Mascoma Valley Regional High School
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| Mascoma Valley Regional High School | |
| Address | |
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| 27 Royal Road Canaan, NH, 03741 USA |
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| Information | |
| Religion | None |
| Principal | Patrick Andrew |
| Enrollment |
~450 |
| Faculty | ~70 |
| Type | Public |
| Motto | You Can't Hide That Panther Pride! |
| Mascot | The Royals (Panther) |
| Color(s) | Purple and gold |
| Established | 1963 |
| Homepage | www.mascoma.k12.nh.us |
Coordinates: Mascoma Valley Regional High School (MVRHS) is a public secondary school in Canaan, New Hampshire. Surrounding towns that attend MVRHS are Grafton, Enfield, Orange, and Dorchester. The facility, opened in 1963, is located on Royal Road, off of U.S. Route 4. It is adjacent to the Indian River School, which houses grades 5 through 8. The school colors are Purple and Gold; the mascot is a panther and teams are known as “The Royals.”
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[edit] School district
The school is a part of the Mascoma Valley Regional School District, SAU 62, which houses MVRHS, Indian River School, Enfield Village School, and Canaan Elementary School. All schools are governed by a 7-member school board, elected at large by the voters in the member communities and providing proportional representation for those communities in the financing and governing of the high school.
[edit] Enrollment
As of January 2008, there were 130 freshmen, 112 sophomores, 111 juniors, and 90 seniors. In total, there are 443 students in MVRHS.
[edit] Student activities
Student activities at Mascoma include National Honor Society, Student Council, Destination Imagination, Granite State Challenge, Life Smarts, Math Team, Fitness for Fun, Future Business Leaders of America, Mascoma Outing Club, Drama, Band, Chorus, Jazz Band, Guitar Ensemble, French and Spanish Clubs, Recycling Club, and many athletics teams.
[edit] Destination Imagination
The Destination Imagination teams have earned state and global awards for overall excellence. In the past eight years, the Mascoma Destination Imagination teams have competed at the global level six times. In 2007, the Senior team placed 4th in the entire world. There are currently two teams in the high school, with promising futures ahead.
[edit] Athletics
Mascoma has a very comprehensive athletics program at the class M level, with players competing on both the varsity and junior varsity teams in baseball, basketball, field hockey, football, soccer, softball, track, volleyball, and cross country running. The girls basketball team holds more state titles than any other class M girls basketball team in New Hampshire. Mascoma sports fans are famous for their enthusiasm and exceptional school spirit, earning the name of “Rowdy Royals.”
[edit] National Honor Society
The Mascoma chapter of the National Honor Society consists of juniors and seniors who not only achieve high academic marks but also serve in their community and are responsible and helpful. They are then inducted by a faculty member who chooses them and is traditionally kept a secret until that very night. Currently they are participating in a tutoring program hosted at the Indian River School to help those children who need to be assisted in classwork or homework.
[edit] Mascoma Outing Club
The Mascoma Outing Club hosts a variety of outdoor activities throughout the year and always comprises a very enthusiastic group. Some past events have included:
- The Deep Freeze
Consisting of hiking up Smarts Mountain and staying overnight in an unheated cabin with nothing but your layers, sleeping bag, and others' body heat to keep you warm. However uncomfortable this may seem, this trip is always an amazing one to go on and the experience just can't be matched. Typically they reach the top of the mountain just before sunset and after settling into the cabin and changing base layers, the group can all go to the fire tower at the top and watch the sunset form the highest point on the mountain. Not to mention the view of the night stars and the sunrise if you rise early enough.
- Leaf Peaker Tour
A hike up Mount Cardigan taken to appreciate the beauty of the turning leaves.
- Jell-O-Thon
A competition involving the formation of teams who share the parts of cycling, running, swimming, etc.
- Halloween Capture-the-Candy
Like capture the flag but played using pots of candy.
- After-Turkey Trot
A walk to work off those extra pounds from Thanksgiving.
- Snow Ball
An annual dance hosted by the MOC and combining dancing inside with sledding outside for those who are willing. Lights on the hill are used as well as music inside and out. Hot chocolate is served to add to the experience.
- Polar Dip
A day in April taken to jump in and see how long you can last in the icy Canaan Street Lake.
[edit] Concert Band
The Mascoma Concert Band has grown to large numbers in recent years, now consisting of approximately 80 members. The band has been on numerous trips to showcase their abilities and develop further. In 2005 they performed at the presidential inauguration. In 2008, they are traveling to Williamsburg, Virginia, to play in the Heritage Music Festival and compete against other bands there.
[edit] Student life
The general atmosphere at Mascoma is one of great camaraderie and just walking down the halls you see kids laughing and smiling and usually a hug or two. There is a lot of happiness here and the small school forms a pretty close knit community. The teachers are very enthusiastic about their classes and find ways to make things fun and interesting. The overall experience as a student in Mascoma is the friendliness you can feel from the majority of the student and faculty body.
The school year starts off with a giant bonfire, at least two stories high when lit. The seniors are excused from one day of classes to construct this bonfire of pallets and planks. In one epic year, with the class of 2005, the bonfire was so large that a cherry-picker was required in order to complete construction. Before the night falls there events ranging from a moon bounce to a dunk tank typically with a faculty member inside. That night there is a procession of the seniors with candles and a few chosen ones get to go and light the fire with theirs. Then the night is filled with many social gatherings and there is music and food served.
Every February the four classes take part in a week-long competition, in which the seniors usually win. This “Winter Carnival” includes athletic activities, such as dodgeball, basketball, volleyball, and indoor soccer. There are also activities which test a class’s mental strength, such as Trivial Pursuit, Scrabble, Scattergories, Sorry, Duck Hunt, and James Bond Golden-Eye. Another set of activities focuses on the creative side of student talent, with snow sculpture, talent, and lip-sync contests. The most popular are the extreme sports such as musical chairs and red-light, green-light, in which at serious bodily harm to at least one freshman is inevitable.The Winter Carnival week also consists of dress up days with new themes each year except for Friday which is always Spirit day. Some days in the past have been Superhero day, 80's Day, Sports Day, and Hip-Hop day. The classes compete to have the highest percentage of dressed up members and win the most points for that day. Spirit Day always brings out every last article of purple and gold that Mascoma students possess form jewelry, bandannas, scarves, and other headpieces to shirts, shorts, pants, socks and of course some hair dye, face paint, and the ever creative purple Crayola marker.
The big event in the Spring is the "Spring Fling" where the school is divided into 16 teams each having a faculty leader and given a team color. The teams are mixtures of all four grades and compete against each other in an array of competitions including water balloon toss, tug of war, outdoor volleyball, doughnut on a string, ultimate Frisbee, obstacle courses and relay races. The competition is usually outdoors and there is live entertainment performed by some of Mascoma's own students. At the end of the Spring Fling Events, the end of the year slide show and yearbook distribution takes place and is a wonderful bonding experience as the whole school recalls the events of the past year.
