East St. Louis Senior High School

East St. Louis Senior High School
Address
4901 State Street East St. Louis, Illinois 62205 United States
Coordinates	38°36′31″N 90°06′12″W / 38.60861°N 90.10333°W / 38.60861; -90.10333Coordinates: 38°36′31″N 90°06′12″W / 38.60861°N 90.10333°W / 38.60861; -90.10333
Information
Type	Public
School district	East Saint Louis Public Schools
Principal	Marcus Wright
Faculty	58.09 (on FTE basis)
Grades	9 to 12
Enrollment	1,438 (2012-2013)
Student to teacher ratio	24.75
Color(s)	Orange and Blue
Mascot	Flyer
^[1]

East Saint Louis Senior High School is the only high school located in East Saint Louis, Illinois. The school serves about 1,438 students in grades 9 to 12 in the East Saint Louis Public Schools district.^[1] It was featured in the Jonathan Kozol book Savage Inequalities. In 1998, East St. Louis Lincoln High School consolidated with East St. Louis High.^[2]

Sports

East St. Louis Senior High School won the 2008 Class 7A football state championship against Geneva High School.^[3] The Flyers have a storied history in Illinois high school football, having won the state championship over a half-dozen times and the national championship twice. From 1976 to the beginning of the 1995 season, the Flyers' coach was Bob Shannon. Two years of Flyers football during that period were the subject of a book, The Right Kind of Heroes.

The Flyers compete in the Southwestern Conference.

Notable alumni

Miles Davis, class of 1944, jazz musician.
Hank Bauer, Former MLB player. (New York Yankees, Kansas City Athletics) and manager (Kansas City Athletics, Baltimore Orioles)
Ed Blake, Former MLB player. (Cincinnati Reds, Kansas City Athletics)
Homer Bush, Former MLB player. (New York Yankees, Toronto Blue Jays, Florida Marlins)
Bryan Cox, Former NFL player. (Miami Dolphins, Chicago Bears)
Kerry Glenn, Former NFL football player. (New York Jets, Miami Dolphins)
Dawn Harper, Olympic runner.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee, graduated 1980, from Lincoln Sr. High School three time Olympic gold medalist in track and field.
Bennie Lewis, professional basketball player
Jean Madeira, opera mezzo-soprano.
Darius Miles, NBA basketball player.^[4]
Victor Scott, Former NFL football player (Dallas Cowboys).
Dan Thomas, Milwaukee Brewers baseball player 1976 – 1977.
Bob Turley, Former MLB player (St. Louis Browns, Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees, Los Angeles Angels, Boston Red Sox).
Bill Walker, Former MLB player (New York Giants, St. Louis Browns).
Johnny Wyrostek, East St. Louis High grad, star player for the Cincinnati Reds.
Dana Howard, East St. Louis high grad, star linebacker for U. of Illinois, former NFL player.
Marion Lee Wilde, class of 1939, one of the Wilde Twins. Movie actress 1942-1949.
Mary Lynn Wilde, class of 1939, one of the Wilde Twins. Movie actress 1942-1953.
Kellen Winslow, graduated 1975, NFL Hall of Fame tight end (San Diego Chargers).

References

1 2 "East St Louis Senior High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved on 29 August 2015.
↑ "East St. Louis Lincoln". illinoishsglorydays.com. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
↑ "Geneva falls short of first championship bid.". Daily Herald. Nov 29, 2008. Retrieved 2010-06-09.
↑ "East St. Louis' Miles faces fantastic future.". Daily Herald. HighBeam. March 18, 2000. Retrieved 2008-12-18.

External links

East St. Louis Sr. High School page at East St. Louis Public Schools

High schools in Greater St. Louis

Missouri public high schools	Affton Bayless Beaumont Brentwood Central VPA Clayton Cleveland Eureka Farmington Fern Ridge Fort Zumwalt East Fort Zumwalt North Fort Zumwalt South Fort Zumwalt West Fox Francis Howell Francis Howell Central Francis Howell North Gateway Hazelwood Central Hazelwood East Hazelwood West Holt Kirkwood Ladue Lafayette Lindbergh Maplewood Richmond Heights Marquette McCluer McCluer North McCluer South-Berkeley McKinley Mehlville Metro Normandy North County (Bonne Terre) Northwest Oakville Orchard Farm Pacific Pattonville Parkway Central Parkway North Parkway South Parkway West Ritenour Rockwood Summit Roosevelt St. Charles St. Charles West Seckman Soldan Sumner Timberland Troy Buchanan Union University City Vashon Warrenton Washington Webster Groves Windsor Wright City

Illinois public high schools	Alton Belleville East Belleville West Brussels Bunker Hill Cahokia Calhoun Carlinville Carlyle Central Civic Memorial Collinsville Columbia Dupo East Alton-Wood River East St. Louis Edwardsville Freeburg Gillespie Granite City Greenville Highland Jersey Lebanon Madison Marissa Mascoutah Mount Olive Mulberry Grove New Athens North Mac Northwestern O'Fallon Roxana Southwestern Staunton Triad Waterloo Valmeyer Wesclin

Catholic Archdiocesan high schools	Althoff Bishop DuBourg Cardinal Ritter Duchesne John F. Kennedy Gilbault Mater Dei Rosati-Kain St. Dominic St. Francis Borgia St. Mary's St. Pius X Trinity

Catholic private high schools	Barat Academy Chaminade Christian Brothers College (CBC) Cor Jesu De Smet Incarnate Word Marquette Catholic Nerinx Hall Notre Dame St. Elizabeth St. John Vianney St. Joseph's Priory St. Louis University High Ursuline Villa Duchesne and Oak Hill School Visitation

Other private high schools	Christian Crossroads John Burroughs School Lutheran North Lutheran South Lutheran St. Charles Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School Meramec Valley Christian School Metro-East Lutheran North County Christian School The Principia Thomas Jefferson School Whitfield School Westminster Christian Academy

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