Arlington High School | |
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Address | |
869 Massachusetts Avenue , 02476 United States | |
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Type | Public high school |
Established | 1922 |
Principal | Matthew Janger |
Teaching staff | 115.86 (FTE) [1] |
Grades | 9–12 |
Number of students | 1,527 (2022-23) [1] |
Student to teacher ratio | 13.18 [1] |
Color(s) | Maroon, gray, and white |
Song | "Red and white, lets go fight." |
Team name | Spy Ponders (formerly Indians, Trojans, Red and Gray) |
Rival | Waltham High School |
Accreditation | New England Association of Schools and Colleges |
Newspaper | The Ponder Page |
Yearbook | Spy Ponder (formerly The Indian) |
Website | ahs |
Arlington High School is a public high school located in Arlington, Massachusetts. As of 2022, the school enrolled 1,483 students. [2]
In 2019, a town vote approved the phased construction of a new Arlington High School on the footprint of the existing campus. [3] Site work began in 2020, with Phase 1 completed in 2022. [4] The entire project, slated for completion by the end of 2024, is budgeted at $291 million. [5]
Arlington High has fared well in national school comparisons; in U.S. News' 2022 rankings, it ranked 898th of 17,843 American public high schools and 39th of 340 in Massachusetts. [6]
Arlington's first high school, named Cotting Academy and then Cotting High School, was built in 1858 on what is still named Academy Street. It stood at 19 Academy, on the location of what is now the Arlington Masonic Temple. [7] [8]
In 1894, the town built a new Arlington High School across the street from its predecessor, at 20 Academy. That building has been repurposed for the Arlington Center for the Arts and other community organizations. [7]
The Arlington High School currently being replaced was designed by Howard B.S. Prescott. Construction began in 1914 and it opened in 1915 for grades 10–12. [9] The original building was later known as Fusco House; boys and girls were required to use separate entrances. Two later additions became known as Collomb House (1937) and Downs House (1964). Some parts of the school were renovated in 1981. [9]
Peirce Field, an outdoor field for football, soccer, track, field hockey, lacrosse, baseball and softball, was created by filling in "Cutter's Pond", which had been previously used for milling. Mill Brook still runs underneath the high school to this day. The field was renovated in 2004 due to toxin levels in the soil. This toxicity stemmed from a company located where the Department of Public Works is currently situated. A settlement was reached with the company to pay for the entire cleaning, capping, and renovation.
In 2010, Arlington High School attracted national attention after it declined a student's request to make reciting the Pledge of Allegiance mandatory. [10]
For many years, Arlington High's athletic teams were known as the Indians or the Red and Gray, the school's colors and the name of its fight song. For a time in the 1970s, "Trojans" was adopted as the nickname. But in the 1980s, the school settled on a name that had been used informally for decades, the Spy Ponders — named for the local Spy Pond and often shortened to the Ponders. [11]
While the school has not used the "Indians" name for decades, its school logo included a Native American man until 2020. The figure, modeled on The Menotomy Hunter , a Cyrus E. Dallin sculpture located in Arlington Center, was the subject of protest, leading to its replacement with a simple "A" logo. [12]
Arlington High fields teams in alpine skiing, baseball, basketball, cross country, e-sports, field hockey, football, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, indoor and outdoor track, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, volleyball, and wrestling. [13]
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