Another police officer was wounded by a friendly fire shot, that the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation originally incorrectly blamed on Thompson. On April 12, 2021, at around 3:15 pm EDT, a shooting occurred at the Austin-East High School.Ī 17-year-old African-American student, Anthony Thompson Jr., was shot and killed by the police during an armed struggle in the school's bathroom as the police were responding to a domestic violence call involving Thompson. After several years of failing to meet performance benchmarks set under the No Child Left Behind Act, in 2008-2009 the school was reorganized into small learning communities. In spite of the magnet program, which was intended to boost white enrollment, as of 2008-2009 more than 80% of Austin-East's students were African American.
In 1997, the school received magnet school designation, offering a focus in performing arts, science and math. In 1987, authority for the school shifted from the city of Knoxville to Knox County when the city school system was consolidated into Knox County Schools. Following the merger, many white students from East High transferred to other high schools, leaving Austin-East as a predominantly black school. The Austin school site became the location of Vine Middle School. In 1968 the two schools, which were only some eight to ten blocks apart, were combined to form a single racially integrated high school located in the East High building and named Austin East High School. Its sports teams were called the "Mountaineers." The school graduated a total of 17 classes before its merger with Austin High School in 1968. Initially an all-white school, East began to enroll black students in the early 1960s as the Knoxville city schools underwent a slow process of racial integration. Įast High School was one of four schools, the others being West, South (now South-Doyle), and Fulton, that opened in 1951 following the split-up of old Knoxville High. In 1952 Austin moved to a new modern building one block from its previous location, remaining there until its merger with East High School. Clay assumed the position of acting principal until the appointment of Otis T. Davis was principal until his death in 1948, when Dean of Girls Fannie C. Robinson served for just two years before moving to Atlanta and being succeeded as principal by Thomas R.
Robinson became school principal in 1928. By 1928, that school building had become overcrowded due to a growing African American population, and the school moved to a new location on Vine Street, once again using the Austin High School name. At the Payne Avenue location, the school was renamed Knoxville Colored High School. In 1916, Austin High School left its initial location on Central Street in Knoxville to move to a new building on Payne Avenue. Cansler, who had been teaching at Austin since 1900. He was succeeded as principal by Charles W. An 1881 graduate of Yale University, Manning remained as principal until retiring in 1912. Manning became school principal in 1881, the first black person to hold that position. She succeeded in raising $6,500, which was matched by $2,000 from the Knoxville Board of Education to start Austin High School. For eight years she worked as a grade school teacher in black schools in Knoxville, then she returned to the North to seek donations for establishment of a black high school. She had arrived in Knoxville in 1870 with the goal of helping to educate African American children, who at the time were schooled in church basements, lodge halls, and one-room schoolhouses scattered throughout the area. It was named for Emily Austin, a white woman from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who raised money to establish the school as Knoxville's first black high school. The two schools were combined in 1968 to form the integrated Austin East High School, housed in the East High School building. History Īustin-East is the successor to two formerly racially segregated schools, the all-black Austin High School and the all-white East High School. The school includes a magnet school program in performing arts. 35★9′23″N 83★3′14″W / 35.98972°N 83.88722°W / 35.98972 -83.88722Īustin-East High School, also known as Austin-East Magnet High School, is a public high school in Knoxville, Tennessee, operated by Knox County Schools.
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