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| Casco Bay High School | |
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 Casco Bay High School in 2020 | |
| Address | |
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196 Allen Avenue (2nd floor) North Deering , Cumberland , 04103 United States | |
| Coordinates | 43°41′50″N 70°17′38″W / 43.6973°N 70.2940°W |
| Information | |
| School type | Public |
| Established | 2005 |
| School district | Portland Public Schools |
| CEEB code | 200804 |
| Principal | Derek Pierce |
| Teaching staff | 29.80 (FTE)[1] |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Number of students | 382 (2022-2023)[1] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 12.82[1] |
| Hours in school day | 6.5 |
| Color(s) | Teal and Black |
| Athletics | Ultimate Frisbee |
| Mascot | Cougar |
| Website | cbhs.portlandschools.org |
Casco Bay High School is a public high school in Portland, Maine, United States. Casco Bay High School describes itself as an Expeditionary Learning educational experience, which the school describes as being based on the Outward Bound learning system.[2]
Since the 2005–06 school year, the school has shared a facility with Portland Arts and Technology High School on Allen Avenue, in the city's North Deering neighborhood. Casco Bay is one of three public high schools within Portland Public Schools, the other two being Portland High School and Deering High School.[3] Unlike the other two high schools, however, enrollment at Casco Bay is only open by a lottery.[4]
Opening in 2005, Casco Bay High made Portland the first city in the United States to offer Expeditionary Learning from kindergarten to 12th grade.[5] Every year after, Casco Bay added a grade level, with 70 students per grade, and the school now has all grade levels attending (9-12) with 100 students per grade. The school has won numerous awards, and in 2012 was named the 8th best high school in Maine, and in 2018, it was named one of Maine’s top high schools by U.S. News & World Report,[6] and the #5 high school in Maine by Niche.com in 2019.[7] 98% of its graduates have been accepted to college.[8] It is also one of the few high schools in Maine to offer Independent Study courses to Junior and Senior students. These are student-designed courses that can range from a study of 19th-century Literature to an exploration of Quantum Mechanics[citation needed].
Casco Bay High School enrolls up to a maximum of 400 students per year, currently serving 391. [9]
- ^ a b c "Casco Bay High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved October 16, 2024.
- ^ "PARENT FIELD GUIDE TO CASCO BAY HIGH SCHOOL" (PDF). cbhs.portlandschools.org/. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 12, 2015.
- ^ "Schools". www.portlandschools.org. Retrieved April 17, 2020.
- ^ Writer, Rachel OhmStaff (September 23, 2021). "Enrollment gap between Portland and Deering prompts new look at high school choice". Press Herald. Retrieved April 16, 2022.
- ^ Canfield, Clark: "Outward Bound Schools Emphasize Learning By Doing", The Boston Globe, 2006.
- ^ "Maine High Schools". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved November 22, 2018.
- ^ "2019 Best Public High Schools in Maine". Niche. Retrieved November 22, 2018.
- ^ "Casco Bay High School Home". Casco Bay High School. Archived from the original on November 22, 2018. Retrieved November 22, 2018.
- ^ Writer, Rachel OhmStaff (September 23, 2021). "Enrollment gap between Portland and Deering prompts new look at high school choice". Press Herald. Retrieved April 16, 2022.