Taunton High School
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50 Williams Street Taunton, Massachusetts 02780 United States |
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| Coordinates | 41°54′05″N 71°04′18″W / 41.9015°N 71.0716°WCoordinates: 41°54′05″N 71°04′18″W / 41.9015°N 71.0716°W |
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| School type | Public |
| School district | Taunton Public Schools |
| Superintendent | Julie Hackett |
| Head Master | Matthew Mattos |
| Teaching staff | 313.7 (FTE) |
| Enrollment | 2,887 |
| Campus | Urban |
| Color(s) | Black & Orange |
| Athletics | MIAA - Division 1 |
| Athletics conference | Hockomock League |
| Nickname | Tigers |
| Rivals | Coyle-Cassidy, New Bedford, Durfee, Brockton |
| Average SAT scores | 495 verbal 501 math 475 writing 1471 total (2015-2016) |
| Newspaper | The Tauntonian |
| Website | THS |
Taunton High School (often abbreviated THS) located within a large, three-floor, interconnected, multi-block complex in the eastern section of the city of Taunton, Massachusetts. It is an urban public high school with an estimated average student enrollment of 3,000 students. It offers many student-oriented services, specialty academic programs, extra-curricular clubs, various after-school programs and a wide array of scholastic sports. Taunton High School is one of the largest high schools in New England, and is the 4th largest in Massachusetts, behind Brockton, Lowell, and New Bedford.
The main section of the building is divided into four different "houses" in which different classes are held, along with an associate headmaster’s office in each, and the main headmaster’s office in the middle. One of the houses in the main building complex once contained a public middle school, John F. Parker Middle School, until 2009 where, during a total renovation of the entire school, a fifth, exterior wing was added to the front of the school to house the displaced middle school students. Adjacent to school is the fine arts house, Robert H. Park Auditorium, which currently holds seating capacities up to 1,500 people, and beneath that the music rooms, dressing rooms, and storage. The school also shares a two-leveled gymnasium with Parker Middle School, where most of the indoor sports teams perform and a "pep rally" is held in the fall. The school's field house is one of the largest gymnasiums in New England, capable of holding both indoor track meets and basketball tournaments simultaneously.
Taunton High School is set on a large urban campus containing many buildings including four student academic houses. Each of the four academic houses help to separate the academic departments and are home to their own "house master". The campus also features a field house, 10,000 seat football stadium, eight athletics fields, ice rink, eight tennis courts, cross country trails, 1500-seat capacity multi-level auditorium, three LGI mini-auditoriums, student operated restaurant, TV and radio stations, school store, and a branch of Bristol County Savings Bank.
The current Taunton High School campus was state of the art for its time when it first opened in 1975, for it featured a modern greenhouse, pool, ice rink, planetarium, a modern public address system with a tone used for class-change signaling (in contrast to standard class-change bells) and telephones, and a high-tech (for 1975) TV studio. The academic houses and class rooms were carpeted from its opening in 1975 through the 2000 school year.
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