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Dartmouth High School (Massachusetts)

Coordinates: 41°35′39.32″N 70°58′39.80″W / 41.5942556°N 70.9777222°W / 41.5942556; -70.9777222
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Dartmouth High School
Address
Map
555 Bakerville Road

Dartmouth
,
Massachusetts
02748

United States
Coordinates41°35′39.32″N 70°58′39.80″W / 41.5942556°N 70.9777222°W / 41.5942556; -70.9777222
Information
TypePublic
High School
Open enrollment[1]
Motto"One Dartmouth"
Established1902
StatusOpen
School districtDartmouth Public School District
SuperintendentJune Saba-Maguire
PrincipalRyan Shea
Faculty74.56 (on FTE basis)[2]
Grades9–12
Age range14–20
Enrollment979 (2022–23)[4]
Student to teacher ratio13.13
LanguageEnglish
Schedulehttps://www.dartmouth.school//cms/lib/MA02213179/Centricity/Domain/486/2018-2019%20%20Lunch%20Schedule.pdf
Colour(s)Green & White    
Song"Glory to Dartmouth"
AthleticsMIAA – Division 2
Athletics conferenceSoutheast Conference
NicknameIndians
RivalFairhaven, Bishop Stang, New Bedford
NewspaperThe Spectrum
YearbookThe Pathfinder
Communities servedTown of Dartmouth
Feeder schoolsDartmouth Middle School
Websitewww.dartmouth.school/dhs

Dartmouth High School is a four-year public high school serving grades 9 to 12, located in the southern half of Dartmouth, Massachusetts, United States.[5]

As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 979 students and 76.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 13.5 to 1.[6]

History

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Origins

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The school began in 1902 on Russell's Mills Road in what is now the Salt-Marsh Pottery. By the 1930s the school had moved to a building on Slocum Road (referred to as the Elmer Poole School), which is now used as the town hall. In 1955 a new school was built next door, on the corner of Hawthorne Street, with the building being expanded twice, in 1965 and 1981. In 2003, the school was moved to its new location at the end of Bakerville Road, at the junction of Russells Mills Road, on the former farmland of the King family, with the former high school now being used as the middle school.[7]

Crime

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In 1993 during a social studies class, a student was stabbed to death by classmates who barged into the classroom armed with baseball bats, Billy clubs, and knives. Three students aged 15 and 16 were charged with first-degree murder of Jason Robinson.[8][9]

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For much of its early history, Dartmouth High School (DHS) had several assorted designs associated with its mascot of an Indian. In 1973, Clyde Andrews, a member of the DHS class of 1974 and a member of regional Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) redesigned and formalized the logo to its current design. This was to more accurately reflect the eastern woodland Indians that had roots in the region of Old Dartmouth.[7] This design was quickly adopted to represent not just the school, but Dartmouth as a whole.

Current logo used by Dartmouth High School

The use of high school Native American mascots has been a topic of nationwide debate, leading to regional controversy over the school's logo in early 2022. With increasing contention, the question of whether to keep the Indian or replace it with a more appropriate alternative emerged. Those in support of the logo argued that the logo was more than a simple design, but an icon. It was pointed out that no iconography of the Indian was placed to where it could be stepped on and thus demeaned, along with the fact that when it was worn by sports players and members of the community alike, they "were elevated to a higher standard, to lose with grace and win with dignity." Those against the logo believed that the image's use as a sports icon had negatively affected the people of the Wampanoag tribe, and downplayed the current and former challenges Indigenous peoples had and continued to face.[10] The issue was to be settled in early April 2022, where a vote would be held among the community to decide the fate of the Logo. With a split of 4,048 to 969, one of the largest voter turnouts in the history of the town, the community overwhelmingly advocated to keep the logo. This was later commemorated on April 25 at the annual school committee meeting.[11]

Music Department

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The music department at DHS has a long history of success and is nationally well renowned. The music department includes the marching band, concert band, and jazz band, as well as the orchestra, chamber orchestra, chorus, and a cappella group Harmonix. It also includes the Winter color guard program and the Winter percussion program.[12] All of which are finically aided through the Dartmouth School Music Association, or DSMA, through its providing of vital funds, scholarships, and support insuring the continued survival and growth of all of these programs.[13]

