Concord-Carlisle High School

Concord-Carlisle Regional High School
Concord-Carlisle Regional High School
Location
Concord, MA United States
Information
Type	Public
Motto	Commitment, Citizenship, Harmony, Scholarship
Established	1852
School district	Concord-Carlisle Regional
Principal	Michael Mastrullo
Grades	9–12
Enrollment	1300
Campus size	80 acres (0.324 km²)
Color(s)	Maroon and white
Athletics	56 teams
Athletics conference	Dual County League
Mascot	The Patriot
Nickname	Patriots
Average SAT scores	616 verbal 635 math 605 writing 1856 total (2015-2016)
Website	concordcarlisle.net

Concord-Carlisle Regional High School (CCHS) is a public high school located in Concord, Massachusetts, USA, 17 miles (27 km) northwest of Boston. The school serves grades 9–12, and as part of the Concord-Carlisle Regional School District, has students from both Concord and Carlisle, Massachusetts. The school also has a notable portion of minority students from Boston (particularly Dorchester, Roxbury and Mattapan) enrolled as part of the METCO program. Concord-Carlisle Regional High School is widely regarded as one of the top public high schools in the state, with the September 2009 issue of Boston magazine rating it the number one public high school in cost efficiency and third in academic performance in eastern Massachusetts.

Class subjects include the normal core subjects of English, mathematics, science and social studies, but a number of elective studies are offered as well, including programming, music and photography.

In social studies or English, a broad course selection is offered. CCHS chooses not to offer AP classes in the humanities in order to allow for a more flexible curriculum, but students may choose to take the AP tests. For students' freshman and sophomore years, they are required to take world cultures and US history respectively, neither of which are levelled classes. The English department offers classes on topics such as rhetoric and debate, American literature, British literature, contemporary literature, world literature and black literature. The social studies department curriculum includes classes on ancient Greece, ancient Rome and 20th century United States history, as well as psychology, economics, sociology, world religions and Russian history.