In 2014 the school and Bristol Community College (BCC) were planning an agreement regarding early college classes.[7]
In the Fall of 2024, The Durfee High School Marching Band won the USBands National Championships on November 3rd making it the first time in the School's history.[8]
Buildings
Postcard of previous Durfee school building
The school has been located in two buildings. From its opening in 1886 until the new building was completed in 1978 the school was located in the historic B.M.C. Durfee High School building on Rock Street, The iconic building, with its tall red-capped clock tower and red-domed observatory tower, overlooks the Taunton River and gives rise to the Fall River school district's seal, the school's athletics nickname, the Hilltoppers, their school colors of black and red (for the two roof colors), the school newspaper, the Hilltop, and their school alumni newspaper, the Chimes. The school also occupied the former Technical High School building across the street for several decades before moving.
Since 1978 the school has been located on Elsbree Street in the city's north end. Located in former swamp land, the school was built to modernize the district and alleviate the overcrowding at the former sites. The school also moved its athletic fields, which were nearby to the new school, to its new campus, and built the on-campus Luke Urban Field House, as the school had formerly used the Fall River Armory for indoor athletics. Since 2011, there has also been a modern recreation of the Durfee clock tower located at the new site. A new building opened in 2021 next to the old building.
Athletics
Durfee's athletic teams are known as the Hilltoppers, a nod to the location of the old school building atop the Highland neighborhood hills overlooking the Taunton River, and their school colors are black and red. As of the 2018–2019 school year, their school mascot is Rocky the Hilltopper. The school fight song is sung to the tune of the Notre Dame Victory March.
Brig. Gen. John J. Liset, USAF– (1938), chief of the USAF Section of the Joint Brazil-United States Military Commission, and chief of the Air Force Section, Military Assistance Advisory Group in Brazil[15]
Jerome Namias– (1928), prominent American meteorologist; former Chief of the Extended Forecast Division of the National Weather Service and was involved in the research of both the Dust Bowl and El Niño phenomena
William J. Porter– (1930), American diplomat; former ambassador to Canada, Saudi Arabia, and others
↑ "CPSS Directory of Schools". Public High Schools (CPSS) / Committee on Public Secondary Schools. Archived from the original on 2008-06-24. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
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