- Weymouth High School
Infobox Secondary school
name = Weymouth High School
established = 1969
type = High School
city = Weymouth
state =Massachusetts
country =USA
principal = Dr. Anthony Pope
grades = 9-12
faculty =
students = 2112
mascot = Wildcat
motto =
colors = Maroon and Gold
newspaper = The Wild Cat
website = [http://www.weymouth.ma.us/schools/commercial/index.asp Weymouth High School]Weymouth High School (WHS) is a comprehensive
public high school located inWeymouth, Massachusetts that serves students in grades nine through twelve. Weymouth High School also offers a Career and Technical Education Program. The courses offered in the CTE Program are: Aesthetics, Allied Health, Architectural Design, Automotive Technology, Early Childhood Education, Information Technology, Construction Technology, Cosmetology, Culinary Arts, Graphic Communications and Sheet Metal.Mission statement: "The Weymouth High School Community is committed to providing a safe, supportive and respectful learning environment where all students are encouraged to work toward their potential in becoming responsible, life-long learners and productive citizens in a global society."
About The Building
There are some terms that pertain to Weymouth High that one should know.
*The Maroon House (also known as The "Maroon Building" or "Old Building", as it was first constructed before the expansion). This half of the school contains the English,History and Art / Music wings, as well as thegym nasium(which has one of two weight rooms), theauditorium and the Maroon Cafeteria.This building also includes "the dungeon", a weight room that is in a remote part of the school. Recently added was a trophy case to display awards teams in the school have obtained.
*The Physical Education department has 4 full time members. 9th and 10th grade students are required to take .4 credits each year. 11th and 12th grade students must pass .2 each year as a graduation requirement.
*The Gold House; this addition resides on whereSouth Intermediate School 's track once was. It houses theMathematics ,Science , Vocational, andForeign Language wings, as well as thePlanetarium , the Library Media Center and the Gold Cafeteria. this also has a cardio room, a bakery, a bank, a restaurant, and a salon.
*The connector, as it is called informally, which is one of two long, wide corridors that connect the two Houses. It leads from south of the gym in the Maroon House to the intersection of theMath andScience wings. This connector joins the 2000 level of the gold builing with the 100 level of the maroon.
*The north connector (also called simply the "new connector"), is the second corridor that acts as the passage from the English wing to the Science wing.Athletics
During the 2006–2007 school year, Weymouth High School enjoyed much athletic success. The football team went a surprising 9-3, winning the Bay State Carey Division, and making it to the playoffs for the first time since 2002.
In the winter, the Boys Hockey team enjoyed even more success, becoming an underdog public school that made it to the state's coveted
Super Eight championship, which determines the state champion. They surprised many people by going 3-0-0 in Round Robin play and advancing deep into the playoff rounds. After beating off four Catholic schools (Malden Catholic, Catholic Memorial, Central Catholic, and Austin Prep), the Boston Globe notoriously labeled Weymouth as a "Public Nuisance," both for the noise they made on the ice and the rowdiness of their fans. In the championship game against BC High, Weymouth suffered a crushing defeat, losing 6-1, with a backup goalie playing.Led by a strong senior class of 2007, the school saw many teams play well, including Boys and Girls Crosscountry, Boys and Girls Soccer, Wrestling, Boys Basketball, Girls Tennis, Boys and Girls Lacrosse, and Winter and Spring Boys and Girls Track.
Weymouth wrestling won their most recent state title in 2001.Weymouth football was once considered a national powerhouse with a storied past including 1 national title and 11 state titles.
In 2006, Weymouth captured their first ever NESBA and USSBA Massachusetts marching band championships, including winning the high music and percussion captions, with their show titled "Bernstein!"
In January 2007 Boy's Basketball player Tommy Deegan reached his 1,000th point, becoming the first player in Weymouth to do so since the expansion. Weymouth basketball will never be the same without the class of 08.
chedule Structure
In a full-length school day at WHS is broken up into 5 50 minute blocks and one 90 minute "power" or floating block. The blocks, labeled A through G, follow a modified drop and rotate pattern allowing all students, both Career and Technical and standard path, to access classes. There are 6 days in the full schedule, each with a unique order of classes. Vocational students in WHS have much different schedules. The blocks remain floating but students remain in their voc. classes for periods at a time.
History
Originally, Weymouth High served as the
junior high school in Weymouth, serving the students from 8th and 9th grade. It only consisted of the Maroon House (not called that at the time). Because of the upcoming expansion in 2002, (see below), this school was extended into 7th to 9th as South Intermediate School was demolished.Actually prior to WHS becoming a junior high school it was Weymouth South High School and the high school in the North end of town was Weymouth North High School.Expansion
In
2002 , it was decided that Weymouth High was too small to contain its current students and upcoming student classes. The school board wrote up a plan for an addition that would roughly double the size of the school. This added on a new cafeteria and a new football field. It would also turned the old library into what is now known as the Humanities Center. To make room for all of this, the nearby South Intermediate School was demolished and the oldtrack and field area destroyed.This expansion cost the school approximately
USD $22 million [http://www.mass.gov/treasury/PressReleases/101304.htm Plan by the Massachusetts Treasury to sponsor Weymouth High for the expansion] ] , and took about two years to complete.Graduation
Weymouth High requires passing the MCAS and a minimum of 20 credits to graduate. A credit is rewarded each time a class is passed with an average letter grade of D- or higher, or at least 60%. The amount of credits is dependent on how often the class is taken. For example, a
Calculus course that meets every day for the year will reward the student with 1 credit if that student passes. In classes that do not meet every day or that are only a semester long, such asPsychology , which is only for half the year, will receive reduced credits. In this case, Psychology meets every day in a 6-day cycle for either the first two or last two quarters of the term, so the passing student would receive .5 credits.For the past 6 years Weymouth has received Academic Support Grant money to tutor students who have failed the Math and/or English MCAS exam. We have small numbers that need support for the retests. A six week program is run for these students immediately prior to the exams. The students generally come from studies to tutoring. The student to teacher ratio is often 1:1 or 1:2. This individualized approach has been very successfull.
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.