Eastern Technical High School

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Location
Eastern Technical High School
1100 Mace Avenue Essex, MD, 21221
Information
Principal	Thomas G. Evans
Type	Public high school
Grades	9-12
Motto	"A School Like No Other"
Color(s)	Orange and Black
Established	1970
Information	410-887-0190
Mascot	Maverick
Homepage	http://www.easttech.org

Eastern Technical High School is a Blue Ribbon school located in Essex, Baltimore County, Maryland. Along with their regular classes, students enrolled at this magnet school participate in a career major of their choosing. Majors include Engineering, Information Technology, Allied Health, Construction Technology. The school also features a variety of sports teams for both girls and boys. Eastern Technical High School used to be known as Eastern Vocational Technical High School, but due to lack of participation in the vocational program and an increased demand for technology education, the vocational program was removed and the school renamed. Unlike the other high schools in the area, Eastern Tech is not districted - it is not a "home" high school for any students regardless of location. All students must apply and meet certain standards for acceptance to the school.

1 Dress Code
2 Attendance
3 Academic Performance
4 Athletics
5 Career majors
6 Notable Alumni
7 See also
8 External links

[edit] Dress Code

Eastern Technical High School enforces a dress code that is notably more strict than those of other public high schools in the area. The dress code was recently altered, the changes being put into effect as of the start of the 2007-08 school year. The main features of the dress code are:

No shorts
No flip flops or open-toed shoes
No ripped clothing or clothing with holes

However, the main change to the dress code for the 2007-08 school year was to begin the 'Casual Friday' program, which allows students to wear shorts and capris on designated Fridays.

[edit] Attendance

Eastern Technical High School is often noted for the exceedingly high attendance rate of its students. In recent years, the school has maintained a daily attendance rate of 97 percent.

Year	Attendance
03-04	97.2%
04-05	97.3%
05-06	97.2%
06-07	97.1%

[edit] Academic Performance

Students at the school consistently perform at high academic levels. In 2006, Eastern Tech had the highest pass rate in Baltimore County of the High School Assessments in Algebra, Biology, English, and Government. Over 20 percent of the student body participate in Advanced Placement programs, and over 80 percent of those students achieve a passing grade on the AP exams.

[edit] Athletics

Eastern Technical High School is known for the success of several of its sports teams.

With no home track, Eastern Tech produced a State Champion 110m hurdler in 2005. In 2006, Eastern Technical won State Championships Boys and Girls long jump, Boys 400 meter run, Girls triple jump and 1600 meter run. In 2005 the Varsity Baseball Team won the schools first ever State Championship and just a few months later the Girls Varsity Soccer Team Won the second. [1]

Built originally as a middle school, Eastern Tech lacks a 400 meter track as well as the number of fields that many high schools have and, as a result, many teams practice on other campuses around the Essex area, such as the neighboring Kenwood High School or CCBC Essex. The school's mascot is the Maverick.

State Championships

1987 - Wrestling, Class AA-A
2005 - Girls Soccer, Class 2A
2007 - Baseball, Class 2A

[edit] Career majors

Although no longer a vocational school, all students attending the school have a career major class during their sophomore, junior, and senior years. The majors offered at Eastern are: Allied Health, Automotive, Business and Administration, Communications/Multimedia and Design, Computer Aided Drafting (Discontinued beginning in Fall 2007), Construction, Culinary, Engineering, Information Technology, Law Related Careers, and Teaching Education. In previous years some programs such as the Engineering major required students to begin career major classes in their freshman year. However that practice has recently been abandoned to give all students a chance to experience the "swing". This course allows students to spend a few weeks at a time in classes pertaining to each major in order to aid in their career choice. All 9th graders have to go through the swing in order to receive their Technology Credit as required by the state. In the present, Eastern Technical High School remains a Blue Ribbon School. "A School Like No Other."