Warren Easton Charter High School

Warren Easton Charter High School

Address

3019 Canal St New Orleans , Louisiana 70119 United States
Coordinates	29°58′07″N 90°05′26″W / 29.968537°N 90.090506°W / 29.968537; -90.090506
Information
School type	Public Charter
Established	1843, Reestablished 2006
Principal	Mervin Jackson
Grades	9-12
Gender	Co-ed
Campus type	Inner-city
Color(s)	Purple and old gold
Athletics	LHSAA
Team name	Fighting Eagles
Website	warreneastoncharterhigh.org

Warren Easton Charter High School is a secondary school in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Warren Easton Charter Foundation governs the school, which is chartered by Orleans Parish School Board.

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New Orleans, LA As you know, the city flood during Katrina and Easton received anywhere between 8 to 10 feet of water. So the whole first floor, all the gym, and everything else was underwater. It remained underwater for a good 2, 3 weeks. There were rumors that it was going to be changed into a hotel, it would be sold, that it would not open back as Warren Easton and this could not happen as a lot of the teachers and alumni had decided to do. When we learned that the school might not reopen after Katrina, a group of us got together and said you know we’re going to get our school open, they’re not going to close this 130 year history. We actually went to the school board and asked if we could charter the school, and surprisingly they said yes. We now run it as a charter school and we’re just so proud of it. Coming in on a wing and a prayer, everybody here including our board, Sandra Bullock actually fell in our lap as Godsend. Because not only has she given the school great visibility, but she’s also put a lot of her personal time and money into the school. This auditorium was just an absolute mess. So she decided to do the auditorium. She’s done many other things, but that was the first donation. It’s a beautiful building and a beautiful room. We thank her for what she’s done to make it come to life again. We call Warren Easton the miracle on Canal Street, that’s where we’re located and it helped bring back the Mid-City neighborhood in which it’s located. This is something worth saving and we’ve been blessed, and I think it shows you what can be done when people decided just to go get it, and that’s what we’ve done. This is hope. This school is hope. Therefore if this school is hope, this city has hope. For more information visit www.FEMA.gov.

History

The school was founded in 1843 as Boys High School. It was the first high school in the State of Louisiana and as a public school was formed to educate the working-class population of the city of New Orleans. By 1855 the school had expanded to four locations. After the Civil War in 1867, the four Boys High Schools were merged into Consolidated Boys High School.^{[citation needed]}

In 1911, the Orleans Parish School Board bought a property for a new high school and construction began during that year. The school received its name in 1911, Warren Easton High School. It was named after Warren Easton, the first Supervisor of Education of the State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans.^[1] The principal administrator and the faculty moved into 3019 Canal Street in 1913. The school was originally an all-boys school and in 1952 the school became coeducational. In 1967, Easton was racially integrated and in 1977 the school became a fundamental magnet school.^[1]

Prior to 2005, the school was directly under the authority of the Orleans Parish School Board. In 2005, as Hurricane Katrina was about to hit, the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA) designated Easton as a place where people could receive transportation to the Louisiana Superdome, a shelter of last resort.^[2] After Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, the school was closed for one year.

In 2006, the school re-opened as a charter school and became Warren Easton Charter High School.^[1] In 2007, actress Sandra Bullock adopted the school. Bullock contributed thousands of dollars to the school and also helped to build an on-campus health clinic.^[3]

Curriculum

In the 1930s the school hosted German language classes for adults.^[4] Chinese and Spanish are offered to students as a foreign language as of 2015.

Athletics

Warren Easton Charter athletics competes in the LHSAA.^[5]

Championships

Football championships

(9) State Championships: 1912, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1942

Notable alumni

Salvador Anzelmo, Louisiana state representative^[6]
Charles Foti (Class of 1953), former Attorney General of Louisiana; former criminal sheriff of Orleans Parish^[7]
Pete Fountain, clarinetist^[7]
Royce Johnson, actor
Charles Edward Kerbs, artist and playwright
Anthony Mackie (Class of 1997), actor
Master P, rapper^[8]^[9]
Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of US President John F. Kennedy^[10]
- Oswald attended Warren Easton in September–October 1955; he was in the 10th grade^[11]
Eddie Price, professional football player and inductee to the College Football Hall of Fame^[12]
Louis Prima, bandleader
Clay Shaw, businessman implicated by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison in the assassination of Kennedy^[13]
Trombone Shorty (Class of 2004), musician
Steve Van Buren, professional football player and inductee to the Pro Football Hall of Fame^[14]
Sedrick Van Pran-Granger, current professional football player for the Buffalo Bills^[15]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "SCHOOL HISTORY." (Archive) Warren Easton High School. Retrieved on 16 March 2013.
^ Nolan, Bruce. "KATRINA TAKES AIM." The Times-Picayune. Sunday August 28, 2005. Retrieved on March 18, 2013.
^ "Sandra Bullock's adopted school reaches milestone". Retrieved 2017-10-03.
^ Merrill, Ellen C. (2005). Germans of Louisiana. Pelican Publishing. p. 236. ISBN 9781455604845.
^ "Easton, Warren". lhsaa.org. Retrieved September 9, 2019.
^ "Salvador "Sam" Anzelmo". New Orleans Advocate. June 4, 2014. Retrieved December 14, 2014 – via Legacy.com.
^ ^a ^b Plaisance, Stacey (September 11, 2013). "Celebrated Warren Easton High School turns 100". Associated Press. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
^ Wilson, Elliot (March 1999). "G-Ball Playa". Vibe. 7 (2): 79. ISSN 1070-4701.
^ Golianopoulos, Thomas (6 August 2016). "The Missed Shot That Was Master P's NBA Career". Complex. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
^ Savodnik, Peter (October 13, 2013). "Lee Harvey Oswald's lonely childhood: No one imagined he'd kill the president". Salon. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
^ "Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy". No. Appendix 13. National Archive. Warren Commission. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
^ "Eddie Price (1982)". footballfoundation.org. Retrieved July 30, 2023.
^ James, Rosemary; Wardlaw, Jack (1967). Plot Or Politics?: The Garrison Case and Its Cast. New Orleans: Pelican Publishing Company. p. 62. ISBN 9781589809185. Retrieved August 6, 2015.
^ "Steve Van Buren". Pro-Football-Reference. Retrieved January 28, 2016.
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