Marching Band

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Year Theme Repertoire NESBA Score USSBA / USBands Score NESBA Placement USSBA / USBands Placement
2008 Winter Solstice Windsprints by Richard Saucedo and October by Eric Whitacre. 98.9 98.275 1st 1st
2009 Gift of Music Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland 96.70 97.813 2nd 1st
2010 Ritual 160 BPM from the film Angels & Demons / The Witch and the Saint by Steven Reineke 97.60 98.550 1st 1st
2011 Twisted Asphalt Cocktail by John Mackey / Noisy Wheels of Joy by Eric Whitacre / Arabesque by Samuel R. Hazo 98.40 98.225 1st 1st
2012 Blown Away Urban Dances Suite: I. Ben misurato by Zdeněk Mácal / Windrider by B.J. Brooks / Velocity by Larry Neeck 96.7 96.538 1st 2nd
2013 Paris An American in Paris by George Gershwin / Blue Shades by Frank Ticheli / Transition and Ballad / Bonaparte by Otto M. Schwarz N/A 96.6 N/A 1st
2014 Voodoo Strange Humors by John Mackey / Shadow Rituals by Michael Markowski / Chant Rituals by Elliot Del Borgo 99.1 97.863 1st 2nd
2015 Into the Hive The Wasps by Ralph Vaughan Williams / Flight of the Bumblebee by Nikolai Rimsky- Korsakov 98.0 97.125 1st 2nd
2016 Into the Light of Spring Snow Caps by Richard Saucedo / Remedy by Adele / Into the Light by Jay Bocook 98.9 97.063 1st 1st
2017 Farewell My Lovely Harlem Nocturne by Earle Hagen and Dick Rogers / 221b Baker Street by Patrick Gowers / Marlowe's Theme from the film Farewell My Lovely / Ignition by Todd Stalter 99.1 98.350 1st 1st
2018 The Rainforest Dance of the New World by Dana Wilson / Fly to Paradise by Eric Whitacre / Whirlybird by Todd Stalter 99.6 98.075 1st 1st
2019 The Witching Hour The Witch and the Saint by Steven Reineke / Pampeana No. 3, Op. 24 by Alberto Ginastera 98.5 98.575 1st 1st
2020
Marching Band Percussion
Birdland Behind the Mask
Marching Band Birdland by Weather Report
Percussion Compositions from The Mask of Zorro
N/A
Marching Band 94.8
Percussion 98.5
N/A 1st†
2021 Thorns and Petals Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov) by Rimsky-Korsakov / Kiss from a Rose by Seal (musician) / El Tango de Roxanne from Moulin Rouge! 99.2 98.0 1st 1st
2022 Forgotten The Ecstasy of Gold by Ennio Morricone / The Magnificent Seven - Main Theme by Elmer Bernstein / Sonoran Desert Holiday by Ron Nelson / Danzon No. 2 by Arturo Márquez[14] 99.2 97.7 1st 1st
  • † = These scores are from the USBands Virtual Grand Finale.

The band is under the direction of Ian Flint (was under the direction of William Kingsland up until the 2020 school year) and has been a Division 5 winner of NESBA Championships in 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022 and Division 6 in 2019. In 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, and 2022; the band has won first place at USBands (formerly USSBA) National Championships in Annapolis, Maryland (2008–2011) and East Rutherford, New Jersey (2012–present).[15] The band also began competing in Bands of America circuits in 2022 by winning the New Jersey Regional Championship with an 83.600.[16] Additionally, they have many other titles in NESBA, where the marching band holds the highest score in NESBA history, 99.6,[15] received in 2018 with the field show entitled "The Rainforest”. They also held the previous records of 99.1 scored in both 2014 and 2017. In USBands they tied the highest score of 98.575 that was set in 2008. The Band also holds many titles at MICCA, and formerly in EMBA. The group has also performed at the 1996 Tournament of Roses Parade, as well as several other festivals and Magic Music Days at the Walt Disney World Resort. The band and percussion performed their own shows virtually in 2020.[17]

Winter Percussion

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Year Theme Placement Score
1998 Scenes from Gotham City 1st 98.350
1999 Scenes from West Side Story 1st 97.250
2000 Dances of the New World 2nd 96.100
2001 Passion, Grace & Fire 3rd 94.850
2002 For the Boys: A Tribute to the USO 3rd 92.600
2003 Wild Life 1st† 96.8†
2004 Young Guns Head West 3rd 93.100
2005 Duality 3rd 92.600
2006 What It Means To Be Human 2nd 94.000
2007 The Turning Point 2nd 94.800
2008 Mightier Than The Sword: Modern Day Gladiators 1st 96.750
2009 The Garden 1st 97.988
2010 Conviction 3rd 95.500
2011 The Siren's Song 2nd 95.813
2012 Evolved 2nd 96.825
2013 Stealing Fire 4th 94.288
2014 Let Them Eat Cake: Marie Antionette's Scandalous Life 1st 98.238
2015 Speakeasy 3rd 95.588
2016 Revolution 5th 93.863
2017 Emotional Roller Coaster 5th 94.600
2018 Out of the Box 2nd 97.188
2019 All In - A Dance With Addiction 4th 94.888
2020 The Web N/A‡ N/A‡
2021 The Web 2.0 N/A N/A
2022 The Curse of Medusa 3rd 97.525
2023 The Raven: From the Desk of Edgar Allan Poe 6th 94.688
2024 Gallery X: Where Art Comes to Life 4th 95.700
  • † = The group did not attend WGI World Championships and only attended NESBA Finals.
  • ‡ = The group did not attend WGI World Championships or NESBA Finals.

