Blackstone-Millville Regional High School

Blackstone-Millville Regional High School
Location
175 Lincoln Street Blackstone , MA 01504
Coordinates	42°01′49″N71°32′31″W / 42.030212°N 71.54188°W / 42.030212; -71.54188
Information
Type	Public high school
School district	Blackstone-Millville Regional School District
Principal	Jill Foulis
Faculty	39.3 (FTE) [1]
Grades	8-12
Enrollment	534 (as of 2024-2025) [1]
Student to teacher ratio	13.6 [1]
Color(s)	Purple & Gold
Team name	Chargers
Website	School website

Blackstone-Millville Regional High School is a high school in Blackstone, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States, operating as part of the Blackstone-Millville Regional School District. It serves both the town of Blackstone and its western neighbor, Millville.

History

The first high school in Blackstone was built in 1868 on School Street. It was replaced in 1920 with a new high school on Main Street. The Main Street building was expanded in 1938. As population in the area grew, regionalization was discussed as a way to provide a new high school for Blackstone and Millville. The Blackstone-Millville Regional School District, which regionalized grades 7-12, was approved by voters in both towns in 1967 and charged with planning and establishing a regional junior-senior high school to be located on Lincoln Street in Blackstone. ^[2]

Following the sale of school district construction bonds, ^[3] Blackstone-Millville Junior-Senior High School opened its doors in September 1970 serving students in grades 7 through 12 and the former high school building was retained by the district for use as an intermediate elementary school.

Blackstone and Millville maintained separate K-6 school committees until 1982, when school budget cuts resulting from Massachusetts Proposition 2½ going into effect pushed the towns to work out a plan to modify the regional district to establish a K-12 regional district, approved by voters at Special Town Meetings in April 1982. ^[4] The Blackstone-Millville Regional School District began operating as a K-12 regional district on July 1, 1982. When Frederick W. Hartnett Middle School opened in 2003, the high school realigned to serve students in grades 9 through 12.

School demographics

• The data includes eighth grade students. Number of eighth grade students = 111.

According to Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education annual statistics, for the 2024-2025 academic year, the demographic enrollment distributions for race, gender and grade level at Blackstone-Millville Regional High School are as follows:

Total number of enrolled students: 534
Total number of full-time equivalent educators: 39.3
Therefore, the student to teacher ratio for this school is 13.6:1

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity (2024-2025) ^[1]

Race	Enrolled Pupils*	% of District
African American	13	2.4%
Asian	7	1.3%
Hispanic	79	14.8%
Native American	0	0.0%
White	414	77.5%
Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander	0	0.0%
Multi-Race, Non-Hispanic	21	3.9%
Total	534	100%

* Approximate number of enrolled pupils is calculated based on total number of students in district, multiplied by reported percentage, and rounded to nearest whole student.

Enrollment by gender (2024-2025) ^[1]

Gender	Enrolled pupils	Percentage
Female	256	47.94%
Male	275	51.5%
Non-binary	3	0.56%
Total	534	100%

Enrollment by Grade ^[1]

Grade	Pupils Enrolled	Percentage
9	119	22.28%
10	108	20.22%
11	103	19.29%
12	90	16.85%
SP*	3	0.56%
Total	534	100%

* SP = Special Education Beyond Grade 12 ^[5]

Extracurricular activities

Athletics

The Blackstone-Millville Regional Chargers compete in the Dual Valley Conference.

