Falmouth High School (Massachusetts)

For other schools of a similar name, see Falmouth High School.

Falmouth High School
Location
874 Gifford Street Ext. Falmouth, MA 02540
Information
Type	Public high school
Established	1973
School district	Falmouth
Principal	Mr. Joseph Driscoll
Grades	9-12
Enrollment	870
Color(s)	Maroon & White
Athletics conference	Atlantic Coast League
Nickname	Clippers
Rivals	Barnstable, Sandwich, Dennis-Yarmouth
Average SAT scores	514 verbal 524 math 515 writing 1553 total (2014-2015)
Website	School website

Falmouth High School (FHS) is a public High School located in the town of Falmouth, Massachusetts. The school serves roughly 870 students in grades 9-12. Over the past few years, Falmouth High School has under gone through major renovations. Up until 1973, the school was named Lawrence High School and located at what is now Lawrence Junior High School. Falmouth High School is located at 874 Gifford Street Ext. The school's mascot is the Clippers and the school colors are Maroon & White.

History

Up until 1973, the high school was known as Lawrence High School for almost a century. The establishment of a high school in the town of Falmouth dates back to the late 1800s, but the formal Falmouth High School was only established in 1973. The name change was applied in order to more closely identify the high school with the town of Falmouth and give the school a community-based identity, and to disassociate from the similarly named Lawrence High School located in Lawrence, Massachusetts in an effort to squash the confusion between the two similarly named schools.

Also, students from the neighboring town of Mashpee attended Falmouth High School for many years, until the town of Mashpee established their own separate high school in 1996.

In recent years, Falmouth has undergone several periods of major renovation, which ran into the hundreds of millions of dollars. These renovations came under intense scrutiny several times and were plagued by constant setbacks, which included poor construction and architecture, massively exceeding the proposed budget, exceeding the proposed completion date, and several breach-of-contract suits against the school committee, architechts, contractors and firms involved. Initially, the project was supposed to cost $67 million and take two years to complete, but the project ended up costing $87 million, $20 million over budget, and took almost six years to complete.

Athletics

These are some recent accomplishments of Falmouth athletic teams.

• Boy's Hockey - State Champions (1980, 1981)
• Girl's Hockey - State Champions (2015)
• Football - State Finalists (1996)
• Football - State Playoff Qualifier (1996, 2015)
• Boy's Basketball - State Finalists (2009)
• Boy's Basketball - Eastern Mass Champions (2009)
• Boys Tennis - State Champions (2007)

Alumni

• John Muse - Goaltender for the Carolina Hurricanes of the NHL, won two NCAA D-I Hockey National Championships as the starting goaltender for the Boston College Eagles hockey team.
• Steve Cishek - MLB Baseball pitcher for the Florida Marlins.
• Robert "Bubba" Pena - Class of 1966, Former NFL Football player for the Cleveland Browns from 1971-1973, attended Massachusetts.
• Andy Andrade - Class of 1970, Former NFL Football player for the Dallas Cowboys from 1974-75, attended Northern Michigan
• Willie Ford - Class of 1997, Former NFL Football player for the Oakland Raiders, Indianapolis Colts and Kansas City Chiefs. Attended Syracuse University.
• Jamaal Branch - Class of 1999, Former NFL Football player for the New Orleans Saints, 2003 Walter Payton Award winner while playing for Colgate University