Barrington High School (Barrington, Rhode Island)
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| Name | Barrington High School |
| Principal | Joseph Hurley |
| Vice Principal(s) | Michael Messore, Nicole Varone |
| Athletic Director | George Finn |
| Address | 220 Lincoln Avenue |
| Town | Barrington Barrington, Rhode Island Barrington is a town in Bristol County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 16,310 at the 2010 census.In July 2005, CNN/Money and Money magazine ranked Barrington sixth on its list of the 100 best places to live in the United States.-History:... , Rhode Island Rhode Island The state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, more commonly referred to as Rhode Island , is a state in the New England region of the United States. It is the smallest U.S. state by area... |
| Colors | Blue/Gold |
| Mascot | The Eagles |
| Website | Barrington High School |
Barrington High School is located in Barrington, Rhode Island
Barrington, Rhode Island
Barrington is a town in Bristol County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 16,310 at the 2010 census.In July 2005, CNN/Money and Money magazine ranked Barrington sixth on its list of the 100 best places to live in the United States.-History:...
. Its Principal is Joseph Hurley, who assumed the office following the retirement of former principal John Gray. Barrington High School is a "Nationally Recognized Blue Ribbon School of Excellence."
Mission
The school's mission statement reads:
•The mission of Barrington High School is to equip each student with the knowledge and skills to be a confident, cooperative, critical decision maker and an ethical contributor to a competitive and ever-changing world; this purpose is accomplished by providing an academically rigorous curriculum, diverse co-curricular opportunities, and effective instructional strategies which challenge all students to reach their highest levels of achievement.
History
Barrington High School was established after the construction of its current building at 220 Lincoln Avenue between 1950-1959.Curriculum
•Foreign language(s) taught: FrenchFrench language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
, Latin
Latin
Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...
, Mandarin and Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
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•Special education programs designed specifically for students with specific learning disabilities.
•This school has a particular instructional focus on hands-on learning, project-based instruction.
•Physical education
Physical education
Physical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....
is required for all grades.
Test Scores
Barrington is recognized for having students that are among the highest scorers in the state on standardized tests. In 2009 93% of Barrington 11th graders were proficient in reading and 85% were proficient in math. In the 2007, 2008, and 2009 school years Barrington has had the highest scores in math and reading testing in the state.Clubs
Barrington High School has many student organized clubs. Some of the most popular of which are: Debate Team; Latin Club; Stagemasters; Spanish Club; French Club; Chinese Club; BHS Gay-straight allianceGay-straight alliance
Gay–straight alliances are student organizations, found primarily in North American high schools and universities, that are intended to provide a safe and supportive environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth and their straight allies .-Goal:The goal of most, if not all,...
; Environmental Club; Mock Trial; Diversity Club; International Club; Art Club; Physics Club; Interact Club, a division of the service organization Rotary International
Rotary International
Rotary International is an organization of service clubs known as Rotary Clubs located all over the world. The stated purpose of the organization is to bring together business and professional leaders to provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help...
; Future Business Leaders of America; National Honors Society; American Computer Science League
American Computer Science League
ACSL , or the American Computer Science League, is an international computer science competition among more than 200 schools. Each round consists of two parts: a written section and a programming section...
; Science Olympiad
Science Olympiad
Science Olympiad is an American elementary, middle, or high school team competition which tests knowledge of various science topics and engineering ability. Over 6,200 teams from 49 U.S. states compete each year. Most teams compete in three levels of competition: regionals, states, and nationals...
; Model United Nations
Model United Nations
Model United Nations is an academic simulation of the United Nations that aims to educate participants about current events, topics in international relations, diplomacy and the United Nations agenda....
; and many other nationally recognized and unique clubs.
Eagles Outlet
The Eagles Outlet is the school's store. During all lunches, before and after school it is open Monday-Friday. FBLA-PBLFBLA-PBL
The Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda, or FBLA-PBL, is an American career and technical student organization that has its headquarters in Reston, Virginia...
students run the store. Working at the store pays per hour. However, you must be hired after an application and interview process.
Morning television program
Every weekday morning, a group of about 20 Barrington High School students produce an award-winning morning television program titled Sunrise on Eagle's Wings. The show is broadcast live to the entire student body, as well as to the community over the internet. Typical segments on the 8 minute program include school news, world and US news, sports, and weather. Guests will also be featured on occasion. Notable interviews have included former Rhode Island congressman Patrick J. KennedyPatrick J. Kennedy
Patrick Joseph Kennedy II is the former U.S. Representative for , serving from 1995 until 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district includes all of Bristol County and Newport County, and parts of Providence County. Kennedy did not seek re-election in 2010.A member of the Kennedy...