The boys' cross-country team won 265 consecutive dual meets between 1974 and 1993, ^[6] a national record that stood until 2004. ^[7]

Marching band

The Blackstone-Millville Regional High School Chargers Marching Band has traveled throughout North America for national competitions and parades, including the National Cherry Blossom Festival, ^[8] the Rose Parade, ^[9] and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Championship titles won by the Marching Chargers include:

• Group IV A "Silver" United States Scholastic Band Association: 2000, 2001 ^[10]
• New England Scholastic Band Association winter percussion: 2013
• Bands of America Regional Class A Championship in Towson, MD: 2013
• Division 4 Open USBands National Championships: 2015, ^[11] 2016, ^{[12] [13]} 2019. ^[14]
• Division 3 Open USBands National Championships 2021 ^[15]

Notable people

Notable alumni

• Jennifer Lanctot O'Neill (1986), mile champion at the 1991 NCAA indoor championships, ^[16] Boston University's first three-time female All-American
• Tim McNamara (1914), Major League Baseball pitcher ^[17]

Notable faculty

• Ambrose Kennedy, U.S. Representative from Rhode Island ^[18]
• Hurley Silbor, Massachusetts State Baseball Coaches' Hall of Fame inductee ^{[19] [20]}

References

1. "Enrollment Data (2024-25)". profiles.doe.mass.edu. Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Retrieved August 5, 2025.
2. Buckley, Mike (April 2, 2016). "Reorganizing the Region [Part 1]". Medium.
3. "Bonds bid & bought". Boston Globe. April 1, 1970. p. 23. Underwriters led by First National Bank of Boston apparently submitted the best bid for $4.3 million of Blackstone-Millville school district building bonds.
4. Buckley, Mike (April 7, 2016). "Reorganizing the Region [Part 2]". Medium.
5. "Profiles Help-About the Data". www.profiles.doe.mass.edu. Retrieved September 26, 2019.
6. Burt, Chris (September 15, 1993). "Streak is ended in Blackstone". Boston Globe. p. 63. In 1991, the squad broke the national record for consecutive dual meet victories at 251, and as of yesterday, that streak was still alive at 265.
7. Clayton, Scott (October 1, 2004). "CBA gets record 266th consecutive win". Central New Jersey Home News Tribune. p. C8.
8. "Manchester Native Is Prize Band Director". Daily Messenger. Canandaigua, NY. May 8, 1975. p. 15. Thomas R. Hessney . . . last month led the Blackstone-Millville Charger marching bad to a first place victory in the "big bands" category of the annual Cherry Blossom Festival competition, Washington, D. C.
9. Sanchez, Raymond (January 1, 1988). "Warming Up for the Parade in Pasadena". Los Angeles Times.
10. "High School Marching Band Score Reports". Marching.com.
11. Sweetnam, Samuel (February 5, 2016). "HS Championships 2015 Recap". Halftime Magazine.
12. "BMR Chargers take home second win at USBands Championship". Valley Breeze. Lincoln, RI. November 16, 2016.
13. Moneymaker, Emily (February 8, 2017). "2016 Fall Championships Recap". Halftime Magazine.
14. Roberts, Nicole (February 7, 2020). "2019 Fall Championships Recap". Halftime Magazine.
15. "Blackstone-Millville Music Association: 2021-2022 Year in Review" (PDF). www.bmmamusic.org. July 2022. Retrieved February 1, 2025.
16. Monahan, Bob (May 24, 1991). "Lanctot makes a fast recovery". Boston Globe. p. 85. Lanctot, who attended Blackstone-Millville High School. . .
17. Sawyer, Ford (January 13, 1925). "Tim McNamara in his home town is like the "Pied Piper"". p. 18. . . . he entered Blackstone High School, receiving his diploma from that institution in 1914.
18. Hennessy, M.E. (December 29, 1921). "New Englanders in the Globe Spotlight: Monsieur Kennedy of Rhode Island". Boston Globe. p. 14. . . . shortly after Mr Kennedy's graduation from college he was chosen principal of the Blackstone High School.
19. "3 baseball coaches to join Hall of Fame". Boston Globe. January 8, 1991. p. 30.
20. Hamwey, Ken (April 21, 2013). "Yesterday's Hero: Silbor deserving of more recognition". MetroWest Daily News. Framingham, MA.

External links

• Blackstone-Millville Music Association