Dover-Sherborn High School
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Dover-Sherborn High School, or DSHS, is a regional public high school
in the town of Dover, Massachusetts
, United States
. It serves students from the towns of Dover and Sherborn
, and is the senior school of the Dover-Sherborn Public School District, housing grades 9 through 12.
(MCAS) exam. Ninety-six percent of the Class of 2006 took the SAT
I and 56% scored over 600 in the verbal section, 65% scored over 600 in the math section and 58% scored over 600 in the writing section. Graduates attend colleges and universities. 97% of those that graduated in 2006 attended college.
, soccer, cross country
, golf
, field hockey
, basketball
, alpine and Nordic skiing
, swimming
, baseball
, lacrosse
, track and field
, and sailing
. Dover-Sherborn has won Tri-Valley League and Mass Bay East League titles dating back to the early 1970s, and has won six state championships over the course of its history: 1980 Men's Basketball, 1982 Men's Skiing, 1992 Boy's Soccer, 1994 Girl's Tennis, 2009 Girl's Tennis, and 2010 Boy's Soccer. From 2003-2007 the boy's and girls lacrosse teams have met with success in the Tri-Valley League, consistently placing second only to Medfield. Throughout the four years that this class was enrolled in Dover Sherborn High School the Varsity team made it to the semi finals or the finals all four years.
The High School has seen most athletic success in Men's Basketball, Men's and Women's Soccer and in Men's Lacrosse. The school has won the Basketball TVL Championships under the leadership of coach Chris DuBose, most recently in 2004-2005. In 2002, the Women's Basketball team made it to the State Championships, playing in the Fleet Center (now the TD Bank North Garden). Although the team lost, it was responsible for the resurgence of the Dover-Sherborn women's basketball program.
In the boy's hockey program they won the TVL championship and reached the playoffs for the first time since 1991 in 2009-2010. The home playoff game against Marian saw a sellout crowd at William Chase Arena in Natick, which is widely considered the toughest place to play in division 3 for all of Massachusetts.
The school is part of The Education Co-operative (TEC), which allows DSHS students to take part in internships with local companies and also enroll in TEC Classes.
The Dover-Sherborn Physics Olympics Team, coached by Physics teacher Charlie Chicklis, has on occasion taken first place at the Eastern Massachusetts Physics Olympics against schools such as Boston Latin, Milton Academy
, Thayer Academy
, and Medfield High School
. The Chess Team, also led by Charlie Chicklis, became league champions in 2007. Guided by Biology teacher Greg Tucker, a DSHS student project officially represented MA State at the prestigious International Science and Engineering Fair hosted by Intel in 2006. In 2007, DSHS became home to a Siemens Competition Semifinalist.In 2006-7 the Dover-Sherborn's Math Team made New Englands for the first time in several years. It is coached by Jim Baroody, who helped the team maintain its success after the retirement of veteran coach and math teacher Tom Powers in 2005.
The school's Drama Department puts on two productions each year: an autumn play and a spring musical. The program is directed in the fall by the English teacher Joseph Catalfano. In the winter and spring, the program is directed by the middle school English teacher Scott Walker. Music direction is conducted by the choral teacher, Ardys Flavelle. Choreography is by trained dancer and registered nurse Lauryn Walker. Costumes and other technical areas are created by the Home Economics instructor Judy Grassia. The program is supported by the local community through organizations such as Friends of the Performing Arts, The Mudge Foundation, The Dover-Sherborn Education Fund, and Len Schnabel of DesignLight. Theater productions are performed primarily at The Mudge Auditorium in the Lindquist Commons building. Some local productions are also performed at the Sherborn Community Center/1858 Town House. The program is closely linked and shares participants in the Dover-Sherborn Summer Program. Productions include: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
, Fiddler on the Roof
, Seussical
, The Importance of Being Earnest
, Godspell
, The Odd Couple
, Anything Goes
, and Once Upon a Mattress
.
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
in the town of Dover, Massachusetts
Dover, Massachusetts
Dover is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 5,589 at the 2010 census.Located about southwest of downtown Boston, Dover is a residential town nestled on the south banks of the Charles River. Almost all of the residential zoning requires or larger...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. It serves students from the towns of Dover and Sherborn
Sherborn, Massachusetts
Sherborn is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is in area code 508 and has the ZIP code 01770. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the town population was 4,119. The assessed value of the town for the fiscal year 2005 is $1,008,146,994....
, and is the senior school of the Dover-Sherborn Public School District, housing grades 9 through 12.
