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Timberlane Regional High School

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Type
  
Public

Grades
  
9-12

Campus
  
Suburban

Principal
  
Donald Woodworth

Established
  
1966

Enrollment
  
approximately 1,413

Phone
  
+1 603-382-6541

Mascot
  
Owl

Timberlane Regional High School

Motto
  
Opes Hominum est Sapientia Quam Relinquent - The strength of man is the wisdom which he leaves behind.

Address
  
36 Greenough Rd, Plaistow, NH 03865, USA

District
  
Timberlane Regional School District

Similar
  
Pinkerton Academy, Salem High School, Londond High School, Exeter High School, Pentucket Regional High Sch

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Timberlane regional high school wrestling


Timberlane Regional High School is located in Plaistow, New Hampshire, and serves as a regional high school for the towns of Atkinson, Danville, Plaistow, and Sandown, New Hampshire. The school was built in 1966 and is a part of the Timberlane Regional School District. Timberlane Regional High School is a co-educational school for grades 9-12. The school has won the 1996, 1997 and 2014 Excellence In Education Award. As of 2005, the school has approximately 1,400 students on roll. The school mascot is the owl. The school is regionally accredited for its award-winning wrestling team, which holds 23 NH State Wrestling Champions titles, as of 2015.

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2013 timberlane regional high school dance team at the celtics


History

Timberlane was built in the vicinity of Plaistow's town dump in 1966 as a regional high school for the four towns it still serves today. The name 'Timberlane' came from the forestry industry that played a major role in the economic development of New Hampshire. Before the school was built, students attended several different high schools in the area, including Haverhill High School in nearby Haverhill, Massachusetts.

During the 1970s the school experienced a strike of nearly all its faculty, and overcrowding which necessitated double sessions (one half of the students would take classes in the morning, with the other half taking classes in the afternoon). This overcrowding was rectified in 1975 by the opening of the Timberlane Regional Middle School as a neighbor to the school.

By the early 1980s, the school needed expansion. An addition was completed in 1987, which included a second gymnasium and increased space for the athletic program. The student numbers continued to increase as families moved from Boston, Massachusetts, further out to the suburbs, and by the mid-1990s the school again became overcrowded. In the fall of 1998 several modular classrooms were installed on the property as a temporary solution, and the community demanded an extensive remodelling of the building and the six other schools in the Timberlane Regional School District.

In 1999, a $40 million renovation program was carried out district-wide, which included a complete remodeling and expansion of the high school as well as the construction of the $7 million Timberlane Regional Performing Arts Center. Several new classrooms were added, the sizes of the cafeteria and gymnasium were increased, and a ventilation system was installed. During the summer of 2007, a new roof was brought to the school after many years of leaks.

Academics

In addition to its traditional academic offerings, Timberlane allows students to take vocational classes at Salem High School and Pinkerton Academy.

Advanced Placement offerings

Timberlane offers the following AP courses:

  • AP Calculus (AB)
  • AP Statistics
  • AP Biology
  • AP Physics B
  • AP Chemistry
  • AP U.S. History
  • AP World History
  • AP English Literature and Composition
  • AP United States Government and Politics
  • AP Computer Science
  • AP European History
  • AP Human Geography
  • AP Environmental Science
  • AP Art
  • Practicing Teaching course offered through Great Bay Community College
  • Notable alumni

  • Kirk Carlsen (2005), professional cyclist
  • References

    Timberlane Regional High School Wikipedia