Falmouth High School (Massachusetts)
Falmouth High School (FHS) is a public high school located in the town of Falmouth, Massachusetts, United States. The school serves roughly 870 students in grades 9–12. Over the past few years, Falmouth High School has undergone major renovations. Up until 1973, the school was named Lawrence High School and located at what is now Lawrence Junior High School. Falmouth High School is located at 874 Gifford Street Ext. The school's mascot is the Clipper and the school colors are maroon and white.
| Falmouth High School | |
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874 Gifford Street Ext. Falmouth, MA 02540 United States | |
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| Type | Public high school Open enrollment[1] |
| Established | 1973 |
| School district | Falmouth |
| Principal | Mary Gans |
| Teaching staff | 65.64 (FTE)[2] |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 841 (2018–19)[2] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 12.81[2] |
| Color(s) | Maroon & White |
| Athletics | MIAA – Division 2 |
| Athletics conference | Atlantic Coast League |
| Nickname | Clippers |
| Website | School website |
History
Up until 1973, the high school had been known as Lawrence High School for almost a century. The presence of a high school in the town of Falmouth dates back to the late 1800s, but the current Falmouth High School was only established in 1973. The name change was applied in order to more closely identify the high school with the town of Falmouth and give the school a community-based identity, and to disassociate from the similarly named Lawrence High School located in Lawrence, Massachusetts in an effort to squash the confusion between the two similarly named schools.
Students from the neighboring town of Mashpee attended Falmouth High School for many years, until the town of Mashpee established their own separate high school in 1996.
In recent years, Falmouth has undergone several periods of major renovation, which ran into the dozens of millions of dollars. These renovations came under intense scrutiny at several points and were plagued by constant setbacks, which included poor construction and architecture, massively exceeding the proposed budget, exceeding the proposed completion date, and several breach-of-contract suits against the school committee, architects, contractors and firms involved. Initially, the project was supposed to cost $67 million and take two years to complete, but the project ended up costing $87 million, $20 million over budget, and took almost six years to complete.[3]
Athletics
These are some recent accomplishments of Falmouth athletic teams.
- Boys' Hockey – State Champions (1979, 1981, 1982, 1996)
- Boys' Hockey – State Finalists (1983)
- Boys' Hockey – Super Eight Finalists (1994)
- Boys' Hockey – EMass Regional Finalists (1980)
- Girls' Hockey – State Champions (2015)
- Football – State Champions (1947, 2016)
- Football – State Finalists (1994)
- Football – State Playoff Qualifier (1994, 2015, 2016)
- Boys' Basketball – State Finalists (2009)
- Boys' Basketball – Eastern Massachusetts Champions (2009)
- Boys' Tennis – State Champions (2007)
Alumni
- Jamaal Branch – Former NFL Football player for the New Orleans Saints, 2003 Walter Payton Award winner while playing for Colgate University
- Steve Cishek – MLB Baseball pitcher for the Florida Marlins.
- Willie Ford – Former NFL Football player for the Oakland Raiders, Indianapolis Colts and Kansas City Chiefs.
- John Muse – Goaltender for the Carolina Hurricanes of the NHL
- Joseph Rago – Writer for The Wall Street Journal, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
References
- http://www.doe.mass.edu/finance/schoolchoice/choice-status.pdf
- "Falmouth High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved May 8, 2020.
- "Falmouth High School project again under scrutiny". Retrieved 12 February 2016.