Bay Path Regional Vocational Technical High School

Infobox School
name = Bay Path Regional Vocational Technical High School
location = 57 Old Muggett Hill
Charlton, Massachusetts 01507
district =
country = USA
superintendent = David P. Papagni cite web |url=http://www.baypath.tec.ma.us/admin.html |title=Administration |publisher=Bay Path RVTHS |accessdate=2008-02-01]
principal = Clifford Cloutier
faculty = 113.0 (on FTE basis)cite web |url=http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&SchoolID=251105001779&ID=251105001779 |title=Bay Path Reg Voc Tech H S |publisher=National Center for Education Statistics |accessdate=2008-02-01]
ratio = 9.4
type = Public
enrollment = 1100
enrollment_as_of = 2005-06
mascot = Minutemen
colors = Purple and Gold color box|purplecolor box|gold
newspaper = "The Mugget Hiller"
homepage = [http://www.baypath.tec.ma.us/ www.baypath.tec.ma.us]

Bay Path Regional Vocational Technical High School is a secondary school located in Charlton, Massachusetts and sits on top of Old Mugget Hill. The school serves about 1050 students grades 9 to 12 and some Post-Grad students as well.

General

Bay Path opened in 1972 and features an array of towns coming to Bay Path and contributing the 1200 students Bay Path has. The different towns are Auburn, Charlton, Dudley, Leicester, N. Brookfield, Oxford, Paxton, Rutland, Spencer, Southbridge, and Webster.

Bay Path is a vocational school with over 20 different shops for students to choose from.

*Auto body
*Automotive
*Cabinet
*Carpentry
*Cosmetology
*Culinary Arts
*Drafting
*Electrical
*Electronics
*Facilities Management
*Graphic Arts
*Health Assisting
*Heating, Ventilation, Air conditioning/ Refrigeration
*Machine Shop
*Marketing
*Masonry
*Metal Fabrication
*Office Occupations
*Plumbing
*Programming Web and Development
*Small Engines

Athletics

Bay Path's colors are Purple and Gold and Mascot being the Minuteman. Bay Path has a large number of sports teams that included girls and boys varsity and junior varsity for: Baseball, Basketball, Football, Golf, and Track and Field.

Groups

Bay Path also has many different groups to join. Those include DECA (Destributive Education Clubs of America), Renaissance, National Honor Society, ACF, Drama Club, Year Book Committee, Student Council, S.A.D.D (Students against Destructive Decisions), Skills USA, Robotics, Chess Team, Gay Straight Alliance, The Mugget Newspaper, Ski Club, Student Government Day.

Achievements

Aside from the numerous sports titles Bay Path has acquired it also has academic achievements to be noted this includes.

*2007 Compass School for it's remarkable MCAS scores over the past years. [cite web |url=http://www.doe.mass.edu/sda/compass/cohorts.html?yr=all |title=Exemplary "Compass" Schools |publisher=Massachusetts Dept. of Education |accessdate=2008-02-01]
*Bay Path's Culinary Department has also won the Southern Worcester, MA chowder fest.
*Bay Path has placed many students in Skills USA and many have won Gold, Silver, Bronze in states and in National.

Notable Allumni

Kenny Dykstra - WWE Pro Wrestler

Peter Peloquin- College and Masters graduate(one of 3 of his graduating class to go to college)

References

External links

* [http://baypath.tec.ma.us/ Bay Path RVTHS website]