Duxbury High School

The 2023 total school population was 888 students, a figure 4% less than enrollment in 2019 and 8% less than enrollment in 2018.{{Cite web|title=School and District Report Cards - Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education|url=https://reportcards.doe.mass.edu/2020/00820505|access-date=2021-06-25|website=reportcards.doe.mass.edu}}

Of the total number of students enrolled in Duxbury High School in 2023, 18.1% are High Need Students, 6.8% are Economically Disadvantaged, 0.3% are English Language Learners, 12.8% are Disabled, 0.3% are African-American, 1.6% are Asian-American, 2.8% are Hispanic, 3.2% are Multiracial, and 91.8% are White.

Of the 78 full-time teaching staff, 99.2% are licensed teachers and 89.2% are licensed teachers in the subject they teach.

In 2011, Duxbury High School was ranked #13 of all public Massachusetts high schools and #272 of national public high schools by U.S. News & World Report, while Boston Magazine ranked Duxbury High School #27 among 150 greater-Boston public high schools in the same year.{{Cite web|title=Best Public High Schools in Boston|url=https://www.bostonmagazine.com/education/best-public-high-schools-boston-2018-chart/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181009211530/https://www.bostonmagazine.com/education/best-public-high-schools-boston-2018-chart/ |archive-date=2018-10-09 }}

In 2017, U.S. News & World Report ranked the school #17 in Massachusetts and #271 nationally, while Boston Magazine ranked it #47 among greater-Boston area public high schools. The Massachusetts Department of Education placed Duxbury High School in the 92nd percentile of Massachusetts public high schools in 2017.{{Cite web|title=2017 Report Card Overview - Duxbury High (00820505)|url=https://profiles.doe.mass.edu/reportcard/SchoolReportCardOverview.aspx?fycode=2017&orgcode=00820505&|access-date=2021-06-25|website=profiles.doe.mass.edu}}

In 2020, the Massachusetts DoE classified Duxbury High School as a "School of Recognition" overall, placing it in the 99th percentile of public high schools in Massachusetts.

71.8% of students have access to participate in an arts course. 83.1% of 11th and 12th grade students have completed at least one advanced course, including Advanced Placement. 95.9% of 9th grade students pass all of their courses. 100% of students complete the [https://www.doe.mass.edu/ccte/ccr/masscore/ MassCore] program of studies.

Students who take the SAT averaged a score of 590 in Reading and 591 in Math in 2017.{{Cite web|title=2017 Report Card Overview - Duxbury High (00820505)|url=https://profiles.doe.mass.edu/reportcard/SchoolReportCardOverview.aspx?fycode=2017&orgcode=00820505&|access-date=2021-06-25|website=profiles.doe.mass.edu}} Students who scored a passing grade of 3 or higher on Advanced Placement examinations accounted for 73% in 2017. Students in the 10th grade who met or exceeded expectations on the MCAS ELA, Math, and Science portions numbered 89%, 86%, and 97%, respectively.

The total dollars spent per student amounted to $16,037 in 2020, $15,960 of which (all except $77) came from local and state funds.

The four-year graduation rate is 98.8%, with 86.1% matriculating to a 4-year university and 2% matriculating to a 2-year university.

The Duxbury Dragons have won the following state championships.{{cite web |title=Duxbury State Championships |url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1u6SMfUhUQwin11_tf3yBpazwcbUaV2o2VvgMbGIV58w/edit#gid=1015712868 |website=Athletics |publisher=Duxbury High School |access-date=19 November 2019}}{{better source needed|reason=self-sourced claim of superior accomplishments|date=April 2020}}

• Football: 2005(2A), 2008(2A), 2010(2A), 2011(2), 2016(2), 2022(4), & 2023(4) (Division in Parentheses)
• Boys’ Golf: 1988, 1989, 1996, 2000, 2007, 2010, and 2011
• Boys’ Soccer: 1976, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1988, 1994, 1999
• Girls’ Soccer: 1984, 1995, and 2009

• Boys’ Basketball: 1989, 1994, & 2006
• Girls’ Basketball: 1998 & 2015
• Boys’ Hockey: 2000, 2005, 2007, & 2019
• Girls’ Hockey: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2023 & 2024
• Girls’ Swimming: 2017, 2018, & 2020

