Edmond Memorial High School

Infobox School
name=Edmond Memorial High School


type=public school
established= 1893
Colors= Maroon and Gray
Principal= Kyle Heath
Students=2016, as of the start of the '07-'08 term
location=Edmond, Oklahoma

Edmond Memorial High School (EMHS) is a school located in Edmond, Oklahoma. Its school colors are maroon and gray. The mascot is the bulldog. At the 2006-2007 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,006 students and 90.8 classroom teachers. The graduation rate for the class of 2007 was 99.6%. [http://www.schoolreportcard.org/2007/reports/src/200755I012705.pdf]

History

The school was originally named Edmond High School because it was the only high school in town. The first class graduated in 1922, and consisted of 24 students. As the city grew, the school changed location several times, moving to its current location on 15th Street in the 1960's. The current building was originally shaped like an "E" but was distorted when new additions were added. In 1975, the name of the school was changed to Edmond Memorial High School to honor six alumni who were killed while serving in Vietnam: Floyd Frazier, Jr., Allen Garrett, James Johnson, James Leonard, Danny Shores, and John Wilson. Because of its rapidly increasing size, the school split into three rival schools in 1994. The other two schools are Edmond North High School and Edmond Santa Fe High School. [http://www.edmondschools.net/memorial/EMHS_History.htm]

Awards and Recognition

Memorial is consistantly recognized as one of the top public high schools in Oklahoma. It received the Department of Education Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence in 2001-2002 school year, one of the highest honors a high school in the US can achieve. In 2008 Edmond Memorial was named the Siemens Foundation award winner for the state of Oklahoma for its consistant high Advanced Placement (AP) test scores in science, math and technology. [http://www.siemens-foundation.org/en/advanced_placement.htm] The senior class of 2007 received more than $11 million in scholarship offers, and 60% of the class took AP classes. [http://www.edmondschools.net/memorial/Dowloadable%20files/school%20profile.pdf] The school has over twenty teachers certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards teaching in every academic department.

wine Week

Established in the 1980s, Swine Week is a week-long fundraising event at Memorial. The theme of the 2008 Swine Week was Viva Hog Vegas. It raised over $1/4 million (after expenses) for the Oklahoma Family Center for Autism. [http://www.edmondsun.com/archivesearch/local_story_076002633.html] Both Edmond North and Edmond Santa Fe have started their own week-long fundraisers, modeled after Swine Week: BALTO and DWDW, respectively.

Notable alumni

Bill Self (1962- ), men's basketball coach at the University of Kansas

References

External links

* [http://www.edmondschools.net/memorial/ Edmond Memorial High School website]