools.
Pine Forest ROTC wins top unit rank (Pensacola News Journal)
posted on October 6, 2009 at 01:40:26 pm
Web Line Pine Forest ROTC places first in Gator Games
Despite loss of Coffee, Tide is still in the running (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
posted on August 25, 2009 at 04:08:44 am
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. Alabama linebacker Dont’a Hightower has an unconventional strategy for stopping runner Mark Ingram from plowing ahead in practice. It’s not hit him low. Or even hit him hard. “What I do is I jump on his back,“ said Hightower, a 255-pound linebacker. “I can’t bend my knees enough to get low enough to hit him, but he’s too strong to try to just bulldoze over. I just try to jump on ...
Alabama has plenty of options to replace Coffee (The Tennessean)
posted on August 22, 2009 at 05:46:55 pm
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - Alabama linebacker Dont'a Hightower has an unconventional strategy for stopping runner Mark Ingram from plowing ahead in practice.
450 years of Pensacola history (Pensacola News Journal)
posted on August 10, 2009 at 03:40:20 am
This year, Pensacola honors its 450th anniversary.

View all past news stories

Escambia High School is a high school located in Escambia County, Florida.
Malcolm Thomas is the current Superintendent of Schools for the Escambia County School District
History
Escambia High School opened for the 1958–59 school year, and its first graduating class in 1959 was composed of 207�students. A large number of the first EHS students came from Pensacola High School.
Mascot riots
The Escambia High School riots were racially motivated nonviolent and violent demonstrations which occurred in varying forms between 1972 and 1977 at the then-newly desegregated Escambia High School. The centerpiece riot, which received the most publicity and was the most violent demonstration, occurred on February 5, 1976.
Formerly an all-white school, Escambia High School was forcibly desegregated in 1969. In the fall of 1972, black students rioted at a home football game for their team, whose mascot was a "Rebel," modeled in appearance after the Colonel Reb of the University of Mississippi. The school band played the official school song, "Dixie," and it was from there that the violence ensued. Continuing until the end of the 1972–73 academic year, blacks and other students protested the mascot, school song and use of the Confederate Flag, which was flown at school events and games, on the grounds that the imagery the items brought up were insensitive to black people. On July 24, 1973, a United States District Court ruling deemed all of the aforementioned symbols as "racially irritating" and barred their use at the school level (Augustus v. School Board of Escambia County, 361 F. Supp. 383, 1973). At the beginning of the next school year, the name "Raiders" was picked to be the new name for all of Escambia High's athletic teams. Throughout 1974, the Escambia County School District appealed the decision, and on January 25, 1975, the United States Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the school board, overturning the injunction and decreeing that the school board should be in charge of the matter (Augustus v. School Board of Escambia County, 507 F.2d 152, 1975). After all the retaliatory violence both at the school and in the community, the Florida National Guard was called in to patrol the school until the end of the year. In the fall of 1976, students chose the name "Gators" after a second ballot was deemed necessary. On July 26, 1977, the Ku Klux Klan held a rally on the school grounds with regards to the issue, which necessitated a reorganization of the school board. The name "Gators" has been used for Escambia High's athletic teams since, without incident.
Alumni
External links
Official website

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