William G. Enloe High School
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128 Clarendon Crescent Raleigh, North Carolina United States |
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| School type | Public (Magnet, IB, GT) Secondary |
| Founded | 1962 |
| Principal | Will Chavis |
| Staff | 210 |
| Enrollment | 2,610 |
| Education system | Wake County Public School System |
| Mascot | Edgar the Eagle |
| Rival | Needham B. Broughton High School |
| Newspaper | The Eagle's Eye |
| Yearbook | Quotannis |
| Website | www.wcpss.net/enloehs |
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| School | William G. Enloe High School |
| Conference | CAP-8 Conference |
| NCHSAA | Division 4-AA |
| Athletic director | Patrick Paye |
| Location | Raleigh, NC |
| Varsity teams | 23 varsity teams |
| Nickname | Eagles |
| Fight song | The Victors |
| Colors | Forest Green, Old Gold, and White |
| Website | Enloe Athletics Dept |
William G. Enloe GT/IB Center for the Humanities, Sciences, and the Arts, also called Enloe Magnet High School and Enloe High School, is a public magnet high school offering Gifted & Talented and International Baccalaureate programs located in eastern Raleigh, North Carolina. It is operated under the Wake County Public School System. The school is named after William Gilmore Enloe, the Mayor of Raleigh at the time the school was opened. It was the first integrated public high school in the city of Raleigh.
William G. Enloe High School was originally organized as two different schools that shared athletic facilities between adjacent campuses – William G. Enloe Senior High School (named after Raleigh Mayor William G. Enloe) and Charles B. Aycock Junior High. The original Enloe campus was opened in 1962 as the first integrated secondary school in Raleigh for the education of students participating in grades seven through twelve and served as the secondary educational institution for the Longview Gardens community. Enloe's mixed population was drawn from the white student body at Needham B. Broughton High School and the black one at John W. Ligon High School. It was deemed undesirable to pull Broughton's upcoming seniors out, so Enloe had only 160 juniors for its highest class out of a student body of 910 during its first year. Enloe's first black students were Ben McCollum and Bernice Johnson. George A. Kahdy was the school's first principal. He held the post for five years.
Three years after Enloe opened, Aycock was created on an adjacent campus as a junior high school to educate students in the seventh through ninth grades, taking the place of recently shuttered Hugh Morson Junior High. Enloe became a senior high school with concentrated education for grades ten through twelve. In 1973, Enloe became the first fully integrated high school in Raleigh to hire a black principal. Enloe absorbed the Aycock campus in 1979, becoming a modern high school focused on educating ninth through twelfth grade students. The Aycock building became the East Building, while the original Enloe complex became the West Building.
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