Massabesic High School

Massabesic High School
Massabesic High School
	Massabesic High School building
Address
	88 West Road; Waterboro , Maine 04087; United States
Coordinates	43°32′13″N70°43′28″W / 43.5370°N 70.7245°W
Information
Type	Public
Established	1969
School district	RSU 57
Principal	Ty Thurlow
Grades	9–12
Number of students	985 (2016–17)
Campus size	2 buildings
Campus type	suburban
Color(s)	Green, white, gold
Athletics	football, basketball, soccer, baseball, softball, wrestling, track and field, swimming, lacrosse, tennis, golf, cheerleading, field hockey, ice hockey, cross country, Special Olympics
Athletics conference	Western and Southern Maine depending on sport, class varies depends on sport
Mascot	Mustang horse
Website	highschool.rsu57.org/o/mhs

Last updated August 11, 2023

Massabesic High School, Pronounced "MASS-UH-BEE-SIK" is a public high school located in Waterboro, Maine, United States. The school is part of the RSU 57 school system, which serves six southwestern Maine towns with a combined population of approximately 22,000 residents: Alfred, Limerick, Lyman, Newfield, Shapleigh and Waterboro.

History

The name Massabesic came from a Native American language that was spoken in the area before Europeans settled in the area. Massabesic High School was first opened in 1969 with an enrollment of over nine hundred students within grades nine through twelve. Over the years, the school has had enrolled around 1000 students per school year.

East Building expansion

On August 29, 2007, Massabesic High School occupied the former Massabesic Junior High School building and declared it the East Building, expanding the high school and eliminating overcrowding problems.

The East Building contains the foreign language department and the NJROTC program. It is also the adult education center for RSU 57.

Key facts

MHS is a member of the MASC^[2]
Previous dramatic overcrowding (with some class sizes exceeding 30) was almost eliminated with the opening of the Freshman Academy in August 2007. This helped solve some of the overcrowding issues, but some classes still must be held in portable trailers.^[3]

Sports

Athletic

Massabesic High School's team name for all of its athletic teams is called the Massabesic Mustangs.

In 2000, the Massabesic Mustangs football team won the Class A state championship with a 12–0 season.^[4]

Non-athletic

Massabesic High school's Odyssey of the Mind team finished at the top of its division in the 2005 Odyssey of the Mind World Finals.^[5]

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References

↑ "Massabesic High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved February 19, 2019.
↑ MASC
↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-11-23. Retrieved 2010-06-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
↑ DeAngelis, Michael (November 10, 2005). "Football finalists on common ground". Keep Me Current. Archived from the original on September 8, 2014. Retrieved September 7, 2014.
↑ Stillman, Dan (June 23, 2005). "The End of an Odyssey". NASA. Retrieved September 7, 2014.

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[1] "Massabesic High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved February 19, 2019.

[2] MASC

[3] "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-11-23. Retrieved 2010-06-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[4] DeAngelis, Michael (November 10, 2005). "Football finalists on common ground". Keep Me Current. Archived from the original on September 8, 2014. Retrieved September 7, 2014.

[5] Stillman, Dan (June 23, 2005). "The End of an Odyssey". NASA. Retrieved September 7, 2014.

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