Amherst Regional High School (Amherst, Massachusetts)
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21 Mattoon Street Amherst, Massachusetts 01002 |
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| Coordinates | 42°22′51″N 72°30′46″W / 42.38083°N 72.51278°WCoordinates: 42°22′51″N 72°30′46″W / 42.38083°N 72.51278°W |
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| School type | Public High School Open enrollment |
| Founded | 1956 |
| Principal | Mark Jackson |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 1,300 |
| Area | Amherst, Pelham, Leverett, Shutesbury |
| Color(s) | Maroon and White |
| Mascot | Hurri the Cane |
| Team name | Hurricanes |
| Average SAT scores | 593 verbal 600 math 563 writing 1756 total (2015-2016) |
| Newspaper | The Graphic |
| Yearbook | The Goldbug |
| Budget | $30,957,738 total $18,688 per pupil (2013) |
| Website | http://arhs.arps.org/ |
Amherst Regional High School (ARHS) is a secondary school in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States, for students in grades 9–12. Together with Amherst Regional Middle School, it makes up the Amherst-Pelham Regional School District, which comprises the towns of Amherst, Pelham, Leverett, and Shutesbury, Massachusetts. Its official colors are maroon and white. ARHS's current principal is Mark Jackson.
Amherst Regional High School ran on a trimester system until switching to a semester system in 2016. The students used to take five courses per trimester: normally, three to four were academics, and one to two were electives. Most academic classes ran for two trimesters. They ran either straight through or were broken up by the winter trimester. The exception to this was some social studies and English courses that were a trimester each and some music and higher-level courses that ran for all three trimesters. Under the current semester system, student take seven classes per semester.
The school's sports teams are known as The Hurricanes.
The boys cross-country team is listed in the top 110 high schools in America, and has won many Western Massachusetts championships as recent as 2013. The boys cross-country team's most recent victory tied them with the most Western Mass championships at 16.
ARHS is one of many high schools in Massachusetts with a nationally ranked Ultimate program. The boys' and girls' Ultimate teams have both won the national championship several times; including the girl's program winning the national championship five consecutive times. The program hosts the annual Amherst Invitational Ultimate Tournament which pits 30 high school teams from across the country in one of the oldest and largest high school tournaments in the USA.
The 1992–1993 girls' basketball team inspired the book In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle by Madeleine Blais.
The Football team won the 1999 Massachusetts High School Super Bowl by defeating Southbridge 27-7. It was the first Super Bowl win for Amherst in 25 years.
The boys soccer team won the first Western Massachusetts Division I Championship in school history in 2012. That team reached the 2012 State Finals, losing to Needham 1-0. The boys soccer team won the program's second championship in 2014 after beating West Springfield 1-0. The program won its third title in 5 years in 2016.
ARHS is one of the few schools in the nation to offer a Wilderness Survival program. The class meets after school from January through June, and covers subjects such as orienteering, wilderness first aid, emergency shelters, wild edibles, and emergency fire-building.
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