East High School (Buffalo, New York)

East High School is a comprehensive high school located in the East Side of Buffalo, New York. It serves 610 students from Grades 9-12. The current principal is Dr. Casey Young Welch, and the current assistant principals are Ms. Irene Gelber and Mr. Benjamin Willis.

History
East High School was constructed in 1926. In 1979, due to poor academic performance, the school was transformed into the Buffalo Vocational Technical Center, where students took vocational and career-oriented classes in addition to the core academics at their regular high school. The school was close to being closed and transformed into an elementary/middle school campus in 1999, but that decision was revoked by the Buffalo Board of Education due to mounting public pressure. In 2002, the Vocational center was ultimately closed, and the building re-opened in 2005 once again as East High School.

In the spring of 2011, it was proposed that the current principal be replaced and the school would become an all-male school. Although the principal was place on assignment within the district offices, there are no known plans to change the schools' enrollment demographics at this time.

Selected former principals
Previous assignment and reason for departure denoted in parentheses
 * Mr. Charles J. Costello–?-1948 (Vice Principal - East High School, unknown)
 * Mr. Victor J. Kless–1948-1952 (Vice Principal - East High School, passed away)
 * Mr. William H. Davenport–1952-1961 (Vice Principal - Kensington High School, retired)
 * Mr. Robert J. Rentz–1961-1968 (Vice Principal - East High School, retired)
 * Mr. Alonzo W. Thompson–1968-1975 (Vice Principal - Clinton Junior High School, named Director of Buffalo Public Schools' Office of Affirmative Action)
 * Mr. William D. Bennett–1975-1979 (Chemistry teacher - East High School, named Principal of Buffalo Vocational Technical Center)
 * Ms. Geraldine Horton–2005-2011 (Principal - Buffalo Traditional School, named Supervising Principal of Buffalo Public Schools)

Selected former assistant principals
Previous assignment and reason for departure denoted in parentheses
 * Mr. Charles Costello (unknown, named Principal of East High School)
 * Mr. Charles A. Kennedy–?-1931 (Unknown, named Principal of Grover Cleveland High School)
 * Mr. Victor Kless–1931-1948 (Classics teacher - East High School, named Principal of East High School)
 * Mr. Carl S. Walz (Vice Principal - Lafayette High School, named Vice Principal of Bennett High School)
 * Mr. Lloyd A. Miller–1943-1957 (Vice Principal - Riverside High School, named Principal of Bennett High School)
 * Mr. Robert Rentz–1957-1961 (Guidance Counselor - Lafayette High School, named Principal of East High School)
 * Mr. Robert C. McGowan–1958-1959 (Vice Principal - Riverside High School, named Principal of Lafayette High School)
 * Dr. John A. Demerly
 * Mr. William Blomberg
 * Mr. Gerald S. Hare
 * Mr. James F. Harmon
 * Mr. Joseph M. Tomaselo
 * Mr. John J. Mattimore–?-1971 (Guidance Counselor - Burgard Vocational High School, named Principal of South Park High School)
 * Mr. Alfred H. Raso
 * Mr. Nelson J. Scott
 * Mr. Frederick D. Gantner–?-1972 (unknown, named Principal of Lafayette High School)
 * Dr. Wayne Broman
 * Mr. Larry Hunley
 * Mr. Gary M. Tydus–2005-2006 (Assistant Principal - McKinley Vocational High School, returned to McKinley)


 * Ms. Naomi Cerre–2006-2010 (Assistant Principal - Grover Cleveland High School, named Assistant Principal of McKinley Vocational High School)
 * Mr. Alvion Johnson–2007-2009 (Principal On Assignment - Harvey Austin School, assigned to Office of School Performance)

Selected former administrators
* Denotes interim appointment