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| School Level |
High school |
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| Grades Offered |
Grades 9 - 12 |
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| County |
Suffolk County, MA |
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| Total Students |
1314 students |
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| % Male / % Female |
51% /
49% |
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| Total Classroom Teachers |
96 teachers |
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| Students by Grade |
| Grade 9 - 390 students | | Grade 10 - 288 students | | Grade 11 - 286 students | | Grade 12 - 350 students |
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| Teacher : Student Ratio |
1:14 |
1:14 |
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| Students by Ethnicity |
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| % American Indian |
n/a |
n/a |
| % Asian |
2% |
3% |
| % Hispanic |
50% |
11% |
| % Black |
44% |
11% |
| % White |
5% |
73% |
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| Additional Student Information |
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| % Eligible for Free Lunch |
66% |
20% |
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| % Eligible for Reduced Lunch |
5% |
4% |
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| % Migrant Students Enrolled |
n/a |
n/a |
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| School District Name |
Boston School District |
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| Number of Schools Managed |
139 |
5 |
| Number of Students Managed |
62,687 students |
2,427 students |
| District Total Revenue |
$1,090,975,000 |
$31,707,000 |
| District Expenditure |
$1,039,801,000 |
$31,191,000 |
| District Revenue / Student |
$17,404 |
$13,064 |
| District Expenditure / Student |
$16,587 |
$12,852 |
| District Graduation Rates |
n/a |
n/a |
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- The English High School of Boston, Massachusetts is a high school that was founded in 1821. Originally called The English Classical School, it was renamed The English High School upon its first relocation in 1824. . The current building is located in Jamaica Plain.
- History
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The school is currently located in the Jamaica Plain area of Boston, its seventh location in the city. Its first location, located on Derne Street at the rear of the Massachusetts State House, is marked by a metal plaque. Its second location (still standing), on the corner of Pickney and Anderson Streets, eventually became the Phillips School, a school for then free born and emancipated African Americans before the American Civil War. From 1844 to 1922, Boston English was a next door neighbor of the Boston Latin School, first near downtown Boston and then in a building on Warren Street (now demolished) in the South End. From 1954 to 1989, it was located across the street from Boston Latin at 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, the location is now part of the Harvard Medical School. Like Boston Latin, English only admitted boys for the first 151 years of its history and did not become coeducational until 1972.
- The current motto of the school is "College For All"
- Curriculum
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English High was created originally to educate working class schoolboys in preparation for business, mechanics, and engineering trades as opposed to "latin-grammar" schools like Boston Latin that prepared schoolboys for the college, ministry and scholarly pursuits, and private academies that were open only to affluent residents. Its originally curriculum consisted of such courses as English, surveying, navigation, geography, logic, and civics as well as a strong emphasis on mathematics. .
- Nowadays, English High has opened up its curriculum to include more liberal arts subjects such as foreign languages and writing as well as performing arts and more college preparatory courses. It is currently in the second year of an experimental "Commonwealth Pilot School" status, which is geared toward improving the curriculum of urban schools. For a while, the school had an award winning mock trial team as well.
- AVID
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This is one of the few schools that offer AVID.
- Extracurricular Activities
- Athletics
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Each Thanksgiving since 1887, English has played Boston Latin School in football in the oldest continuing high school rivalry in the United States. It is also the fourth longest U.S. high school rivalry of all time.In 1993 football season, the football team made history. The '93 football team was the first team in school history to ever qualify for the Massachusetts State Championship. The Bulldogs (or Blue & Blue) defeated the Nantucket Whalers by the score of 16-7 to claim its school's first state championship. The '97 football team was the first team to go undefeated with a 12-0 record and English's second football state championship. Since 2005 the baseball team has started by a winning record of 18-0 and defeating their rivals the Brighton Bengals, and since then the baseball team has never let up and has won 2 city championships. English High also has competitive basketball, softball, volleyball, and track teams. Up until the 1980's, the school had a boys' hockey team, a golf team, and swimming teams for both boys and girls.
- Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps
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This school offers a JROTC program. The program is led by Lieutenant Colonel Jones and First Sergeant Alford. The students participate in drill performances and parades. The most up to date parade is the Veterans Day Parade. This program is funded by the US Army.
- Notable alumni
- J. P. Morgan - financier
- Louis Sullivan - architect
- Samuel Pierpont Langley - onetime director of the Smithsonian Institution
- Matthew Ridgway - major-general
- Leonard Nimoy - actor
- Louis Farrakhan
- Percy Jewett Burrell - dramatist and playwright
- William H.C. Whiting - Confederate general
- Allan Crite - artist
- Herb Chambers
- A. Nicholas Vardac - Film Producer
- Paul X. Kelley - Commander of US Marine Corps, 1983-1987
- Demographics
- 32% Black
- 63% Hispanic
- 4.8% White
- 0.2% Asian
- External links
- www.englishhs.org
- Massachusetts Department of Education Web page on The English High School
- Source: Wikipedia; it is used under the GNU Free Documentation License. You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.
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| About This Zip Code (02130) |
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| Population (Approximate) |
36,293 people |
6,259,314 people |
| % (age 25+) w/College Degree |
51% |
40% |
| Population Average Age |
34 years old
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36 years old |
| Average Household size |
2.3 persons
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2.5 persons |
| Median Household Income |
$46,592
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$49,959 |
| Avg. # of Rooms in Household |
4.9 rooms |
5.4 rooms |
| Median Age of Housing Structure |
70 years old |
55 years old |
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| % Owning / % Renting |
40% / 60% |
58% / 42% |
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