• Boys’ Lacrosse: 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, and 2012
• Girls’ Lacrosse: 2007
• Girls’ Golf: 2001
• Sailing: New England Team Racing Champions 2009, Herreshoff Trophy (Women's New England Fleet Racing Championship) 2013{{citation needed|reason=neither listed in cited source of state championships|date=November 2019}}
• Boys’ Crew: 2018, 2023
• Girls’ Crew: 2018
• Girls’ Track: 1986
• Boys’ Tennis: 1980, 1981, 1983, 1989, 1994, 2013, and 2023

From 1981 to 1985, the Duxbury High School boys soccer team won 72 consecutive games, which is still the longest winning streak in United States history. Those Dragon teams were coached by Foster Cass, who retired with a state record 958 coaching wins in three sports.

Max Quinzani set the United States high school lacrosse record for points in a career with 577. https://www.patriotledger.com/story/sports/college/2008/04/23/max-quinzani-duxbury-is-maximizing/40173470007/

The first high school in Duxbury was established as a private secondary school on Tremont and Depot Streets at the behest of U.S. Congressman George Partridge in 1844.{{Cite book|last=Browne|first=Patrick T.J.|title=Duxbury Past and Present|publisher=The Duxbury Rural and Historical Society|year=2009|location=Duxbury, Massachusetts|pages=4ff}} A public high school in the town of Duxbury was first proposed in 1866.{{Cite book|title=The Duxbury Book: 1637-1987|publisher=The Duxbury Rural and Historical Society|year=1987|editor-last=Pillsbury|editor-first=Katherine H.|location=Duxbury, Massachusetts|pages=185ff}} Public secondary education in Duxbury was originally conducted in privately-owned buildings throughout the town. The town was unable to afford teachers' salaries from the outset. In 1868, an agreement between the Partridge Academy Trustees and the Town of Duxbury was reached, which allowed Duxbury's high school-age residents to attend the Partridge Academy. The Duxbury High School football team was established in the 1925-1926 school year, while schooling continued at Partridge Academy.

In 1927, a new high school building was constructed at 77 Alden Street for $85,000. The building served as the town's high school until the early 60's and as an elementary school until 1997, when the Duxbury Free Library moved from the Wright Building to occupy 77 Alden Street. Beginning in the early 60's, Duxbury High School occupied two sites on Saint George Street, where it remained until 2013, when both buildings were razed and replaced with playing fields. The present building housing the high school is located at 71 Alden Street.

• Peter Chandler, class of 1971,{{Cite book|url=http://archive.org/details/partridge1971duxb|title=Partridge|date=1971|publisher=Duxbury High School|others=Duxbury Free Library}} professional soccer player
• Peter Teravainen, class of 1973,{{Cite book|url=http://archive.org/details/partridge1973duxb|title=Partridge|date=1973|publisher=Duxbury High School|others=Duxbury Free Library}} former professional golfer
• Stet Howland, class of 1978,{{Cite book|url=http://archive.org/details/partridge1978duxb|title=Partridge|date=1978|publisher=Duxbury High School|others=Duxbury Free Library}} professional rock and metal drummer
• Juliana Hatfield, class of 1985,{{Cite book|url=http://archive.org/details/partridge1985duxb|title=Partridge|date=1985|publisher=Duxbury High School|others=Duxbury Free Library}} indie rock singer
• Bill Curley, class of 1990,{{Cite book|url=http://archive.org/details/partridge1990duxb|title=Partridge|date=1990|publisher=Duxbury High School|others=Duxbury Free Library}} NBA forward and Boston College athletic Hall-of-Famer
• Will Miller, class of 2002,{{Cite book|url=http://archive.org/details/partridge2002duxb|title=Partridge|date=2002|publisher=Duxbury High School|others=Duxbury Free Library}} Team USA 2012 Olympic Games, 4th in men's eight rowing{{Cite web|title=Tean USA 2012 Olympic Rowing|url=https://www.teamusa.org/us-rowing/athletes/will-miller|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150914174113/http://www.teamusa.org/us-rowing/athletes/Will-Miller |archive-date=2015-09-14 }}
• Max Quinzani, class of 2006, MLL player

In 1996, the Duxbury baseball team was involved in a scandal that made national news.

