Coventry High School (Coventry, Rhode Island)

Coventry High School
Ad Astra Per Aspera (Through Difficulty, to the Stars)
Location
Coventry, Rhode Island, United States
Information
Type	Public
Established	1934
Principal	Michael J. Hobin
Grades	9 - 12
Number of students	aprox. 2001
School Color(s)	red, black, and white
Mascot	Oaker
Website	http://schools.coventryschools.net/highschool/

Coventry High School is a public high school located in Coventry, Rhode Island. Servicing grades Nine through Twelve, it has close to 2,000 students, and is the only public high school in Coventry, Rhode Island. According to the latest report from Public School Review, the school is 40% male and 60% female. In terms of ethnicity, Coventry High School is 97% Caucasian, 1% Asian, 1% African-American, and 1% Hispanic. Coventry High School is located off of Route 3, at 40 Reservoir Road.

Overview

The school's nickname is the Knotty Oakers, which is usually shortened to simply "Oakers".The original high school was built near the corner of Knotty Oak Road (Rt 116) and Rt 117, the location of a large oak tree that was a local landmark. The school's colors are red, white and black, and the mascot is an elephant.

Athletics

Coventry High's wrestling program won 17 consecutive Rhode Island State Championships from 1982 through 1998.^{[citation needed]} Since the program's inception in 1968, Oaker wrestlers have won a total of 19 state team championships (1972, 1974, 1982–1998).

Also, in 1985 Coventry High School's hockey program went 21-0 and had 210 GF and 6 GA winning the state title.

Other notable achievements include: 1992 Rhode Island Class B State Football Champions, where the Oakers went undefeated at 12-0 and were not scored upon for over half of their season. Also, the school's Varsity fastpitch softball team won two consecutive RIIL Division 1 State Championships in 2009 and 2010.

History

Coventry High School was formed in the 1930s, presumably across Knotty Oak Road (called Rice Field, used for pop-warner football now). From archives, the building was a three story building. Around the 1950s, CHS moved across the street to Foster Drive. Up until 1975, the school held "double sessions"; underclassmen classes in the morning and upperclassmen in the afternoon. In 1975, CHS would make its final move to 40 Reservoir Road (the former building now houses Anne Franke, currently called Alan Shawn Feinstein Middle School of Coventry). Circa 1991, an addition was done on the back wing of the school, which butts Clubhouse road. During of the summer of 2000 or 2001, more additions where done to the building including the expansion of the 1991 addition, a preschool, another cafeteria, more classrooms along the westside of the school (which face the athletic fields) as well as the south face (student parking lot, and the movement of the Career and Tech educational programs (up until 2001, the tech programs' were still being taught at the foster drive location, which incidentally were being converted over to school admin offices).

Coventry High School is also home of the 081-AFJROTC. The drill team won seven Air Force Nationals Championships(02-06,08,09), with the team placing fourth in 2007^{[citation needed]}.

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