, winner of the The Amazing Race
The Amazing Race
The Amazing Race is a reality television game show in which teams of two people, who have some form of a preexisting personal relationship, race around the world in competition with other teams...
, Dan Pious, and 8-time PGA
PGA
- Codes :PGA is:* the IATA airport code for Page Municipal Airport, Coconino County, Arizona, USA* the ICAO airline designator for Portugália, a regional airline based in Lisbon, Portugal* the abbreviation of programmable gain amplifier...
tour winner Brad Faxon
Brad Faxon
Bradford John Faxon, Jr. is an American professional golfer. He has won eight times on the PGA Tour.-Early years and amateur career:Faxon was born in Oceanport, New Jersey and raised in Barrington, Rhode Island...
. Special editions of the show are also produced on occasion. Notable examples include the annual French cooking show broadcasting each November, a freshman orientation show that is produced each May, and an audition show for the New England Emmy Awards
New England Emmy Awards
New England Emmy Awards are a division of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The division was founded in 1977 and in addition to granting the New England Emmy Awards, it recognizes awards scholarships, honors industry veterans at the Silver Circle Celebration, conducts National...
aired on December 16, 2010. Sunrise has also featured live on scene weather reports outside of the school building, including ones during the historic flooding of March 2010 and the blizzard of December 19/20, 2009. In April 2011, Sunrise was named the best student newscast in New England by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences or NATAS was created in 1955 to advance the arts and sciences of television. Headquartered in New York, NATAS's membership is national and the organization has local chapters around the country....
.
The Talon
"The Talon" is the Barrington High School student-run newspaper. Though it has had a sporadic publishing history, it has been published once a month during the 2009-2010 school year. Ultimately, the Talon Staff, Journalism classes, and contributing writers work to put out at least eight issues a year.The Journalism class itself started in 1973 when Mr. Albert Genetti, the principal at the time, decided the English Department needed more electives. It was then that Mr. Ralph Caruso, a teacher then, launched the classes of Journalism, Film Studies and Media Studies. However, the newspaper itself long predated the course. In 1971, the Talon had actually ceased publication due to “a disagreement regarding how to cover the controversial Vietnam War”, according to Mr. Caruso. Proving that the news is always contentious, the advisor to the Talon subsequently quit her position over the issue. After the Journalism class started, the Talon was revived and has produced around 4 issues per year ever since.
The 2009-2010 school year saw huge bounds made for The Talon. It was the first year that eight issues were put out, all of which were in color. Also, it was the first time that the paper was distributed outside of the school. It is available in many local businesses including the town grocery store, pharmacies, book store, and local coffee shops. The task of distributing the paper is in the hands of the Advertising Director.
Arrow Yearbook
"The Arrow" is Barrington High School's yearbook. It has been published every year since the school's establishment.The Revue
Once a year, the school publishes a literary and arts magazine. It contains student and staff created works such as poems, short stories, photographs, pieces of visual art, and other forms of fine art.Demographics
The student body at Barrington High School is not overly diverse. 90% of students are Caucasian, 5% Portuguese and 2% are Asian. The remaining 3% of the student body consists of African Americans and HispanicsEnrollment
Barrington High School currently has around 1,100 students. The school is operating at maximum capacity and is looking to expand due to growing class sizes.Post Graduate Plans
Barrington High School graduates are often accepted into the nation's top Universities and Liberal Arts Colleges. The class of 2009 had more than 15 students attend Ivy League Universities. The most popular four-year schools applied to by the class of 2009 were: Rhode Island CollegeRhode Island College
Rhode Island College is a nationally ranked, coeducational, state-supported comprehensive college founded in 1854, located in Providence, Rhode Island, USA...
, University of Rhode Island
University of Rhode Island
The University of Rhode Island is the principal public research university in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. Its main campus is located in Kingston. Additional campuses include the Feinstein Campus in Providence, the Narragansett Bay Campus in Narragansett, and the W. Alton Jones Campus in West...
, University of Vermont
University of Vermont
The University of Vermont comprises seven undergraduate schools, an honors college, a graduate college, and a college of medicine. The Honors College does not offer its own degrees; students in the Honors College concurrently enroll in one of the university's seven undergraduate colleges or...
, University of New Hampshire
University of New Hampshire
The University of New Hampshire is a public university in the University System of New Hampshire , United States. The main campus is in Durham, New Hampshire. An additional campus is located in Manchester. With over 15,000 students, UNH is the largest university in New Hampshire. The university is...
, Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
, and Northeastern University.
