Bishop Stang High School

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name = Bishop Stang High School


established = 1959
type = Private
president = Theresa Dougall
city = Dartmouth
state = Massachusetts
country = U.S.
students = 818
nickname = Spartans
school colors = Maroon and Gray
website = [http://www.bishopstang.com/ www.bishopstang.com]

Bishop Stang High School is a private Catholic secondary school located in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, in the New England region of the United States. It was the first diocesan secondary school in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fall River, which includes most of Southeastern Massachusetts, including Cape Cod and the Islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. It is named after William Stang, the first Bishop of the Diocese of Fall River, and has been coeducational since its founding.

Location

It is Located in the suburban town of Dartmouth, on the south coast of Massachusetts, Stang's eight-acre campus is 25 minutes west of the Cape Cod Canal and 20 minutes east of the Rhode Island border. Its 800-plus member student body draws from more than 50 cities and towns in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The address of Bishop Stang High School is 500 Slocum Road.

History

Catholic secondary education in southeastern Massachusetts began in the early 20th century with local parochial schools affiliated with various Catholic parishes. Some of these, such as the now-closed Holy Family High School, located near St. Lawrence Church in New Bedford, had strong academic reputations and produced generations of prominent Catholic alumni in the region. While Stang was not the first Catholic secondary school in southeastern Massachusetts, it was the first regional, diocesan, coeducational institution. Founded in 1959, Stang's original faculty included Sisters of Notre Dame in full religious habit. The new eight-acre campus across from the Country Club of New Bedford in then-pastoral Dartmouth drew students from cities and towns in a convert|60|mi|km|sing=on radius from Rhode Island to Cape Cod. In the years following the Second Vatican Council, the number of Sisters of Notre Dame decreased. By the 1970s the vast majority of faculty and administrators were lay professionals, and the remaining sisters dressed conservatively, but in lay clothing. Since its inception, Stang has had a large number of alumni return as teachers and administrators.

Academics

96% of Stang graduates continue their education, with over 91% going on to four-year colleges and universities.

Courses are diverse and offered at five levels. Students are placed in levels according to their individual strengths and weaknesses. They are not "tracked." A student could study in one level for English and another level for science.

Advanced Placement courses
Advanced placement courses are highly accelerated courses. They provide students the opportunity to pursue college level studies while in secondary school. AP courses are offered in Biology, Chemistry Physics, Math A/B, English, Psychology, and Modern European History.

Honors level courses
Honors level courses are characterized by content which is more extensive and detailed than standard level and college preparatory level courses. They have greater depth requiring application, analysis, and evaluation of the material, the understanding and use of concepts as well as facts. Independent research, extensive use of resources and outside reading is also expected.

College Preparatory level courses
The majority of Stang students are in college preparatory courses. These courses are characterized by detailed content requiring application, analysis, and evaluation of the material presented.

Athletics and activities

Bishop Stang offers over 11 varsity, junior varsity, and freshman interscholastic sports teams and more than 20 co-curricular activities. Stang also has a few activities that have not become official such as an Improvisation Group. Stang athletic teams have historically been a success in both men's and women's sports, including a 2005 championship football team that made it to the Massachusetts high school "Super Bowl" and lost.

Each school year more than 80% of the student body participates in one or more co-curricular activities.

References

External links

* [http://www.bishopstang.com Official website]
* [http://www.privateschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/12923 Entry at PrivateSchoolReview.com]
* [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Stang Bischof, Professor Doktor Wilhelm Stang]
* [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mingolsheim Stang's Hometown(-page) Bad Langenbruecken to day]
* [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:BischofStangStrasse.jpgStreetname in Bad Langenbruecken / Germany ]
*Bad Langenbruecken / Germany is at coordinates coord|49.202703|8.646176|type:edu
*Bishop Stang is at coordinates coord|41.636566|-70.967860|type:edu|display=inline,title