Bishop Stang High School

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Bishop Stang High School

Stang main entrance on Slocum Road in Dartmouth, Massachusetts
Established 1959
Type Private
President Theresa Dougall
Students 818
Location Dartmouth, Massachusetts, USA
Nickname Spartans
Website www.bishopstang.com

Bishop Stang High School is a private Catholic secondary school located in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, in the New England region of the United States. It was the first diocesan secondary school in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fall River, which includes most of Southeastern Massachusetts, including Cape Cod and the Islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. It is named after William Stang, the first Bishop of the Diocese of Fall River, and has been coeducational since its founding.

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[edit] Location

Located in the suburban town of Dartmouth, on the south coast of Massachusetts, Stang's eight-acre campus is 25 minutes west of the Cape Cod Canal and 20 minutes east of the Rhode Island border. Its 800 member student body draws from more than 50 cities and towns in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

[edit] History

Catholic secondary education in southeastern Massachusetts began in the early 20th century with local parochial schools affiliated with various Catholic parishes. Some of these, such as the now-closed Holy Family High School, located near St. Lawrence Church in New Bedford, had strong academic reputations and produced generations of prominent Catholic alumni in the region. While Stang was not the first Catholic secondary school in southeastern Massachusetts, it was the first regional, diocesan, coeducational institution. Founded in 1959, Stang's original faculty included Sisters of Notre Dame in full religious habit. The new eight-acre campus across from the Country Club of New Bedford in then-pastoral Dartmouth drew students from cities and towns in a 60 mile radius from Rhode Island to Cape Cod. In the years following the Second Vatican Council, the number of Sisters of Notre Dame decreased. By the 1970s the vast majority of faculty and administrators were lay professionals, and the remaining sisters dressed conservatively, but in lay clothing. Since its inception, Stang has had a large number of alumni return as teachers and administrators. This includes Stang's current president, Theresa Dougall, a member of the Class of 1964.

[edit] Academics

Stang is a United States Blue Ribbon School of Excellence, a designation awarded by the United States Department of Education and conferred by the President of the United States.
Stang is a United States Blue Ribbon School of Excellence, a designation awarded by the United States Department of Education and conferred by the President of the United States.

97% of Stang graduates continue their education, with over 90% going on to four-year colleges and universities.

Courses are diverse and offered at four levels. Students are placed in levels according to their individual strengths and weaknesses. They are not "tracked." A student could study in one level for English and another level for science.

Advanced Placement courses
Advanced placement courses are highly accelerated courses. They provide students the opportunity to pursue college level studies while in secondary school. AP courses are offered in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Math A/B, English, Psychology, and Modern European History.

Honors level courses
Honors level courses are characterized by content which is more extensive and detailed than standard level and college preparatory level courses. They have greater depth requiring application, analysis, and evaluation of the material, the understanding and use of concepts as well as facts. Independent research, extensive use of resources and outside reading is also expected.

College Preparatory level courses
The majority of Stang students are in college preparatory courses. These courses are characterized by detailed content requiring application, analysis, and evaluation of the material presented.

Standard Level courses
Standard level courses are open to students who are having identified difficulties in a certain content area. These courses are characterized by basic learning skills such as reading, note taking, study skills, reinforcement of memory, organization, and time management.

[edit] Athletics and activities

Football
Football
Women's Basketball
Women's Basketball
The Stang co-ed sailing team competing in a regatta against Martha's Vineyard High School
The Stang co-ed sailing team competing in a regatta against Martha's Vineyard High School

Bishop Stang offers over 30 varsity, junior varsity, and freshman interscholastic sports teams and more than 20 co-curricular activities. Stang athletic teams have historically been successful in both men's and women's sports, including a 2005 championship football team that made it to the Massachusetts high school "Super Bowl".

Each school year more than 80% of the student body participates in one or more co-curricular activities. The school takes seriously research indicating that students who participate in school activities tend to perform better in the classroom than students who do not participate in school activities.

The administration believes that athletics and activities are an integral part of the educational experience. They hold that through co-curricular activities, students enhance their moral perspectives, broaden their intellectual and cultural views, gain confidence, establish social contacts, and develop their emotional and physical fitness.

[edit] College placement

Partial List of college placements 2001–2006:

[edit] External links

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