Eureka High School (California)

Eureka High School or EHS, formerly Eureka Senior High School, is a public high school in Eureka, California. EHS is the only regular public high school serving the City of Eureka and all of its contiguous unincorporated neighborhoods, several adjacent unincorporated communities, and related independent elementary school districts, which, altogether, comprise the Eureka Unified High School District. Administrated as part of Eureka City Schools, it is the largest high school in Humboldt County.HistoryEstablished in 1896, Eureka High School was the first high school on the far North Coast of California. The current main Eureka High School building, at 1900 J Street, is a Gothic Revival structure originally built in 1925 as the Eureka Junior High. The building was designed by John J. Donovan of Oakland and built by James McLaughlin of San Francisco. The site occupied by the current science building is on the location of the original high school main building, built by W. H. Weeks in 1914-1915, which was demolished after analysis deemed it too damaged to save following damage from earthquakes, culminating in the early 1960s. It was remarkably similar to a high school Weeks designed for Santa Cruz, which survives and is in use to this day.As the school year began in September 1981, Eureka City Schools consolidated the high school from a junior high/senior high system to a middle school/high school configuration, thus changing the name from Eureka Senior High School to Eureka High School, as the administration endeavored to manage effects of declining enrollment. From that time Freshmen have attended the school along with Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors.