Whitman-Hanson Regional High School

Whitman-Hanson Regional High School
Location
Map
600 Franklin St.
Hanson, Massachusetts 02341

United States
Coordinates42°04′10″N 70°54′28″W / 42.06944°N 70.90778°W / 42.06944; -70.90778
Information
TypePublic
Open enrollment[1]
Established1800S
PrincipalChristopher Jones
Grades9–12
Enrollment1,170 (2016–17)[2]
CampusSuburban
Color(s)Black & Red    
MascotPanther
RivalAbington High School
NewspaperThe Main Street Journal
YearbookRetrospect
Websitehttps://whs.whrsd.org/

Whitman-Hanson Regional High School is a public high school located in Hanson, Massachusetts, United States. The school serves students in grades 9-12 from the towns of Whitman, Massachusetts and Hanson, Massachusetts. It is part of the Whitman-Hanson Regional School District. The schools colors are Black & Red and the mascot is the Panther.

Until 1960, the school was called Whitman High School and was then located in an older building across from the Whitman Town Park and the Colebrook Cemetery in Whitman, MA. Both Whitman and Hanson students used the school, although at an even earlier time, the school had also housed students from other towns including Halifax, MA.

The old Whitman High School had become so crowded by the 1959-1960 academic year, classes were attended in split day schedules with the Freshman class attending in the afternoon. The new building was called Whitman-Hanson Regional High School and was open for classes and occupied in September 1960. It was located on Franklin Street at the town line of Whitman and Hanson, at a site in front of the current Whitman-Hanson Regional High School, built in 2005. (The building is now hidden from sight from Franklin Street).

  1. ^ "School Choice Receiving District Status" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-04-12. Retrieved 2017-04-10.
  2. ^ "Whitman Hanson Regional". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved February 22, 2019.
  3. ^ "Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education - 2019-20 SAT Performance Report - All Students Statewide Report".