Nantucket High School

Nantucket High School
Nantucket High School
Established 1838
Type Public High School
President Michael Cozort
Principal John Buckey
Faculty 39
Students 402 [1]
Grades 9–12
Location Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA
Coordinates 41°16′21″N 70°5′58″W / 41.2725°N 70.09944°W / 41.2725; -70.09944Coordinates: 41°16′21″N 70°5′58″W / 41.2725°N 70.09944°W / 41.2725; -70.09944
District Nantucket Public Schools
Campus Rural
Colors Blue and White          
Athletics Whalers
Mascot Finback Whale
Rival Martha's Vineyard Regional High School
Newspaper Veritas [2][3]
Website npsk14.npsk.org

Nantucket High School is a public high school in Nantucket, Massachusetts. It is also the only high school on the island of Nantucket.

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History

Nantucket High School was founded in 1838 with Cyrus Peirce as the school's first principal.[4]

Athletics

The Nantucket High School athletic teams are known as the Whalers. There is a juvenile Finback Whale skeleton hanging in the commons area of Nantucket High School that serves as the team's mascot. The Nantucket Girls Basketball Team is known as the Lady Whalers.[5]

Every year the Whalers Varsity Football Team plays against the Martha's Vineyard Regional High School Vineyarders for the Island Cup on the weekend before Thanksgiving. The Island Cup is played on Nantucket one year then on Martha's Vineyard the next year and continually switches back and forth. The winner keeps the Island Cup trophy until the next year. Currently Martha's Vineyard has the island cup for the ninth straight year, recently beating Nantucket 10-7 on November 19, 2011. The NHS boy's lacrosse team has been in the state tournament consecutively since 1999.[citation needed] The Whalers Ice Hockey Team is also fairly new.

In popular culture

  • On the NBC sitcom Wings, the main characters Joe, Brian, Helen, Lowell and Casey were all graduates of the fictional Siasconset High School on Nantucket.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ Department of Education Profile
  2. ^ ack.net
  3. ^ Veritas
  4. ^ prospecthillcemetery.com
  5. ^ The Nantucket Independent

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