Apponequet Regional High School
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| Principal | Mr. Gary Lincoln |
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| Asst. Principal | Mr. Chris Costa |
| Established | 1959 |
| School type | Public |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Student body | Coeducational |
| Opened | September 21, 1959 |
| Location | Lakeville, Mass., USA |
| Enrollment 1 | 859 |
| Faculty 1 | 83 |
| Campus | Rural |
| Colors | Royal blue and White |
| Mascot | Lakers |
| Newspaper | Laker Pride |
| Yearbook | Polarion |
| Homepage | www.freelake.mec.edu/Apponequet |
Apponequet Regional High School opened in 1959 and serves secondary education students from the towns of Freetown and Lakeville, Massachusetts.
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School snapshot
Apponequet Regional High School
100 Howland Road
Lakeville, MA 02347
Phone: (508) 763-5140 / (508) 947-2660
History
Many small towns in Massachusetts would send its older students to other towns' high schools on a tuition basis to avoid the cost of building and maintaining their own. As towns with high schools grew, they became unable to provide tuition spaces. 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 the others did not. 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. The vote in Freetown was 140-22 in favor, and in Lakeville 160-90, also in favor.
Freetown appropriated $20,347 and Lakeville appropriated $18,152 for the preliminary planning of the school. Land for the school was given by Paul Leonard and Frank Mello on Howland Road in Lakeville. On September 10, 1957, Israel T. Almy, the architect used for the original Freetown Elementary School (http://www.freelake.mec.edu/FES/), was selected as the architect for the school. Charles Sawyer was chosen to be the first principal for the school.
Apponequet Regional Jr./Sr. High School opened on September 21, 1959, with an initial enrollment of 610 students in grades 7 through 12. It originally also housed a vocational school, the Apponequet Regional Vocational High School, which admitted students in grades 9-12. Phased out in the early 1990s in favor of sending students to Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School in Rochester, the vocational program at Apponequet remains in several independent living classes and a woodshop.
With the building of the George R. Austin Middle School (http://www.freelake.mec.edu/AIS/) in 1972, Apponequet became a senior-only high school, enrolling grades 9-12 in both the academic school and the vocational school.
Major additions and renovations were completed in 1972 (8 classrooms), 1989 (9 classrooms, a new Library/Media Center, and a TV studio/choir room) and 2000 (two classrooms, an Art Room, a Lecture Hall/choir room, and serious renovations to other parts of the building).
For more details, see also: Apponequet Regional High School > Administration > Short History of Apponequet (http://www.freelake.mec.edu/Apponequet/admin/hist.html)
Sports
In the mid-to-late 1960s the school belonged to the South Shore League. It later removed itself to the Mayflower League for the 1970s and early 1980s and finally joined the South Coast Conference upon its founding in 1986. A recent renovation also updated the athletic complex, including the football field (Griffith Field), the gymnasium, several baseball fields, a softball field, eight tennis courts, and provisions for soccer and field hockey. The school also boasts a championship swim team, which practices at the former George R. Austin Middle School.
The school's traditional Thanksgiving Day football rival is Old Rochester Regional High School in Mattapoisett.
External links
- Apponequet Regional High School > Home (http://www.freelake.mec.edu/Apponequet) (Official Site)
- Apponequet.com (http://www.apponequet.com/) (Alumni Site)