History
Until the 1960s Dover and Sherborn sent their high school students to neighboring town's high schools (Needham for Dover, Framingham for Sherborn). By the 1950s, the population boom was making it difficult for those schools to accept outside students, and the two towns created a regional school district. The first building was built on Farm Street in 1962. As the population continued to increase, the current high school was built on the same campus and completed in 1968. In 2004, a $43 million renovation on the campus was completed, which included a renovation of the High School building, the razing of the Middle School (the original high school building) and the new construction of the Middle School. The other schools in the district are Dover Sherborn Middle School (DSMS), Pine Hill School and Chickering School.Academics
Academically, the Dover-Sherborn High School is one of the top-performing Massachusetts public schools annually. Most recently, Boston Magazine Ranked the Dover-Sherborn School System as number one in Massachusetts for 2011. US News recognized this by including DSHS amongst the top 100 public high schools in America. For the 2006-2007 school year, DSHS tenth-grade students ranked fourth in English and math amongst their peers on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment SystemMassachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System
The Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, commonly shortened to MCAS , is the Commonwealth's statewide standards-based assessment program developed in 1993, in response to the Massachusetts Education Reform Act of the same year...
(MCAS) exam. Ninety-six percent of the Class of 2006 took the SAT
SAT
The SAT Reasoning Test is a standardized test for college admissions in the United States. The SAT is owned, published, and developed by the College Board, a nonprofit organization in the United States. It was formerly developed, published, and scored by the Educational Testing Service which still...
I and 56% scored over 600 in the verbal section, 65% scored over 600 in the math section and 58% scored over 600 in the writing section. Graduates attend colleges and universities. 97% of those that graduated in 2006 attended college.
Extracurricular activities
The school offers sports including American footballAmerican 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...
, soccer, 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...
, 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....
, 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...
, 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...
, alpine and Nordic skiing
Skiing
Skiing is a recreational activity using skis as equipment for traveling over snow. Skis are used in conjunction with boots that connect to the ski with use of a binding....
, 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...
, baseball
Baseball
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...
, 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...
, and sailing
Sailing
Sailing is the propulsion of a vehicle and the control of its movement with large foils called sails. By changing the rigging, rudder, and sometimes the keel or centre board, a sailor manages the force of the wind on the sails in order to move the boat relative to its surrounding medium and...
. Dover-Sherborn has won Tri-Valley League and Mass Bay East League titles dating back to the early 1970s, and has won six state championships over the course of its history: 1980 Men's Basketball, 1982 Men's Skiing, 1992 Boy's Soccer, 1994 Girl's Tennis, 2009 Girl's Tennis, and 2010 Boy's Soccer. From 2003-2007 the boy's and girls lacrosse teams have met with success in the Tri-Valley League, consistently placing second only to Medfield. Throughout the four years that this class was enrolled in Dover Sherborn High School the Varsity team made it to the semi finals or the finals all four years.
The High School has seen most athletic success in Men's Basketball, Men's and Women's Soccer and in Men's Lacrosse. The school has won the Basketball TVL Championships under the leadership of coach Chris DuBose, most recently in 2004-2005. In 2002, the Women's Basketball team made it to the State Championships, playing in the Fleet Center (now the TD Bank North Garden). Although the team lost, it was responsible for the resurgence of the Dover-Sherborn women's basketball program.
In the boy's hockey program they won the TVL championship and reached the playoffs for the first time since 1991 in 2009-2010. The home playoff game against Marian saw a sellout crowd at William Chase Arena in Natick, which is widely considered the toughest place to play in division 3 for all of Massachusetts.
The school is part of The Education Co-operative (TEC), which allows DSHS students to take part in internships with local companies and also enroll in TEC Classes.
The Dover-Sherborn Physics Olympics Team, coached by Physics teacher Charlie Chicklis, has on occasion taken first place at the Eastern Massachusetts Physics Olympics against schools such as Boston Latin, Milton Academy
Milton Academy
Milton Academy is a coeducational, independent preparatory, boarding and day school in Milton, Massachusetts consisting of a grade 9–12 Upper School and a grade K–8 Lower School. Boarding is offered starting in 9th grade...
, Thayer Academy
Thayer Academy
Thayer Academy is a private, co-educational, college-preparatory day school located in Braintree, Massachusetts. The academy, conceived in 1871 at the bequest of General Sylvanus Thayer, the father of the United States Military Academy, was founded in 1877...
, and Medfield High School
Medfield High School
Medfield High School is a public high school located in Medfield, Massachusetts, and in the Norfolk County, Massachusetts. It is one of five public schools in the school system. The student to faculty ratio at the high school is 14-1, which is consistent with the state average...
