Emmaus High School is a large

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located in

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. The school serves grades nine through 12 in Pennsylvania's

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in the

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region of eastern Pennsylvania. Emmaus High School is located immediately off Cedar Crest Boulevard, at 500 Macungie Avenue in Emmaus, a borough miles south of

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Student population

As of the 2020–21 school year, Emmaus High School had a student enrollment of 2,871 students and 150.7 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis) for a

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of 19.05, according to

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data. There were 587 students eligible for

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and 88 eligible for reduced cost lunch. Emmaus High School serves students grades nine through 12 from Emmaus, six surrounding townships of Alburtis, Lower Macungie, Macungie, Upper Milford, Vera Cruz, and Wescosville, seven surrounding unincorporated villages of

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, Hensingersville, Old Zionsville, Powder Valley, Shimerville,

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, and Zionsville, and the

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of Ancient Oaks, all located in the

, the third most populated metropolitan region of

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. The school ranks among the top Lehigh Valley public high schools in its percentage of graduating students who pursue post-secondary education. Among its Class of 2007, 79 percent of Emmaus High School graduates entered colleges, universities, or other post-graduate education. The school also maintains a program for academically gifted students, which includes advanced classes and a mentorship program. Noting the academic quality of Emmaus High School, ''

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'' magazine named Emmaus one of the nation's "Top 100" places to live in 2007 and again in 2009. Two middle schools (Eyer Middle School and Lower Macungie Middle School), both located in Macungie, serve grades six through eight and feed into Emmaus High School. Seven elementary schools (Alburtis, Wescosville, Lincoln, Jefferson, Macungie, Shoemaker, and Willow Lane) and one elementary

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(Seven Generations Charter School) feed into the two middle schools and then Emmaus High School.

History

1880s to 1955

What today is the

began in the 1880s as the Emaus School District, using the

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spelling of Emmaus, named for the

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village of Emmaus, where, according to the Bible's

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was seen by his disciples Luke and

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in what is known as his

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following his

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and

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. Upon its founding in the 1880s, Emaus School District began offering high school classes, providing education up to tenth grade in one of the rooms of a four-room school building on East Main Street in Emmaus. The first graduating class on record was the Emaus High School class of 1890 with two graduates. The following year, in 1891, the high school grades were moved to the Central Building on Emmaus's Ridge Street. Emaus High School obtained a home of its own when, in 1915, the high school moved into a brand new building on North Street between Fifth and Sixth Streets in Emaus. While the building was designated the Jefferson Building, yearbooks of the era identify the school as Emaus High School. By this time, the high school was made up of tenth grade (juniors) eleventh grade (middlers) and twelfth grade (seniors). The yearbook of the class of 1916 pictures 18 graduates, evenly divided between boys and girls. The Emaus High School class of 1931 had 45 graduates. One of the bygone features of Emaus High School life on North Street was open lunch where students could walk home for lunch, or go across the street to a student-oriented restaurant. The Jefferson Building was enlarged several times. By 1934, it was considered a state-of-the-art high school with 16 classrooms, a library, auditorium, gymnasium, woodshop, and home economics room. It also had developed many of the activities and athletic teams that continue to this day; the 1931 yearbook lists a band, chorus, orchestra (55 student members), 16 different clubs, and teams for

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(boys and girls), and

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. Emaus High School's main football rival at this time was East Greenville High (now

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), which met Emmaus annually on

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in what was referred to as the "Turkey Day" game. In the 1930s, the Emaus High School football field was located roughly a mile away from the high school at the site of Emmaus's current recreational Fourth Street Field. The Emaus School District has been operating since at least 1861. By the 1930s and 1940s, the boroughs of Macungie and Alburtis contracted with the Emaus district to send their high school students to Emaus High School. There were no school buses, and out-of-borough students commuted to and from the high school by

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passenger train service at the Emaus train station. Located on Jubilee Street, the station was constructed in the late 19th century, later decommissioned, and destroyed by fire on March 1, 1993.

Emaus High School becomes Emmaus High School

In 1938, Emmaus abandoned the

spelling of its name in favor of the town's current spelling, and

and the high school followed suit. With Emmaus High School's population growing rapidly, the Jefferson Building was no longer able to accommodate the needs of the growing school. The boroughs of Emmaus, Macungie, and Alburtis and the townships of Lower Macungie, and Upper Milford merged their school districts into what was then called the East Penn Union School District and is now known as East Penn School District. The unified district combined their efforts and resources to vastly expand Emmaus High School, which was constructed at the school's current location at 500 Macungie Avenue in Emmaus. Several times since, Emmaus High School has been upgraded and renovated to accommodate its growing student population.

