Manchester Central High School

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Manchester Central High School


Motto:	Respice, Adspice, Prospice (Look Towards the Past, Present, and Future)
Established:	March 30, 1846
Type:	Public high school
Staff:	159
Students:	2,500
Location:	Manchester, NH, USA
Campus:	Urban
Nickname:	Little Green (unofficial)
Mascot:	The Little Green
Website:	www.mansd.org/central

Coordinates: 42°59′36″N 71°27′17″W / 42.99333, -71.45472

Bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln by John Rogers in front of the Burns Building at Central High School.

Manchester High School Central is the oldest public high school in the state of New Hampshire. Located in the heart of Manchester, New Hampshire, over 2,400 students attend from communities such as Auburn, Candia, Hooksett, and Manchester. The name was changed from Manchester High School in 1922 when Manchester West High School opened. Including Central, Manchester has a total of three public high schools.

Its athletics teams are nicknamed the Little Green (after Dartmouth's Big Green), and predictably, the school colors are green and white. Sports Illustrated named the school's athletic department as the best in the state of New Hampshire in 2005.

The school originally had crimson red as its school color, but Concord High School had taken the color soon after. After the turn of the century, the two schools decided that the winner of a league championship would keep its colors; Concord won, and Manchester Central chose forest green as its new color.

John Rist is the school's current principal.

Central High School's student newspaper The Little Green is a highly respected publication. The Little Green was commended by Columbia Scholastic Press and featured in the Manchester Daily Express as well as the New Hampshire Union Leader.^{[citation needed]}