Apponequet Regional High School
| Apponequet Regional High School | |
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| Address | |
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100 Howland Road Lakeville, Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 41°47′33″N 70°58′58″W / 41.79250°N 70.98278°WCoordinates: 41°47′33″N 70°58′58″W / 41.79250°N 70.98278°W |
| Information | |
| Type |
Public Coeducational Open enrollment |
| Opened | 1959 |
| School district | Freetown-Lakeville Public Schools |
| Principal | Dr. Barbara Starkie |
| Faculty | 83As of 2004[update] |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 747 (2016) |
| Campus type | Rural |
| Color(s) | Navy Blue, White & Red |
| Athletics | MIAA - Division 3 |
| Athletics conference | South Coast Conference |
| Mascot | Lakers |
| Accreditation | The New England Association of Schools & Colleges |
| Average SAT scores | 523 verbal 518 math 505 writing 1546 total (2015-2016) |
| Publication | Alembic |
| Newspaper | Laker Pride |
| Yearbook | Polarion |
| Budget | $10,920 per pupil (2010) |
| Communities served | Freetown, Assonet, and Lakeville |
| Website | https://web.archive.org/web/20070627033333/http://www.freelake.org/ARHS/ |
Apponequet Regional High School opened September 21, 1959, and serves secondary academic education students from the towns of Freetown, Assonet, and Lakeville, Massachusetts.
In the early 20th century many small towns in Massachusetts sent their older students to other cities' or towns' high schools on a tuition basis to avoid the cost of building and maintaining their own secondary facility. As towns with high schools grew, they became unable to provide tuition spaces, needing the space for their own students. This created the need for more high schools, as tuition contracts slowly began to expire and not be renewed.
The communities of Freetown, Berkley, Carver, Lakeville, and Rochester, Massachusetts formed a planning committee for a regional high school, as each town needed a location for its secondary school students. Carver dropped from the board in 1955 after forming a region with Plymouth, and the remaining towns voted. Freetown and Lakeville approved the school, while Berkley and Rochester did not. Berkley would go on to form a tuition agreement with Somerset, and Rochester formed a region with Marion and Mattapoisett (Old Rochester Regional).
On April 8, 1957, town meetings were held in Freetown and Lakeville on the issue of the two towns building and operating a high school together. The vote in Freetown was 140-22 in favor, and in Lakeville 160-90, also in favor.
Freetown appropriated $20,347 for the preliminary planning of the school, and Lakeville appropriated $18,152 as its share. Land for the school was given by Paul Leonard and Frank Mello on Howland Road in Lakeville. On September 10, 1957, Israel T. Almy, a Fall River architect used for the original Freetown Consolidated Elementary School, was selected as the architect for the school. Charles Sawyer was chosen to be the first principal for the school.
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