As described in the New York Times, "On the way home from playing a game against a town on Cape Cod, 31 members of the varsity and junior varsity squads, dressed in their uniforms, stopped at a convenience store in Sagamore Beach and helped themselves to candy bars, baseball cards and bottles of soda. Then, without paying, they sauntered out of the store and got back on the team bus with more than $100 worth of merchandise." It was eventually learned that the shoplifting spree at this particular store was an "annual tradition" of the baseball team.

The team was subsequently forced to forfeit the remainder of their games and make restitution to the store owner.

https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/05/us/a-team-s-shoplifting-spree-shocks-quiet-boston-suburb.html

During a March 12, 2021 game against rival Plymouth North High School, Duxbury High School football players were heard using anti-Semitic words and potentially other derogatory language as part of their play-calling system.{{Cite web|date=2021-03-24|title=Football players used anti-Semitic language at game|url=https://www.duxburyclipper.com/articles/football-players-used-intolerant-language-at-game/|access-date=2021-06-23|website=Duxbury Clipper}} The incident sparked international{{Cite web|last=Rosenberg|first=Steven|title=Report finds history of antisemitism on Boston-area high school football team|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-finds-history-of-antisemitism-on-boston-area-high-school-football-team/|access-date=2021-06-23|website=www.timesofisrael.com|language=en-US}} and national attention in the weeks following its discovery and elicited public statements from virtually every party to the incident, including the Anti-Defamation League.{{Cite news|last=Levenson|first=Michael|date=2021-03-24|title=High School Football Coach Is Fired After Players' Use of Anti-Semitic Language|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/24/us/dave-maimaron-duxbury-fired.html|access-date=2021-06-23|issn=0362-4331}} By March 24, 2021, Head Coach Dave Maimaron had been terminated in his position at the Duxbury High School football program and placed on paid administrative leave in his position as a special education instructor at the Duxbury High School.{{Cite web|first=Trevor|last=Hass|date=2021-03-24|title=Duxbury fires head football coach Dave Maimaron|url=https://www.duxburyclipper.com/articles/duxbury-fires-head-football-coach-dave-maimaron/|access-date=2021-06-23|website=Duxbury Clipper}} Duxbury Public Schools Superintendent John Antonucci announced that an investigation into the etiology and pervasiveness of anti-Semitic or otherwise offensive language was underway and contracted to Just Training Solutions, LLC by March 24.

On June 7, 2021, the results of the investigation conducted by Just Training Solutions, LLC were submitted in a 56-page document to Superintendent John Antonucci, who summarized the report in a document made publicly available on June 10, 2021.{{Cite web|last=Antonucci|first=John|date=June 10, 2021|title=Summary Report on the Investigation into Duxbury High School Football Program|url=https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/20805884/summary_report_on_the_investigation_into_duxbury_high_school_football_program_june_10_2021.pdf|url-status=live|access-date=June 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624204700/https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/20805884/summary_report_on_the_investigation_into_duxbury_high_school_football_program_june_10_2021.pdf |archive-date=2021-06-24 }}{{Cite web|date=2021-06-16|title=Bad language, poor behavior|url=https://www.duxburyclipper.com/articles/bad-language-poor-behavior/|access-date=2021-06-23|website=Duxbury Clipper}} The investigation concluded that anti-Semitic language and references to the Holocaust by members of the Duxbury High School football program were in violation of the School District’s Vision-Values-Mission-Goals Policy, its Harassment Policy, and its Staff Conduct Policy. These violations took the form of using the words "Auschwitz," "Rabbi," and "Dreidel" to call plays at the line-of-scrimmage since 2010-2012. Additionally, the report concluded, "Coaching staff engaged in profane and vulgar language and condoned the use of profane and vulgar language by students." Finally, the report concluded that the football program violated the aforementioned School District policies in addition to the School Ceremonies and Observance Policy inasmuch as Catholic worship and prayer was integrated into the football program's preparation for competitions.

