Braintree High School - Braintree, Massachusetts/MA

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Braintree High School

128 Town Street, Braintree, MA, 02184-5308 -

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Definition of Terms

Braintree High School

Grades Offered

Grades PK - 12

County

Norfolk County, MA

Students & Faculty

Total Students

1556 students

% Male / % Female

51% / 49%

Total Classroom Teachers

102 teachers

Students by Grade

Pre-K - 103 students

Grade 9 - 371 students

Grade 10 - 384 students

Grade 11 - 339 students

Grade 12 - 359 students

This School

(MA) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:15

1:14

Students by Ethnicity

This School

(MA) School Average

% American Indian	n/a	n/a
% Asian	6%	6%
% Hispanic	2%	14%
% Black	4%	12%
% White	87%	64%
% Unknown	1 %	4%

Additional Student Information

This School

(MA) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

25%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

n/a

(MA) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

Braintree School District

This School's Agency

(MA) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	9	6
Number of Students Managed	5,463 students	3,236 students
District Total Revenue	$53,754,000	$47,808,000
District Expenditure	$55,096,000	$52,073,000
District Revenue / Student	$9,840	$14,774
District Expenditure / Student	$10,085	$16,092

Byrne is hot stuff for Braintree swim team (Braintree Forum)
posted on November 19, 2009 at 06:12:11 pm
It’s on to the State Championship for the Braintree High School swim team. Several Water Wamps competed last Saturday in the South Sectional Championship at MIT pool in Cambridge and did well enough to advance to the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association’s championship, which will be held Nov. 28 at the Blodgett Pool on the Harvard University campus. The star of the meet for ...
The volleyball season had its ups and downs (Braintree Forum)
posted on November 19, 2009 at 06:12:01 pm
Like it was for all volleyball teams, a season is marked by peaks and valleys and there were more peaks than valleys for the Braintree High School girls’ volleyball team. For more of the year, before fatigue and injuries took their toll, the Lady Wamps were in the hunt for an unbeaten season and a Bay State Conference championship. But both those lofty goals fell by the wayside, which is what ...
Braintree gridders drop sixth straight, 48-20 (Braintree Forum)
posted on November 19, 2009 at 06:11:51 pm
Maybe, it was fitting that the final game the Braintree High School football team played before Thanksgiving took place on Friday the 13th. After all, these Wamps have had little luck and even less good fortune, and that didn’t change last Friday night at Weymouth High School’s Sgt. Jeffrey Mullin Field when BHS faced archrival Weymouth in a Bay State Conference Carey Division clash. Braintree ...
Swine flu vaccines eyed for Braintree students next month (Braintree Forum)
posted on November 16, 2009 at 11:06:47 pm
School officials are gearing up to vaccinate students against the H1N1 (or swine flu) virus. During the Nov. 9 school committee meeting, Superintendent of Schools Peter Kurzberg said that seasonal flu vaccinations were administered last month and the H1N1 shots would be given out once the town receives its allotment, tentatively set for early December.
Braintree father shares story of son’s opiate addiction to warn other parents (Braintree Forum)
posted on November 16, 2009 at 08:07:01 pm
Bill Brids was at work one day two years ago.The telephone rang. It was a call that would shatter his life forever. “Mr. Brids, this is the Braintree police. We have arrested your son David for drugs. We are about to search your house.” This call began a nightmare for the widowed father of two teenagers, a nightmare in which he has committed his son for treatment three times, a nightmare in ...

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Braintree High School is a secondary school located in Braintree, Massachusetts, within Norfolk county. The school is part of the Braintree Public Schools department and is located to the north side of Sunset Lake.
General
As of 2008, the headmaster is David Swanton. Braintree's school colors are blue and white and their school and athletic teams claim the nickname of "The Wamps." It is held by the school that the name is derived from the Massachusetts Indian Nation Chief Sachem known as Wampatuck, whose name means "White Deer."
Enrollment & Budget
The school district operates six elementary schools, two middle schools and one high school, with a total enrollment of just over 5,000 students. The School Department’s budget is $43,159,023 in FY2008.
Academic Achievements
89% of Braintree High School graduates pursue post-secondary studies. Students at all grade levels score well above state and national averages on all measures of standardized testing, including the MCAS and the SAT. Braintree High School offers eighteen Advanced Placement (AP) courses; more than ⅓ of the senior class is enrolled in at least one AP course.
Athletics
Braintree High is a member of the Bay State Conference, a league in Massachusetts Division I athletics. The current athletics director at BHS is Mike Denise. They have traditional rivalries with Milton High and Weymouth High. Next year is going to be a good year for the Wamps. Recently the Boys' Gymnastics squad has consistently repeated as champions of the BSC while the Cheerleading squad competes on the national stage. There have been several other state champions produced by BHS in the past several years, most notably in girls' athletics. The Lady Wamps Basketball team won the state title for the 2005-06 season while the Soccer team won both in 2005 and again in 2006, led by rising star Amy Caldwell, a player who has received national attention.
Notable alumni
Joseph Sullivan, first mayor of the town of Braintree
Jim Calhoun, University of Connecticut Men's Basketball Coach
Chris Doherty, lead singer of band Gang Green
Butch Stearns WFXT-TV (Fox-25) Sports Anchor Sun-Thursday
Kevin Ring, Famous impressionist painter
External links
BHS website
BHS profile provided by greatschools.net
BHS Athletics

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