Andover High School (Massachusetts)

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Andover High School

Andover High School
Address
80 Shawsheen Road
Andover, Massachusetts 01810
 United States
Coordinates 42°39′26″N 71°09′18″W / 42.6571°N 71.1551°W / 42.6571; -71.1551Coordinates: 42°39′26″N 71°09′18″W / 42.6571°N 71.1551°W / 42.6571; -71.1551
Information
Type Public
School district Andover Public Schools
Superintendent Dr. Sheldon H. Berman
Principal Mr. Philip T. Conrad
Grades 9-12
Gender Coeducational
Number of students 1,738
Student to teacher ratio 13:1
Color(s) Navy Blue and Gold         
Athletics conference Merrimack Valley Conference (MVC)
Mascot Golden Warriors
Team name Andover Golden Warriors
Rival Central Catholic High School
Average SAT scores 585 verbal
586 math
567 writing
1738 total (2014-2015)[1]
Newspaper Warrior Weekly
Website http://www.aps1.net/AHS/index.htm

Andover High School (formerly Punchard High School) is a high school in the town of Andover, Massachusetts. Andover High School's principal is Mr. Philip T. Conrad. It is the only public high school in the Andover Public Schools district.[2]

Campus

The school has a Media Center/Library located in the center of the school and a cafeteria located toward the north-west side of the school. Additionally, the building houses two gymnasiums, which are used as Andover town voting facilities. The largest gymnasium is an add-on to the school building made after the completion of the main construction.

The Collins Center (named after J. Everett Collins, a local choir conductor who worked at the school for many years) serves as the school's theatre. Built in 1983, the Collins Center is separated from the rest of the school, annexed to one end of the high school opposite the gymnasiums. The high school band, Choral, Drama, and Orchestra Departments use Collins Center facilities. The Collins Center is home to the marching band, concert band, all-town orchestra, concert choir, chamber choir, show choir, and drama guild. Some of the many productions that have taken place at the Collins Center by the AHS Drama Guild include Rent: School Edition (2010), The Farnsworth Invention (2010), Sound of Music (2009), Brighton Beach Memoirs (2009), A Chorus Line (2008), and Titanic: The Musical (2007).

Student life

Andover High School offers a variety of activities for students. There are over 60 clubs that meet after school ranging from dance to UNICEF, Amigos Unidos to academic clubs.

Sports are also offered at Andover High School for both men and women. Offered year round, the sports vary from Track and Field to Swimming and Diving as well as Volleyball and much more. The teams compete in the Merrimack Valley Conference. The teams, whose mascot is a golden eagle, are styled as the Golden Warriors.

The Andover boys' basketball team received press in November 2011 for a sexually explicit hazing scandal.[3]

Demographics

Andover High School, as of the 2012–2013 school year, has a population of 1,799 students in grades 9 through 12.[4]

As a reflection of the town of Andover, the racial distribution of the school is:[5]

There are a total of 132 full-time teachers on staff, creating a student-teacher ratio of 13 to 1.

Notable alumni

References

  1. ↑ http://profiles.doe.mass.edu/state_report/sat_perf.aspx
  2. ↑ "Andover Public Schools - Schools". Retrieved May 8, 2015.
  3. ↑ Andover students ‘disgusted’ by hazing incident Accessed 2011-11-30
  4. ↑ Andover High School Enrollments Rates Accessed 2009-04-26
  5. ↑ Andover Highschool Student Demographics Accessed 2009-04-26
  6. ↑ Brian Messenger (June 26, 2008). "Keys to the town for Michael Chiklis: Andover's own TV bad boy to be honored tomorrow". The Andover Townsman Online. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
  7. ↑ Tim Lima (July 31, 2014). "Classmates cheer kind, hard-working Arthur T. Demoulas; Embattled Market Basket ex-CEO called 'just one of the boys'". The Andover Townsman Online. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
  8. ↑ Barry Scanlon. "After a brilliant amateur career, Andover's Rob Oppenheim has set his sights on the PGA Tour". North Shore Golf and Tennis. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
  9. ↑ "Andover’s Ryan Hanigan Signs Extension With Reds". CBS Boston. March 14, 2011.

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