The Dartmouth High Winter Percussion performs in Winter Guard International where they consistently placed in the top 3 from 1998 to 2013. Today, they compete in Scholastic World Class at Winter Guard International championships held in Dayton, Ohio. The group won WGI Percussion Scholastic World Championships in 1998, 1999, 2008, 2009, and 2014, with 2nd-place finishes in 2000, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2012, and 2018 and 3rd-place finishes in 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2010, 2015, and 2022. In Winter Guard International world class competitions, they have consistently won fan favorite. They have also held the record for the highest scoring group in the Percussion Scholastic World division for 15+ years. The group did not attend NESBA Finals or WGI World Championships in 2020 because of the global COVID-19 pandemic. The group was able to perform in virtual WGI competitions in 2021, however.[18]

Winter Guard

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Year Theme Class Placement Score
2014 On the Other Side Scholastic A 12th 86.730
2015 Stand Up Scholastic A N/A N/A
2016 #Gossip Scholastic A 13th 87.930
2017 Bioluminescence Scholastic A 2nd 96.915
2018 Lilith of Eden Scholastic Open 13th 86.0
2019 Granted Scholastic Open 12th 86.6
2020 Jazz'D Scholastic Open N/A† N/A†
2021 Tourada A Corda Scholastic Open N/A N/A
2022 Jagged Little Tour Scholastic Open 24th 79.8
2023 Beethoven's 10th Scholastic Open 25th 81.9
  • † = The group did not attend WGI Championships or NESBA Finals.

The DHS Winter Guard competed in the Scholastic A Class of WGI where they made WGI Finals three times – in 2014, 2016, and 2017. After their 2nd-place finish in 2017 the group moved into the Scholastic Open Class where they received 13th place in their debut season in the division in 2018. The Winter Guard has been awarded the "Fan Favorite" award in 2016, 2017, and 2019. The Winter Guard did not attend NESBA Finals or WGI Championships in 2020 because of the global pandemic.[19]

Winter Winds

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Year Theme Class Placement Score
2022 Mechanized Scholastic A 2nd 89.775
2023 Fiber Scholastic Open 3rd 91.850

The DHS Indoor winds program was established in 2021-2022 under the direction of Ian Flint and Michael Rayner. The winds made WGI finals and placed 2nd during their first year despite facing early complications and a complete show redesign due to copyright issues.[20]

Orchestra

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The high school's orchestra has also traveled to many places national as well as international places such as Ireland,[21] the Azores, Canada, Austria and Germany, and New York. They traveled to Ireland again in April 2014, which included playing for the mayor, and getting critiqued by music professors there.[22][23][24] On December 16, 2016, the high school performed a tribute concert to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, featuring both students and guest musicians on electric violin, cello, guitar, along with a drummer and a keyboardist.,[25][26] and hosted another Trans-Siberian Orchestra tribute concert at the Zeiterion Performing Arts Center in New Bedford the next year. The orchestra also traveled to Scotland in July 2018.[27]

Athletics

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Football accomplishments

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  • State Champions – 1983, 1984, 2014, 2015
  • State Finalists – 1977, 1982, 1991, 1995, 2007
  • League Champions – 1977, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1991, 1995, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2016[28]

Notable alumni

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References

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  22. ^ 1998 Archived 2008-03-25 at the Wayback Machine, Winter Guard International. Accessed December 1, 2007.
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  24. ^ 2008 Archived 2008-05-15 at the Wayback Machine, Winter Guard International. Accessed April 19, 2008.
  25. ^ "High school orchestra rocks out with Trans-Siberian Orchestra tribute – By Angie Hilsman". Retrieved 2016-12-28.
  26. ^ Standard-Times, The. "Dartmouth High Strings Trans-Siberian terrific". southcoasttoday.com. Retrieved 2016-12-28.
  27. ^ "Dartmouth High orchestra students take the trip of a lifetime to Scotland". Dartmouth. Retrieved 2022-06-04.
  28. ^ "Game History - Dartmouth Indians Football (South Dartmouth, MA)". www.maxpreps.com. Retrieved 2022-06-04.
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  30. ^ "Makeup Mogul Probably Loves Dartmouth Pizza Joint as Much as You".
  31. ^ III, G. Jefferson Price. "Your View: Memorial Day 2016 —". The State Journal-Register. Retrieved 2023-03-03.
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