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Reading Memorial High School

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Type
  
Public

Superintendent
  
John Doherty

Faculty
  
approx. 90

Phone
  
+1 781-944-8200

Number of students
  
1,362

Established
  
1954

Principal
  
Adam Bakr

Grades
  
9-12

Mascot
  
Rocket

Reading Memorial High School

Address
  
62 Oakland Rd, Reading, MA 01867, USA

District
  
Reading Public Schools, Reading School District

Similar
  
Arthur W Coolidge Middle Sc, Winchester High School, Lexington High School, Wakefield Memorial High Sch, Austin Preparato School

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Reading Memorial High School (RMHS) is a four year public high school serving the town of Reading, Massachusetts, as its only grade 9-12 school. Reading Memorial is managed by Reading Public Schools. The school has a student body of 1,269 (2016) drawn from Parker Middle School and Coolidge Middle School. A new building renovation and construction project was completed for the 2007-08 academic year. Part of the Middlesex League, the sports teams are called the Rockets. The school's principal is Adam Bakr and the vice principals are Jessica Theriault and Michael McSweeney.

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In the Spring of the 1995-96 school year, the Reading Memorial Boys Varsity Baseball team won their first ever State Championship under head coach Pete Moscariello. The current Varsity Baseball coach is David Blanchard who is also the defensive coordinator of the Varsity Football team.

The Reading Memorial High School Girls Basketball program was the 2012 Division II Massachusetts State Champions. Reading Girls basketball capped an undefeated (25-0) 2012 season by defeating Central Champion Tyngsborough at the DCU Center in Worcester on March 17, 2012. This was the first state championship for Reading Memorial High School in the sport of basketball. The following year the team competed for the Eastern Division II Massachusetts State Championship, but fell in overtime to Medfield, 59-51.

On March 16, 2014, the Rockets' Boys Varsity Hockey team won the Division I State Championship over Braintree 4-1 at the TD Garden, their first state championship since winning the Super 8 Championship in 2008. In 2015, the Reading's Girls Varsity Hockey team won the Division I State Championship, their first in the school's history.

On November 11th, 2016, Reading Memorial's Varsity Football team advanced to their respective playoff division Super Bowl for the second consecutive year after beating Lincoln Sudbury 21-7 in the Division 1A North Final. However, they lost to King Philip High School 21-18 in the Super Bowl at Gillette Stadium, their second consecutive loss in an MIAA Super Bowl. The Rockets' Football team has won two of the five Super Bowls they have participated in under head coach John Fiore's reign since 2003, winning in 2009 and 2012.

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Notable alumni

  • Danny McBride (RMHS '63), singer-songwriter, guitarist
  • John Doherty (RMHS '69) first baseman-designated hitter, California Angels (NOTE: not to be confused with the current Superintendent of Schools for Reading, also named John Doherty)
  • Brad Whitford (RMHS '70), guitarist for Aerosmith
  • Mark Feeney (RMHS '75), Boston Globe arts writer, author of Nixon at the Movies: A Book about Belief (2004), winner Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, 2008
  • Denise A. Spellberg (RMHS '75), associate professor of history, University of Texas at Austin, author of Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past: The Legacy of 'A'isha Bint Abi Bakr (1994) and Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an: Islam and the Founders (2013)
  • Joan Feeney (RMHS '76), founding editor of Epicurious.com
  • Mark Erelli, folk musician
  • References

    Reading Memorial High School Wikipedia