When Eastside Memorial High School students and teachers were rallying and lobbying the Austin ISD trustees, begging them to save their school, there was one name that stood above all: Principal Connor Grady. As the campus got split, merged and redivided, Grady was there, raising test scores and raising spirits, proving that the right principal and the right team can change a school. Even though he’s now an assistant principal at Austin High, the impact he had on the lives of East Austin kids remains.