. The Chess Team, also led by Charlie Chicklis, became league champions in 2007. Guided by Biology teacher Greg Tucker, a DSHS student project officially represented MA State at the prestigious International Science and Engineering Fair hosted by Intel in 2006. In 2007, DSHS became home to a Siemens Competition Semifinalist.In 2006-7 the Dover-Sherborn's Math Team made New Englands for the first time in several years. It is coached by Jim Baroody, who helped the team maintain its success after the retirement of veteran coach and math teacher Tom Powers in 2005.
The school's Drama Department puts on two productions each year: an autumn play and a spring musical. The program is directed in the fall by the English teacher Joseph Catalfano. In the winter and spring, the program is directed by the middle school English teacher Scott Walker. Music direction is conducted by the choral teacher, Ardys Flavelle. Choreography is by trained dancer and registered nurse Lauryn Walker. Costumes and other technical areas are created by the Home Economics instructor Judy Grassia. The program is supported by the local community through organizations such as Friends of the Performing Arts, The Mudge Foundation, The Dover-Sherborn Education Fund, and Len Schnabel of DesignLight. Theater productions are performed primarily at The Mudge Auditorium in the Lindquist Commons building. Some local productions are also performed at the Sherborn Community Center/1858 Town House. The program is closely linked and shares participants in the Dover-Sherborn Summer Program. Productions include: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical with lyrics by Tim Rice. The story is based on the "coat of many colors" story of Joseph from the Hebrew Bible's Book of Genesis. This was the first Lloyd Webber and Rice musical to be performed publicly...
, Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters by Sholem Aleichem...
, Seussical
Seussical
is a musical by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty based on the books of Dr. Seuss that debuted on Broadway in 2000. The play's story is a rather complex amalgamation of many of Seuss's most famous books. After a Broadway run, the production spawned two US national tours and a UK tour...
, The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at St. James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae in order to escape burdensome social obligations...
, Godspell
Godspell
Godspell is a musical by Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak. It opened off Broadway on May 17, 1971, and has played in various touring companies and revivals many times since, including a 2011 revival now playing on Broadway...
, The Odd Couple
The Odd Couple
The Odd Couple is a 1965 Broadway play by Neil Simon, followed by a successful film and television series, as well as other derivative works and spin offs, many featuring one or more of the same actors. The plot concerns two mismatched roommates, one neat and uptight, the other more easygoing and...
, Anything Goes
Anything Goes
Anything Goes is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The original book was a collaborative effort by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse, heavily revised by the team of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. The story concerns madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London...
, and Once Upon a Mattress
Once Upon a Mattress
Once Upon a Mattress is a musical comedy with music by Mary Rodgers, lyrics by Marshall Barer and book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, and Marshall Barer. It opened off-Broadway in May 1959, and then moved to Broadway...
.
Notable alumni
- Dan ItseDan ItseDaniel C. Itse, known as Dan Itse , is a conservative Republican member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives. A native of San Francisco, California, Itse is a professional engineer who resides in Fremont, New Hampshire...
, Class of 1976, engineer, inventor, and member of the New Hampshire House of RepresentativesNew Hampshire House of RepresentativesThe New Hampshire House of Representatives is the lower house in the New Hampshire General Court. The House of Representatives consists of 400 members coming from 103 districts across the state, created from divisions of the state's counties. On average, each legislator represents about 3,300... - Chad UrmstonChad UrmstonChad Stokes Urmston is an American musician. Urmston was a member of the band Hermit Thrush which later gave birth to the band Dispatch. He is the frontman for the Sherborn, Massachusetts-area band State Radio, as well as a constant activist for improved living conditions in Zimbabwe...
, Class of 1994, singer-songwriter of DispatchDispatch (band)Dispatch is an American indie/roots band. The band consists of Brad Corrigan , Pete Francis Heimbold , and Chad Urmston ....
and State RadioState RadioState Radio is an alternative rock band from Sherborn, Massachusetts, consisting of Chad Urmston , Chuck Fay and Mike Najarian... - Pat Bresnahan, Pitcher, attended Arizona State University and was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2006
- Kenny FlorianKenny FlorianKenneth Alan Florian is a Peruvian-American mixed martial artist who competes as a featherweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He has a background in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Muay Thai, and is known for his cerebral approach to the sport based on his meticulous game plans and...
, UFC fighter - Paul CalelloPaul CalelloPaul Calello was the chairman and CEO of the investment banking division of Credit Suisse Group.Callelo was born in Boston, and earned his undergraduate degree from Villanova University in 1983...
, Class of 1979, Chairman Credit Suisse