El Paso High School believes student learning is the chief priority of this school. Student's learning needs should be the focus of all decisions impacting the work of the school. All students can learn. Students need to demonstrate their understanding of essential knowledge and skills, and be actively involved in solving problems and producing quality work.
El Paso High School has a very rich history and an extremely diverse population of students. The school was built in at the location you know as Our Lady on the Hill; however, the first campus was built in and was called Central School. Now years later, El Paso High is continuing an impressive legacy. EPHS has been educating students for almost years and have a rich history of famous alumni.
Here are a few examples:. Semicircular steps lead up to the main entrance to the school built of concrete and tile. At the top of the steps are six terra cotta pillars supporting a pediment and entablature bearing the school's name.
On each side of the steps are brick and terra cotta-trimmed bases, holding cast-iron candelabra. In May , students only needed 16 units of credit to graduate, but by September that number had changed to El Paso High offered the first music classes in the state and it was also the first to include a modern language, Spanish, in its course of study.
El Paso High School was also the first in the state to have a student military corps, organized by the district superintendent, Capt.
Calvin W. Esterly, a retired Army officer who had graduated from West Point. Marble floors add distinction to the halls, and fine hardwoods do the same for classrooms. Also of note is Jones Stadium, seating 12, and bearing the distinction of being one of the first concrete stadiums in the US. Having taught such esteemed alumni as Academy Award-winning actor F. Though encounters with the paranormal and the odd go almost as far back as the school itself, one particular part of its history that cannot be ignored was its time working as an overflow morgue during the World Wars.
Given the years the school has been in operation and the number of times it has been repeatedly altered to change with the times, discoveries along these lines are not uncommon.
Odd as these anecdotes are, there are more distinctly supernatural tales of bizarre goings-on at El Paso High. Over the years, people have reported slamming doors and the sounds of spectral pep rallies and games going on in the school gym, only to discover the building completely empty on further inspection.
One teacher told a story where, going home after a late night of work, he saw a girl in an old blue dress standing at the end of a hallway. Certain that she was not supposed to be there, he went to tell her to leave school. When she turned to face him, she looked at him sadly, and only then could the teacher realize that she was as intangible as mist and faded away from existence.
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