Cohasset High School

Cohasset High School
Location
143 Pond St.,
Cohasset, MA 02025
Information
Type Public
Established 1838
Principal Carolyn Connolly
Vice principal Brian Scott
Grades 9-12
Enrollment 347
 • Grade 12 101
Campus Suburban
Color(s) Navy, Silver & White               
Mascot Skippers
Rivals Hull, Scituate, Mashpee
Average SAT scores 568 verbal
571 math
548 writing
1687 total (2014)[1]
Newspaper The Spinnaker
Website http://cohasset.chs.schoolfusion.us/?sessionid=2b0ba5cd5dc771e2afd746057a215385&t

Cohasset High School is a public high school located in Cohasset, Massachusetts, USA. It is located at 143 Pond St. and has an enrollment of 364 students in grades 9-12. The school's mascot is the Skippers and the school colors are navy blue, silver, and white. Cohasset Middle School is attached to Cohasset High School and is under its own administration and serves grades 6-8.

Cohasset High School is ranked 13th among public high schools in Massachusetts, according to a 2010 Massachusetts Department of Education survey. Around 59% of all students at Cohasset have taken or are enrolled in an Advanced Placement course.

Cohasset is known for its athletic program and also for its football, basketball, baseball, and lacrosse teams, which have all won league and state titles. Cohasset was the first school in the South Shore League to install an artificial FieldTurf surface on their primary athletic field. Since then, East Bridgewater, Randolph, Monomoy, and Norwell have installed FieldTurf surfaces as well

Cohasset's major sports rivalries are Hull and Abington in most sports, except its hockey team (whose major rival is Norwell), the lacrosse team (in which it is Scituate), and wrestling (in which it is Rockland and Scituate). Every year on Thanksgiving, Cohasset and Hull face off in the annual football game. Cohasset holds the Thanksgiving Day title.

Sports Accomplishments

Coordinates: 42°13′57.53″N 70°48′32.51″W / 42.2326472°N 70.8090306°W

Notable alumni

Kate Bosworth, actress

References

  1. ↑ http://profiles.doe.mass.edu/state_report/sat_perf.aspx