East High School (Buffalo, New York)

(Redirected from Buffalo Vocational Technical Center) Public, coeducational school in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, United States

East High School
East High School in November 2021
Address

820 Northampton Street Buffalo, NY Humboldt Park Buffalo, Erie County, New York 14211 United States
Information
Type	Public, Coeducational
Opened	1927
Closed	2018
School district	Buffalo Public Schools
School number	307
Grades	9-12
Color(s)	Black and Gold
Team name	East High Panthers
Yearbook	The Orient

East High School was a comprehensive high school located in the East Side of Buffalo, New York. It operated from 1927 until 1977, reopened in 2005 and closed again in 2018 due to low academic performance. East High began phasing out in 2015 and was replaced by East Community High School and Pathways Academy, which are both housed in the building.

History

East High School (originally known as "East Side High School") was constructed in 1926 and opened in 1927. The building was a neighborhood school that served the Lower East Side families. The building became a symbol of rising demographic changes in the East Side when increasing numbers of African-Americans joined the student enrollment. In 1954, as part of a large redistricting initiative by the Buffalo Board of Education, East High's boundaries were redrawn so that it became "Buffalo's Negro high school".

In 1977, the school was closed due to a federal desegregation order and became Buffalo Vocational Technical Center, where students took vocational and career-oriented classes in addition to the core academics at their regular high school. This also allowed the school to become an annex to Kensington, Riverside, and Emerson High Schools. The school was close to being closed and transformed into an elementary/middle school campus in 1999, but that decision was revoked by the Buffalo Board of Education due to mounting public pressure. In 2002, the Vocational center was ultimately closed, and the building re-opened in 2005 once again as East High School.

In the spring of 2011, it was proposed that the current principal be replaced and the school would become an all-male school. Although the principal was placed on assignment within the district offices, no student demographic changes occurred. Beginning in 2015, the East High School program began to phase out due to low test scores and graduation rates. The program was replaced by a student credit recovery alternative education program known as Pathways Academy, and a new high school known as East Community High School.

Former principals

Previous assignment and reason for departure denoted in parentheses

Charles J. Costello–1927-1948 (Vice Principal - Hutchinson Central Technical High School, retired)
Victor J. Kless–1948-1952 (Vice Principal - East High School, died)
William H. Davenport–1952-1961 (Vice Principal - Kensington High School, retired)
Robert J. Rentz–1961-1969 (Vice Principal - East High School, retired)
Alonzo W. Thompson–1969-1975 (Principal - Clinton Junior High School, named Director of Buffalo Public Schools' Office of Affirmative Action)
William D. Bennett–1975-1977 (Director of Student Activities - East High School, named Principal of Buffalo Vocational Technical Center)
Geraldine Horton–2005-2011 (Principal - Buffalo Traditional School, named Supervising Principal of Buffalo Public Schools)
Casey M. Young-Welch–2011-2015 (Principal - Academy School @ 44, Middle Early College)
Janice M. Bowden –2015-2016 (Assistant Principal - East High School, named Assistant Principal of Academy School @ 4)
Rose M. Schneider–2016-2018 (Instructional Specialist - East High School, named Principal of North Park Middle Academy)

Notable alumni

Al Cervi - Former NBA player/coach
Matt Urban - Medal of Honor recipient, World War II
Grover Washington, Jr. - American jazz saxophonist
Juini Booth - Jazz bassist

References

Goldman, M. (2007). City on the Edge: Buffalo, New York .
^ Weed, G. M. (2001). School days of yesterday: Buffalo public schools history. (p. 29). Buffalo: Buffalo Standard Printing.
Campagna, D. (2000, January 25). Rare allies may save vocational center. The Buffalo News, p. B5.
Cardinale, A. (2002, April 16). Few parents at hearing on school closings. The Buffalo News, p. B3.
Simon, P. (2005, January 18). East High, Emerson Middle transform in contrasting ways. The Buffalo News, p. B1.
Robert J. Rentz, retired educator, lecturer. (1994, May 25). The Buffalo News, p. B6.
Alonzo W. Thompson Sr. dies. (2003, March 19). The Buffalo News, p. D7.
Brady, K. (1999, April 13). Bill Bennett, educator, coach, athlete, mentor to young - people, dies at 61. The Buffalo News, p. E10.
Jay Rey, B. (2018, Nov 11). Principal wins arbitration on falsifying graduations. Buffalo News, The (NY), p. 1.. Retrieved from https://infoweb.newsbank.com/resources/doc/nb/news/16FA053224F5D290?p=AWNB
Neville, Anne. "Arthur E. 'Juini' Booth, 73, renowned jazz bassist and composer". Buffalo News. Retrieved 2022-01-27.

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Middle/High Schools	PS 131 The Academy School PS 156 Frederick Law Olmsted School at Kensington PS 192 Buffalo Academy for Visual & Performing Arts PS 195 City Honors School PS 197 Math, Science, Technology Preparatory School PS 198 The International Preparatory School
High Schools	PS 206 South Park High School PS 207 Lafayette International High School PS 208 Riverside Academy High School PS 212 Leonardo da Vinci High School PS 301 Burgard High School PS 302 Emerson School of Hospitality PS 304 Hutchinson Central Technical High School PS 305 McKinley High School PS 309 East Community High School PS 335 Middle Early College High School PS 353 Newcomer Academy @ Lafayette PS 355 The New Buffalo School of Culinary Art & Hospitality Management PS 357 Pathways Academy @ East PS 363 Lewis J. Bennett School of Innovative Technology PS 366 Research Laboratory High School PS 402 Occupational Training Center
Notable Defunct Schools	PS 8 Follow Through Magnet School 13 School 24 School 44 School 57 School 60 School 63 School 77 School 87 Fosdick-Masten Park High School PS 192 Buffalo Traditional School PS 200 Bennett High School PS 202 Grover Cleveland High School PS 203 Kensington High School PS 204 Lafayette High School PS 205 Riverside Institute of Technology PS 302 Emerson Vocational High School PS 306 Seneca Vocational High School PS 307 East High School

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