Mr. Maimaron submitted his resignation from his teaching position at Duxbury Public Schools to Superintendent Antonucci on June 7, 2021.{{Cite web|last1=Ellement|first1=John R.|first2=Nick|last2=Stoico|date=June 11, 2021|title=Duxbury High football team used antisemitic audibles since 2010 in practice, investigator reports|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/06/11/metro/duxbury-high-football-team-used-antisemitic-audibles-since-2010-practice-investigator-reports/|access-date=2021-06-23|website=BostonGlobe.com|language=en-US}}

In June 2021, Duxbury High School Principal Jim Donovan announced that the contract of Thom Holdgate, who has been the school's Director of Athletics and Wellness for 19 years, would not be continued into the 2021-2022 school year.{{Cite web|date=2021-06-23|title=Holdgate let go|url=https://www.duxburyclipper.com/articles/holdgate-let-go/|access-date=2021-06-23|website=Duxbury Clipper}}

Joseph Parker Foley was a graduate of the Duxbury Public Schools who died of an accidental drug overdose at the age of 27 years old in October 2020. As a sixth-grade student of Duxbury Middle School in 2006, Mr. Foley's gym teacher was John Blake, a middle school physical education instruction and long-time varsity men's hockey coach.

On March 31, 2021, the Estate of Mr. Foley filed a civil lawsuit in Plymouth Superior Court against the Duxbury Public Schools and John Blake, seeking $1MM in damages.{{Cite web |title=DocumentCloud |url=https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20619071-dmass_1_21-cv-10615-adb_1_0 |access-date=2022-12-14 |website=www.documentcloud.org}} In the suit, the estate of Mr. Foley alleged that Mr. Blake repeatedly sexually abused the sixth-grader, Mr. Foley, beginning in 2006 during gym class, while it named the Duxbury Public Schools as grossly negligent, reckless, and/or callously indifferent about their student, Mr. Foley's, health, welfare, and safety.{{Cite web|date=2021-07-14 |title=Blake called not credible|url=https://www.duxburyclipper.com/articles/blake-called-not-credible/ |access-date=2022-12-14 |website=Duxbury Clipper}} Mr. Foley's subsequent drug use and accidentally lethal overdose was noted as a result of the sexual abuse he suffered as a Duxbury Middle School student at the hands of his teacher.{{Cite web |title=Former Duxbury Gym Teacher Denies Accusations He Raped Student 15 Years Ago |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/duxbury-gym-teacher-hockey-coach-john-blake-accused-rape-parker-foley/ |access-date=2022-12-14 |website=www.cbsnews.com |language=en-US}}

By April 2021, the Duxbury Public Schools terminated Mr. Blake's more-than two-decade career as an educator and coach.{{Cite web |title=Duxbury Gym Teacher Accused Of Rape Files Counterclaim |url=https://www.wbur.org/news/2021/06/10/duxbury-gym-teacher-accused-of-rape-files-counterclaim |access-date=2022-12-14 |website=www.wbur.org |language=en}} An independent investigation commissioned by the Duxbury School Department found that the allegations against Mr. Blake, including his sexual abuse of Mr. Foley and his sexual relationship with a colleague, were credible and in violation of the staff code of conduct.{{Cite web |date=2022-12-14 |title=Settlement reached in Parker Foley lawsuit|url=https://www.duxburyclipper.com/articles/settlement-reached-in-parker-foley-lawsuit/ |access-date=2022-12-14 |website=Duxbury Clipper}}

The suit was removed to the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts that same month, upon the petition of the school district's attorneys, Pierce Davis & Perritano LLP.

As of December 2022, Joseph Morgan, attorney for the estate of Mr. Foley, announced that plaintiffs reached a monetary settlement with the Duxbury Public Schools.{{Cite web |date=2022-12-14 |title=Settlement reached in Parker Foley lawsuit |url=https://www.duxburyclipper.com/articles/settlement-reached-in-parker-foley-lawsuit/ |access-date=2022-12-14 |website=Duxbury Clipper}}

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• {{official website|https://www.duxbury.k12.ma.us/Domain/8}}
• [https://www.duxbury.k12.ma.us/ Duxbury Public Schools website]
• [http://profiles.doe.mass.edu/general/general.aspx?topNavID=1&leftNavId=100&orgcode=00820000&orgtypecode=5 Duxbury School District Profile]

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