Plymouth Regional High School (New Hampshire)

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Location
Plymouth Regional High School

86 Old Ward Bridge Rd., Plymouth, New Hampshire, 03264
Information
Principal	Bruce Parsons
Enrollment	961
Faculty	120
Type	High School
Established	1970
Information	603-536-1444
Mascot	Bobcat
Homepage	http://www.pemi-baker.sau48.k12.nh.us/

Coordinates: 43°45′48″N 71°42′05″W / 43.76333, -71.70139 Plymouth Regional High School (PRHS) is a public secondary school in Plymouth, New Hampshire. Surrounding towns that attend PRHS are Ashland, Holderness, Campton, Rumney, Wentworth, Warren, Ellsworth, Waterville Valley and Thornton. Bruce Parsons is the current principal. The facility, opened in 1970, is located on Old Ward Bridge Road in Plymouth. It also housed Plymouth Elementary School until 1990. Plymouth Regional was known as Plymouth Area High School until 1991. The school colors are blue and white.

1 School district
2 Enrollment
3 Student activities
4 Sports
5 Notable leaders
6 External links

[edit] School district

The school is a part of the Pemi-Baker Regional School District, which houses Plymouth Regional High School and the Pemi-Baker Academy, an alternative school. Both schools are governed by a 13 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. The Pemi-Baker Regional School district belongs to SAU (School Administrative Unit) 48, which also oversees the elementary schools in Plymouth, Holderness, Rumney, Campton, Waterville Valley, Thornton and Wentworth. Warren and Ashland are not part of the same SAU.

[edit] Enrollment

As of September 1, 2005, there were 961 students enrolled in Plymouth Regional High School. There were 221 freshmen, 220 sophomores, 255 juniors and 265 seniors.

[edit] Student activities

There is a large student government group at PRHS. The group includes a president, a vice-president, a secretary, and a treasurer in addition to four senators from each class. There is also a chairman, a vice-chairman, a secretary, a treasurer, and two representatives to the school board elected exclusively by the student government. The student government's role includes running student functions and brainstorming school policy suggestions, which are usually passed along to the school board.

PRHS additionally has an extremely talented and competitive drama program. Sarah Bunkley runs this co-curricular program, which has been highly decorated with awards during her tenure.

[edit] Sports

Plymouth's football team is currently coached by Charles "Chuck" Lenahan, who has been the head coach since 1972. Lenahan has won 16 state titles in his 35 year tenure at Plymouth. Defensive Coordinator Jon Bownes has been an assistant for nearly 30 years and is waiting in the wings to take over as the head coach of the state's winningest football program.