Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School

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Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School
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Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School
251 Stonehaven Road

Fall River
,
(Bristol County)
,
Massachusetts
02720

United States
Coordinates 41°41′54″N71°7′22″W / 41.69833°N 71.12278°W / 41.69833; -71.12278
Information
Type Public High School
Open enrollment [1]
Established1912;112 years ago (1912)
School districtGreater Fall River Regional Vocational Technical District
SuperintendentBrian Bentley [2]
PrincipalLeslie Weckesser [2]
Teaching staff142.75 (FTE) [3]
Grades9-12
Enrollment1,412 (2022-23) [3]
Student to teacher ratio9.89 [3]
Color(s)Black & Orange   
Athletics conference MIAA Mayflower League
MascotBengal
Rivals Greater New Bedford, Bishop Connolly, Bristol-Plymouth
Budget$27,757,430 total
$20,084 per pupil
(2016) [4]
Communities served Fall River, Swansea, Westport, Somerset
Website dimanregional.org

Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School is a public vocational high school located in Fall River, Massachusetts. The high school serves a regional school district comprising the city of Fall River, and the surrounding towns of Somerset, Swansea and Westport. The school has an enrollment of over 1,400 students and offers vocational-technical education in 18 different programs. [5]

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The school also includes the Diman Regional School of Practical Nursing, offering post-graduate education in the field of practical nursing. [6]

Diman received national attention in January 2018, when then-United States Representative Joe Kennedy III gave the Democratic Party's response to Donald Trump’s 2018 State of the Union Address from the school’s automotive shop. [7] Massachusetts’s 4th congressional district, which Kennedy represented at the time, includes the school.

History

The school was founded in Fall River as Diman Vocational School in 1912 by Reverend John Diman, a then Episcopal minister who had previously started Diman School for Boys (later renamed St. George's School) in Middletown, Rhode Island. [8] Rev. Diman later converted to Catholicism, became a Benedictine monk, and helped found Portsmouth Abbey School in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.

The Diman Regional Charter was established in 1963 to expand the area of the school's enrollment to include the surrounding towns of Somerset, Swansea and Westport, Massachusetts. The current campus on Stonehaven Road in Fall River opened in 1968.

Vocational programs

Diman currently offers 18 vocational shop programs to students, which are as follows: [5] [9]

Notable alumni

The below are considered distinguished alumni of Diman and are members of Diman's "Alumni Hall of Fame": [10]

Athletics

After an almost 30-year hiatus, Diman re-introduced football to the school in 2005. Diman's athletic teams compete at the Division 3 level of Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association athletics, and at Division 3 for football. They compete in the Mayflower League, which is the largest athletics conference in Massachusetts, with 18 schools.

In 2013, the Diman football team won the Mayflower League Championship for the first time in school history. In the process, they also qualified for the MIAA Division 6 State Playoffs. The Bengals won their first round match-up against Upper Cape, but eventually lost the following week to a powerful Millis/Hopedale cooperative team.

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References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-04-12. Retrieved 2017-04-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. 1 2 "Contact Us / Staff Contacts". dimanregional.org.
  3. 1 2 3 "Search for Public Schools - Diman Regional Vocational Technical High (250548502269)". National Center for Education Statistics . Institute of Education Sciences . Retrieved October 23, 2020.
  4. ↑ "Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education - per Pupil Expenditures Statewide Report".
  5. 1 2 "About / About Diman". www.dimanregional.org. Retrieved 2022-07-28.
  6. ↑ Diman Regional School Of Practical Nursing [ permanent dead link ]
  7. ↑ "Rep. Kennedy highlights Fall River's resilience, work ethic in rebuttal to President Trump". Herald News, Massachusetts. February 1, 2018. Retrieved February 3, 2018.
  8. ↑ "Education: Father Diman". Time . June 3, 1946. Archived from the original on February 19, 2011.
  9. ↑ "Vocational / Homepage". www.dimanregional.org. Retrieved 2022-07-28.
  10. ↑ "Hall of Fame / Overview". dimanregional.org.
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