Student government
Barrington High School's student government consists of two main governing bodies: class officers and the Student Council. The class officers are 6 students from each class (representing the positions of President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and two Social-Chairs) who are elected by their respective class. Their main function is planning events and doing fundraising, specifically for their class. The Student Council consists of 8 representatives from each class who work together with other representatives in school-wide matters. They plan school dances and many other social events, including Homecoming and the annual bonfire.Athletics
Barrington has one of the top athletic records in the state in many sports. The school offers varsity, junior varsity, and some freshmen teams in at least twenty interscholastic sports, including baseballBaseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
, lacrosse
Lacrosse
Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...
, basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, soccer, cheerleading
Cheerleading
Cheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate...
, softball
Softball
Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
, cross country
Cross country running
Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
, swimming
Swimming (sport)
Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
, field hockey
Field hockey
Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...
, tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
, football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
, track and field
Track and field
Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...
(indoor and outdoor), golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
, gymnastics
Gymnastics
Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...
, volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
, ice hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
, and wrestling
Wrestling
Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...
.
Notable alumni
World-renowned academic and skynet critic Henry GirouxHenry Giroux
Henry Giroux, born September 18, 1943, in Providence, Rhode Island, is an American cultural critic. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies,...
taught at Barrington in the 1970s.
Providence Journal Sports Columnist Bill Reynolds attended school and taught here.
PGA Golfer Brad Faxon
Brad Faxon
Bradford John Faxon, Jr. is an American professional golfer. He has won eight times on the PGA Tour.-Early years and amateur career:Faxon was born in Oceanport, New Jersey and raised in Barrington, Rhode Island...
graduated from the school in 1981.
Phil Madeira
Phil Madeira
Phil Madeira is an American songwriter, producer, musician and singer from Nashville, Tennessee. He was raised in Barrington, Rhode Island and attended Taylor University, which he graduated from in 1975....
, an award-winning songwriter and musician, noted for his work with Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris is an American singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other artists including...
, graduated from High Council in the 1970s.
Judy Clapp, a recording engineer who has worked with Dwight Yoakam
Dwight Yoakam
Dwight David Yoakam is an American singer-songwriter, actor and film director, most famous for his pioneering country music...
and Bill Frisell
Bill Frisell
William Richard "Bill" Frisell is an American guitarist and composer.One of the leading guitarists in jazz since the late 1980s, Frisell's eclectic music touches on progressive folk, classical music, country music, noise and more...
, graduated from Barrington in 1970 as well.
Brian Howe
Brian Howe
Brian Howe may refer to:*Brian Howe , Australian politician*Brian Howe , vocalist with the 80s and 90s versions of Bad Company*Brian Howe , American character actor best known for his major role in The Pursuit of Happyness...
, a film and television actor, graduated from Barrington High School in 1975.
Marceline Hugot, a film, television, and Broadway actress, graduated from Barrington High School in 1978.
Brett Quigley
Brett Quigley
Brett Quigley is an American professional golfer.Quigley was born in Fort Devens, Massachusetts. He is the nephew of PGA Tour and Champions Tour golfer Dana Quigley. He won the 1987 U.S...
, PGA
PGA Tour
The PGA Tour is the organizer of the main men's professional golf tours in the United States and North America...
professional golfer, graduated from Barrington High School in 1987.
Shanna Moakler
Shanna Moakler
Shanna Lynn Moakler is an American model, actress, reality television star and a former beauty queen. She was the winner of the Miss New York USA pageant in 1995 and was originally the first runner-up at Miss USA 1995. She was later crowned Miss USA after Chelsi Smith won Miss Universe...
, Former Miss USA
Miss USA
The Miss USA beauty contest has been held annually since 1952 to select the United States entrant in the Miss Universe pageant. The Miss Universe Organization operates both pageants, as well as Miss Teen USA...
, Playboy Magazine model and ex-wife of Blink-182
Blink-182
Blink-182 is an American rock band consisting of vocalist and bass guitarist Mark Hoppus, vocalist and guitarist Tom DeLonge, and drummer Travis Barker. They have sold over 27 million albums worldwide since forming in Poway, California in 1992...
Drummer Travis Barker
Travis Barker
Travis Landon Barker is an American musician, producer and entrepreneur, most noted as the drummer for the American pop punk band Blink-182, as well as the alternative rock band +44, the rap rock band The Transplants, and the alternative rock band Box Car Racer. He was a frequent collaborator with...
, with whom she featured in MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
's Meet the Barkers
Meet the Barkers
Meet the Barkers is a reality television series that was aired on MTV. The series followed the everyday life of married couple Travis Barker and Shanna Moakler, and their three children...
(2005–2006), graduated from Barrington High School in 1993.
Spalding Gray
Spalding Gray
Spalding Rockwell Gray was an American actor, playwright, screenwriter, performance artist and monologuist...
, famous monologuist and actor. Graduated from Barrington High School.
Matthew Broome, amateur golfer, graduated in 2007, New England Amateur Champion and followed Brad Faxon by going to Furman University