Falmouth High School (Massachusetts)

Falmouth High School
Location
874 Gifford Street Ext. Falmouth, MA 02540 United States
Information
Type	Public high school Open enrollment[1]
Established	1973
School district	Falmouth
Principal	Mary Gans
Teaching staff	65.64 (FTE)[2]
Grades	9–12
Enrollment	841 (2018–19)[2]
Student to teacher ratio	12.81[2]
Color(s)	Maroon & White
Athletics	MIAA – Division 2
Athletics conference	Atlantic Coast League
Nickname	Clippers
Website	School website

Falmouth High School (FHS) is a public high school located in the town of Falmouth, Massachusetts, United States. The school serves roughly 870 students in grades 9–12. Over the past few years, Falmouth High School has undergone major renovations. Up until 1973, the school was named Lawrence High School and located at what is now Lawrence Junior High School. Falmouth High School is located at 874 Gifford Street Ext. The school's mascot is the Clipper and the school colors are maroon and white.

History

Up until 1973, the high school had been known as Lawrence High School for almost a century. The presence of a high school in the town of Falmouth dates back to the late 1800s, but the current Falmouth High School was only established in 1973. The name change was applied in order to more closely identify the high school with the town of Falmouth and give the school a community-based identity, and to disassociate from the similarly named Lawrence High School located in Lawrence, Massachusetts in an effort to squash the confusion between the two similarly named schools.

Students from the neighboring town of Mashpee attended Falmouth High School for many years, until the town of Mashpee established their own separate high school in 1996.

In recent years, Falmouth has undergone several periods of major renovation, which ran into the dozens of millions of dollars. These renovations came under intense scrutiny at several points and were plagued by constant setbacks, which included poor construction and architecture, massively exceeding the proposed budget, exceeding the proposed completion date, and several breach-of-contract suits against the school committee, architects, contractors and firms involved. Initially, the project was supposed to cost $67 million and take two years to complete, but the project ended up costing $87 million, $20 million over budget, and took almost six years to complete.^[4]

Athletics

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These are some recent accomplishments of Falmouth athletic teams.

• Boys' Hockey – State Champions (1979, 1981, 1982, 1996)
• Boys' Hockey – State Finalists (1983)
• Boys' Hockey – Super 8 Finalists (1994)
• Boys' Hockey – EMass Regional Finalists (1980)
• Girls' Hockey – State Champions (2015)
• Football – State Champions (1947, 2016)
• Football – State Finalists (1994)
• Football – State Playoff Qualifier (1994, 2015, 2016)
• Boys' Basketball – State Finalists (2009)
• Boys' Basketball – Eastern Massachusetts Champions (2009)
• Boys' Tennis – State Champions (2007)

Alumni

• Alicia M. Soderberg, astrophysicist, Assistant Professor at Harvard University^[5]
• John Gumbleton, (1985), naval officer
• Jamaal Branch, (1999), former NFL player
• Joseph Rago (2001),^[6] former Wall Street Journal journalist
• Steve Cishek (c. 2004), former MLB pitcher

References

Coordinates: 41°35′24.8″N 70°36′27.8″W / 41.590222°N 70.607722°W / 41.590222; -70.607722