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Amherst Regional High School (Massachusetts)

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{{Infobox school

| name = Amherst Regional High School

| image = Amherst Regional High School, Amherst MA.jpg

| caption = Amherst Regional High School in 2012

| motto = Veritas Unitas Caritas

| motto_translation = Truth Unity Charity

| streetaddress = 21 Mattoon Street

| city = Amherst

| state = Massachusetts

| zipcode = 01002

| country = United States

| coordinates = {{coord|42|22|51|N|72|30|46|W|region:US-MA_type:edu|display=inline, title}}

| schooltype = Public High School
Open enrollment{{cite web|url=http://www.doe.mass.edu/finance/schoolchoice/choice-status.pdf|title=Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education - Error Page|website=www.doe.mass.edu}}

| established =

| founded = 1956

| trustee =

| administrator =

| principal = Talib Sadiq

| grades = 9–12

| enrollment = 841 (2023-2024){{cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=2501920&ID=250192000042|title=Amherst Regional High|publisher=National Center for Education Statistics|access-date=March 22, 2025}}

| teaching_staff = 68.27 (FTE)

| ratio = 12.32

| area = Amherst, Pelham, Leverett, Shutesbury

| mascot = Hurri the Hurricane

| rival = Northampton

| SAT = 604 verbal
591 math
1195 total (2017–2018){{cite web|url=http://profiles.doe.mass.edu/statereport/sat.aspx|title=Massachusetts Department Of Elementary And Secondary Education - 2017-18 SAT Performance Report - All Students Statewide Report|website=profiles.doe.mass.edu}}

| newspaper = The Graphic

| yearbook = The Goldbug

| url = {{URL|arhs.arps.org}}

| imagesize = 250px

| schoolnumber =

| schoolboard =

| affiliation =

| superintendent = Douglas Slaughter

| language = English with ELL programs

| teamname = Hurricanes

| colors = Maroon and White {{color box|maroon}} {{color box|white}}

}}

Amherst Regional High School (ARHS) is a secondary school in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States, for students in grades 9–12. It is part of the Amherst-Pelham Regional School District, which comprises the towns of Amherst, Pelham, Leverett, and Shutesbury, Massachusetts.{{cite web|url=http://www.arps.org/|title=Amherst-Pelham Regional Public Schools - Amherst-Pelham Regional Public Schools|website=www.arps.org}} Its official colors are maroon and white. ARHS's current principal, beginning in the 2023–24 academic year, is Talib Sadiq.{{cite web |title=ARPS Staff Directory {{!}} Amherst-Pelham Regional Public Schools |url=http://www.arps.org/amherst-pelham-regional-public-schools/arps-staff-directory |website=www.arps.org |access-date=7 February 2019}}

Extracurricular and non-academic activities

= Sports =

The school's sports teams are known as the Hurricanes. The nickname first appears in the Goldbug yearbook of 1942, in the Sports/Baseball section,{{Cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/goldbug1942unse/page/44/mode/2up?q=hurricanes|title=Goldbug 1942 Sports Baseball|date=1942 |publisher=Amherst Regional High School }} "Hurricanes humble Hopkins". The nickname is likely in recognition of the 1938 New England Hurricane.{{Cite web |url=https://www.weather.gov/okx/1938HurricaneHome|title=National Weather Service, The Great New England Hurricane of 1938}} "History of the Class", Goldbug 1939, is entitled "The Epic Of A Hurricane";{{Cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/goldbug1939unse/page/36/mode/2up|title=Goldbug 1939 History of the class|date=1939 |publisher=Amherst Regional High School }} it begins "We are a hurricane."

The boys' cross-country team has been listed in the top 100 high school teams in America, and has won many Western Massachusetts championships, most recently in 2018.{{Cite web|url=http://www.gazettenet.com/home/9256882-95/amherst-reclaims-boys-division-1-cross-country-title|archive-date=12 November 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20131112031840/http://www.gazettenet.com/home/9256882-95/amherst-reclaims-boys-division-1-cross-country-title|url-status=dead|title=Amherst reclaims boys Division 1 cross country title | GazetteNet.com|access-date=12 November 2013}} In 2001 they won the State Championship.{{Cite web|url=https://archive.dyestat.com/state/ma/1xc/all-mass/index.htm|title=Massachusetts Cross Country 2001 All-Massachusetts Championship Natasha Roetter smashes state record Andy Pitts, Amherst boys win big|date=November 17, 2001|access-date=November 8, 2021}}

ARHS is one of many high schools in Massachusetts with a nationally ranked Ultimate program.{{Cite web |url=http://scores.usaultimate.org/scores/ |title=USA Ultimate youth boys rankings |access-date=2012-06-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100930050525/http://scores.usaultimate.org/scores/#youth-open/rankings |archive-date=2010-09-30 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=http://scores.usaultimate.org/scores/ |title=USA Ultimate youth girls rankings |access-date=2012-06-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100930050525/http://scores.usaultimate.org/scores/#youth-girls/rankings |archive-date=2010-09-30 |url-status=dead }} The program hosts the annual Amherst Invitational Ultimate Tournament which pits 30 high school teams from across the country in the oldest and one of the largest high school tournaments in the USA.{{Cite web|url=http://www.amherstultimate.org/ai/2012.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120624212023/http://www.amherstultimate.org/ai/2012.html|url-status=dead|title=2012 Amherst Invitational Tournament Website|archive-date=June 24, 2012}}

The 1992–1993 girls' basketball team inspired the book In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle by Madeleine Blais.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}

The Football team won the 1999 Massachusetts High School Super Bowl by defeating Southbridge, 27–7. It was the first Super Bowl win for Amherst in 25 years.[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/65445423/] Fitchburg Sentinel from Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Monday, December 8, 1975, Page 8[http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/high_school/high_school_insider/2014/08/high_school_football_super_bowl_history_from_1972] HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Super Bowl history from 1972–2013, Boston Herald, August 10, 2014

Amherst High Athletics came to national attention in the fall of 2016, when the entire volleyball team, with the exception of one player, decided to kneel during the playing of the National Anthem at an away game against rival Minnechaug on Oct. 7, 2016. The sole player who chose to stand was profiled by ESPN.{{Cite web|url=http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/18519123/the-national-anthem-experience#!ourflagwasstillthere|title=Understand why the national anthem is a protest, every time it's sung}}

= Survival living =

ARHS is one of the few schools in the nation to offer a Wilderness Survival program.{{cite web|url=http://www.arps.org/users/hs/kropfa/OCSLWebsite/slabout.html |title=ARHS Survival Living: About |access-date=2011-05-31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928024443/http://www.arps.org/users/hs/kropfa/OCSLWebsite/slabout.html |archive-date=2011-09-28 }}

Notable alumni

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References

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Category:Public high schools in Massachusetts

Category:High schools in Hampshire County, Massachusetts

Category:Educational buildings in Amherst, Massachusetts

Category:1956 establishments in Massachusetts

Category:Educational institutions established in 1956