Type Public School district Quincy Public Schools Grades 9-12 Phone +1 617-984-8754 Color Blue and White Lowest grade Ninth grade | Established 1924 Principal Lawrence Taglieri Number of students 1,519 as of 2015 District Quincy Public Schools Founded 1924 | |
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Address 100 Coddington St, Quincy, MA 02169, USA Motto Think For Yourself, Work Together, Share With the World (Think Work Share) | ||
Quincy High School (QHS) is a public secondary school located on Coddington Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. It doubles as one of two high schools in the city of Quincy and as the vocational center. Quincy's mascot is known as the 'Presidents' and their school colors are Blue & White.
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History
Quincy High School was founded in the mid-nineteenth century about a half-mile down Hancock Street (marked by the current High School Street) and moved to Coddington Street in 1924. North Quincy High School was established at a separate location in 1926.
Construction of the new high school building was completed in 2010. The old school was vacant until 2013 when the city received approval from the Massachusetts Department of Historical Sites to demolish the old school.
There are four wings with three floors for the B, C and D wing and four floors in the A wing. The C-Wing is known as the Foreign Language wing on the third floor. The D-Wing on the third floor is the 'Freshman Wing". The entire A-Wing is the Math, Science and Technology room. QHS offers freshmen a program called Freshman Seminar which allows freshmen to observe and do activities with a major for the upcoming years. The program is around 2–6 weeks rotating turns with different majors from different fields, "Business" to "Technology". Since the school was opened, over 450 new freshmen arrived at the new school, when there was around 1,300 students in 2009-2010.
Athletics
Quincy is part of the Patriot League, and previously competed in the Atlantic Coast and Old Colony Leagues.
Quincy Highschool has had consistent success recently in Girls Volleyball, Boys Volleyball, and Girls Basketball. The track teams at Quincy High present some of the top competing high school athletes in the state in recent years.
Its rival is North Quincy High School, which faces Quincy High in the annual Thanksgiving football game at Veterans Memorial Stadium. Despite the rivalry, Quincy High's track, crew, girls' hockey, swimming, rugby, sailing teams, and school band are joined with North's.