Elmer L. Meyers Junior/Senior High School (commonly known throughout the area as 'E. L. Meyers' or 'Meyers') is an urban, public school located on 341 Carey Avenue, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. It is one of three public high schools in the Wilkes-Barre Area School District. Meyers is both a junior and senior public high school, offering education to approximately 898 students in grades 7–12. The student to teacher ratio is approximately 12.6 students per teacher. Meyers' sports teams are called "Mohawks." Meyers and G.A.R. High Schools have one of the longest standing sports rivalries in the Wyoming Valley.HistoryMeyers opened in the 1930 and has survived the flood of 1972 from Hurricane Agnes.Meyers has many traditions that are still practiced today including Moving Up day, a ceremony that officially marks the junior class move to senior status, as well as the senior class moving to the stage for graduation, which happens the day after in the school’s auditorium. The school also celebrates Senior tea, a tradition that was started in the 1930s.Meyer has had visits from various famous individuals, including Amelia Earhart in spring of 1936 after the Meyer’s High School Women’s Club brought her in to talk to students about “Adventures in Flying”.More recently, the school had Travis Clark and Hunter Thomsen from We The Kings perform an acoustic set in October 2009. After winning the High School Hookup V2.0 from local radio station 97 BHT, the two members performed a free show in the auditorium.
