In sports the school was previously classified as 6A, the largest classification based on enrollment, but it is now 3A.
In 2010, the school graduated 384. Seven of the students simultaneously received Associate of Arts degrees from being co-enrolled in the local community college .[2]
In 2010, Florida Today described the school: "predominately serves children of the working middle class."[2]
History
The original school was located in the former city of Eau Gallie, overlooking the Indian River. The successor school is 3.5 miles (5.6km) west.
Construction on the new Eau Gallie High School began in 1963. Students from the new building graduated in 1964. During the construction Eau Gallie High Students attended a split session at Melbourne High School.
The school had the lowest reportable incidents of any high school in Brevard for the 2006–7 school year.[3] The school uses surveillance cameras to monitor student activity.[4]
Academics
In 2009, 80% of students graduating went on to some form of higher education. 32% went to a four-year college, 48% to Eastern Florida State College.[2]
In the 2009–2010 academic year, Eau Gallie was the only high school in the state to be classified as a national demonstration school for Advancement Via Individual Determination. This is a program that encourages middling students to aim for higher education at the four year university level and provides them the tools and advice needed to achieve that goal.
Student body
In 2010, one-fourth of the seniors came from low-income families.[2]
Recognition
In 2011, the Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps won first place in the AFJROTC academic bowl. They competed in Washington, D.C., against hundreds of other teams after winning the state competition.[5]
Girls fast pitch softball won the state championship 2011.[6]
Softball team rated during the season as number two in the nation in the USA Today high school softball poll 2007-8[7]
In 2007, the school Board awarded bonuses to sixty-nine teachers at Eau Gallie out of only 375 awards to the sixteen high schools in the county. This was double the awards to the second highest school.[8]
In 2007, the Eau Gallie Odyssey of the Mind Team placed first at World Competition for 'The Large and Small of It' Division III.[9]
In 2009, the Eau Gallie symphonic band went to Carnegie Hall in New York City to perform a 30-minute program as part of the National Band and Orchestra Festival.
In 2016, the music department was given a distinguished recognition.
On September 24, 2021, a fight resulting in 2 hospitalisations and 5 arrests occurred prompting changes to the school’s lunch policy.
On March 17, 2022, the Chamber Orchestra performed at the 2022 ASTA National Orchestra Festival and was declared the High School Grand Champions. [10]
The mascot is the Commodore. It is believed that the first principal of Eau Gallie High School was a graduate from Vanderbilt University, whose mascot is also the Commodore.[citation needed]
Melbourne is a city in Brevard County, Florida, United States. It is located 72 miles (116 km) southeast of Orlando and 175 miles (282 km) northwest of Miami. It had population of 84,678 at the 2020 United States Decennial Census, up from 76,068 at the 2010 census. The municipality is the second-largest in the county by both size and population. Melbourne is a principal city of the Palm Bay–Melbourne–Titusville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. In 1969, the city was expanded by merging with nearby Eau Gallie.
Florida Today is the major daily newspaper serving Brevard County, Florida. Al Neuharth of the Gannett corporation started the paper in 1966, and some of the things he did with this newspaper presaged what he would later do at USA Today.
Eau Gallie is a section of the city of Melbourne, Florida, located on the city's northern side. It was an independent city in Brevard County from 1860 until 1969.
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