1955 to current

In 1955, the first sections of the new Emmaus High School opened. The new building included an auditorium and gymnasium, which far surpassed those of the old building and included science labs, language labs, and a

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. After the high school moved out of the Jefferson Building, that building was briefly used as Emmaus Junior High School until a seventh and eighth grade wing was added to the new high school building around 1960, making Emmaus High School a six-year school with a single principal but with separate assistant principals for the senior high and junior high grades. In 1965, the Emmaus Junior High School building, with its own faculty and administration, opened on the north side of the high school building to serve grades seven through nine. The Jefferson Building, in turn, was designated as one of several

elementary schools. By the early 1960s, the number of sports teams at Emmaus High School expanded to include

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, and

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for boys, cross country,

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and

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for girls, and

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, and

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for both boys and girls. A class play was presented annually; in 1969, Emmaus High School produced its first musical, ''

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''. By 1998, the school's population had grown significantly due to an influx of residents predominantly from

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, and

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, and Emmaus High School expanded again, taking over the junior high building, adding additional space and using the whole complex to house grades nine through twelve. The Jefferson Building, the first dedicated home of Emmaus High School, was subsequently decommissioned, demolished in 1999, and replaced by Jefferson Elementary School. In 2005, a second major expansion of Emmaus High School was completed. In October 2015, Emmaus High School was placed on

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amid rumors of potential gun violence. In November 2018, a torrential rainstorm flooded the school, causing administrators to cancel five days of classes. Financial aid and assistance with clean up were provided by East Penn School District."Important Message: Emmaus High School Flood Information Update 11/5/18," by EPSD, November 5, 2018
Retrieved November 6, 2018. The main office, auxiliary gym, wrestling room, 40 classrooms, and adjacent areas were impacted by stormwater. On December 17, 2021, Emmaus High School was placed under a cautionary lockdown due to a potential external threat after various threats had been made to schools across the country. Several threats were made by an Emmaus High School freshman student against the school's assistant principals and another student. After almost two hours in cautionary lockdown, students were dismissed in small groups under police supervision. The suspect, a 14-year-old female Emmaus High School student, was arrested the following day, on December 18, and charged with making terrorist threats.

Academics

Emmaus High School ranks in the top academic tier of Pennsylvania public high schools based on state testing results. In the 2008 Pennsylvania System of State Assessments, Emmaus High School ranked in the top five percent of all public high schools in the state in

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, the top 20 percent in

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, and the top 25 percent in

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. In 2007, the mean SAT score for Emmaus High School students was 1580. In 2013, Emmaus High School was named the top academically performing high school in Lehigh County, according to data released by the Pennsylvania Department of Education. As of 2022, 90% of

teachers hold a

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or higher. The school's academic team has made several appearances at the national level, appearing three consecutive years (2003, 2004, and 2005) in the Panasonic Academic Challenge at

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and placing fifth nationally in the competition in 2003. In 2015 and 2018, the school's academic team qualified for participation in the National Academic Quiz Tournaments in

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. Emmaus High School also holds the record for the most wins of any high school in Pennsylvania's ''

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'' contest, an advanced academic quiz game televised on Pennsylvania PBS affiliates.

Athletics

Emmaus High School competes athletically in the

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(EPC) of the

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, one of the premier high school athletic divisions in the nation. The school fields teams in all of the association's sports. Since 1955, Emmaus has won EPC championships at least once in every one of the conference's sports, and several of its graduates have gone on to professional and

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-level athletics, including the NFL and NBA. Among the Emmaus High School Class of 2007, 26 Emmaus High School athletes signed letters of intent for full

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athletic scholarships. Emmaus holds the record for the most Pennsylvania state championships in all sports (13 since 2002) among all EPC schools and has the second most EPC conference championships in all sports, behind Parkland High School. In 2017,

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signed a four-year deal for exclusive sponsorship of Emmaus' athletic teams. In 2019, the ranking and review site

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ranked Emmaus High School the 29th best public school in Pennsylvania for athletics. Emmaus holds the record for the most recorded EPC championships in eight conference sports:

, boys

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, boys

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, boys

, girls

, girls soccer, girls swimming, and

. Emmaus High School's mascot is the "Green Hornet." Entrances to the Emmaus High School campus prominently feature green and gold billboards and flags stating "Home of the Hornets" in the school's colors of green and gold.

Basketball

Aaron Gray, an alumnus of the Emmaus High School basketball program, went on to a seven-year NBA career from 2007 through 2014, playing for the

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, and

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and subsequently for three seasons as an NBA coach with the

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from 2015 through 2018.

Boys soccer

Emmaus High School boys

has played for the EPC championship in each of the past eleven consecutive seasons (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021), winning five district titles during this period.

Boys swimming and diving

In February 2020, Emmaus High School won its 13th consecutive

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boys swimming and diving championship.

Fitness

Emmaus High School's Marine Corps national physical fitness team has repeatedly been among the nation's best. In 2006, its boys and girls team placed second in the Pennsylvania state competition. In 2015, its girls fitness team placed first and its boys fitness team placed second in the national high school physical fitness championships.

Football

The Emmaus

team was co-champion of the

(EPC) in 1981. In 2008, Emmaus

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C.J. Billera broke school football records for most all-time touchdowns and career scoring. In 2010, for the first time since the 1981 season, Emmaus won Pennsylvania's Class 4A EPC championship in football. During the 2010 season, Emmaus senior tailback Joe Williams broke three school football records: most yards in a single game (282), most touchdowns in a single game (six), and most points in a single game (36). In 2016, the Emmaus football team won the East Penn Conference South division championship. In 2021, class of 2024 quarterback Josiah Williams broke the school's record for most passing yards in a season with 1,893 yards. In February 2020,

approved $1.7 million in spending to construct a new

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playing surface and

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lettering on the Emmaus High School football field, located on the school campus. Under a 10-year promotional contract with

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, the school district is recouping $1.45 million in promotional fees associated with the field upgrades. The field also features a cannon that fires when Emmaus scores a touchdown. Print: August 4, 2013, page SP1 Multiple Emmaus High School football players have gone on to NFL careers, including two current NFL players,

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Kyzir White, and

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wide receiver Kevin White."Kyzir White returns home as 'a perfect fit',"
''Sports Illustrated'', April 5, 2022

Girls field hockey

Emmaus High School girls

team has consistently ranked among the best in the nation for decades. Emmaus has won the Pennsylvania state championship in girls field hockey thirteen times in the program's history. As of 2022, Emmaus High School has won the

girls field hockey championship in 34 consecutive seasons. In 2016, the national sports web site topofthecircle.com ranked Emmaus the best girls field hockey team in the nation for the fourth time in the program's history. '' The Allentown Morning Call'' has called the program "an organized, multifaceted machine." In September 2015, Emmaus High School field hockey coach Sue Butz-Stavin set the national high school record for most victories by a girls field hockey coach when she recorded her 840th victory. In the 2021 season, Butz-Stavin recorded her 1000th win.

Ice hockey

Emmaus High School is one of eleven

-area high schools with an

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team; the team is a member of the Lehigh Valley Scholastic Ice Hockey League.

Rifle

In the 2016-2017 winter sport season, the Emmaus

team went undefeated, capturing the regular season championship, defeating top rival

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to win the playoff championship, and going on to place second in Pennsylvania states for the season.

Other sports

Emmaus High School's girls swimming and diving team has proven one of the best in the state, winning Pennsylvania state championships in six years (2000, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, and 2009). Its boys swimming and diving team consistently has been one of the top teams in the state, dating back to the 1970s, winning Pennsylvania state championships in both 2006 and 2007 and the District 11 AAA championship in nine consecutive seasons from 2007 through 2015. Emmaus High School has won Pennsylvania state championships in girls

(1997), girls

(2000), and girls cross country (2007, 2008, and 2009). In 2008, Emmaus High School's boys

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team won the EPC championship and advanced to the Pennsylvania state tournament. In 2012, Emmaus High School's

team took first place in the United States Military Duels held in

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Activities

Computer programming team

In May 2017, the Emmaus High School computer programming team won the

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Invitational All-Star contest, a global tournament of the best high school computer programming teams from around the world held in

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Music and the arts

In December 2007, Emmaus' men's

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group, known as Fermata Nowhere, landed a brief stint on

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's ''

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'', performing "

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". In April 2015, Emmaus High School's chorale group performed at St. Peter's Basilica in

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School newspaper

Emmaus High School's official student newspaper is ''The Stinger''. The newspaper's name is a reference to the school's mascot, the

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, and it is produced by a staff of students, who report, photograph, and write all of the newspaper's content. The newspaper typically contains several sections related to Emmaus High School, including Emmaus High School sports, faculty, coach and student interviews, editorials, local popular culture, and satire and jokes related to school news and events. In most issues, the final page of ''The Stinger'' is dedicated to student-drawn comics, which also usually deal with student-related themes. ''The Stinger'' has been known to tackle controversial topics, especially Emmaus High School's problems with student fights,

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, and widespread

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Notable alumni

* Roy Afflerbach, former mayor of

* Charles Bierbauer, former television journalist, CNN *

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, composer and music publisher *

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, television and film actor (attended) * Keith Dorney, former professional football player,

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* Aaron Gray, former professional basketball player,

, and

* Scott Haltzman, psychiatrist and author *

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, executive producer and video game director,

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, jazz and classical music pianist and composer * Michael Johns, healthcare executive and former

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presidential speechwriter * K. C. Keeler, head football coach,

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* Clarence K. Lam, Maryland state senator * Joe Milinichik, former professional football player,

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, and

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, former

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gold-medal winner,

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* Heather Parry, film producer and former

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video producer * Nicole Reinhart, former professional

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and two-time

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gold-medal winner * Cindy Werley, former

1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

women's field hockey player * Kevin White, professional football player,

* Kyzir White, professional football player,

Notes

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Student population

History

1880s to 1955

Emaus High School becomes Emmaus High School

1955 to current

Academics

Athletics

Basketball

Boys soccer

Boys swimming and diving

Fitness

Football

Girls field hockey

Ice hockey

Rifle

Other sports

Activities

Computer programming team

Music and the arts

School newspaper

Notable alumni

See also

Notes

External links