Manchester High School is a public high school located in Manchester, Connecticut , United States. It serves 1,700 students in the Manchester Public School system.
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48-636: A high school in Manchester, New Hampshire Manchester Township High School , Manchester Township, New Jersey Manchester High School (New Franklin, Ohio) Manchester High School (Manchester, Ohio) Manchester High School (Virginia) , Midlothian, Virginia Elsewhere [ edit ] Manchester High School, Jamaica , Mandeville, Jamaica Manchester High School for Girls , Manchester, England See also [ edit ] Manchester Essex Regional Middle/High School , Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
72-503: A modern browser. Hartwell and Richardson Hartwell and Richardson was a Boston , Massachusetts architectural firm established in 1881, by Henry Walker Hartwell (1833–1919) and William Cummings Richardson (1854–1935). The firm contributed significantly to the current building stock and architecture of the greater Boston area. Many of its buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places . Hartwell
96-547: A presentation room. The freshman wing is air-conditioned, unlike the rest of the school. Additional parts of the school were renovated, namely the 1100-seat Bailey Auditorium. The renovation brought a new stage, re-upholstered seats, air conditioning, and a new state-of-the-art sound system to Bailey Auditorium. The cafeteria was also expanded during the renovation, as well as the School Store and Student Activities office. The freshman wing and new auditorium and cafeteria opened for
120-401: A student is in the library, nurse's office and other locations equipped with swiping stations." Juniors in good academic standing have the option of late arrival and early release in place of a study hall at the beginning or end of the day. Seniors in good academic standing also have the privilege of late arrival and early release; they also have the privilege of open campus, and can swipe out of
144-578: Is a cluster of distinguished 1880s houses in the Avon Hill neighborhood of Cambridge. The firm's grandest surviving house is " Osgood Hill " (1886), the Moses T. Stevens estate in North Andover, Massachusetts . Here, Richardson closely followed H. H. Richardson , for both the red-sandstone, Romanesque-Revival mansion and the rustic gatehouse. The 153-acre estate is now a wedding and conference center. Two of
168-481: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Manchester High School (Connecticut) Manchester High School was founded in 1893 with Fred A. Verplanck serving as the school's first principal. The first graduating class of 1894 had a total of six students. The school was held in the Ninth District School, where Bennet Academy is located today. In 1902,
192-495: The 10th grade class evaluated during that testing cycle. Manchester High School offers soccer, football, cross country, swimming, wrestling, indoor and outdoor track and field, basketball, baseball, softball, volleyball, golf, tennis, cheerleading and hockey. MHS's main sports rivals are Glastonbury High School, East Hartford High School, South Windsor High School, and East Catholic High School. Since 2012, Manchester High School has gone through major changes in an attempt to improve
216-528: The 1881 partnership. Richardson was the principal designer in the firm, and Hartwell took care of the engineering and oversaw construction. The firm's clients tended to be successful businessmen, rather than Boston "society." Early on, the firm specialized in churches and municipal buildings. First Baptist Church (1881) in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Town Hall (1881) in Belmont, Massachusetts , both completed in
240-612: The 1980s, with a new wing being added as well as maintenance to keep up with safety regulations. This wing now houses the Bentley Alternative Education School. In 2007, a major expansion and renovation took place with the purpose of relieving the school's congestion. The main component of the expansion, the Freshman Center (commonly referred to as the freshman wing), extends off one of the quadrangle's hallways and contains classrooms, science labs, computer labs, and
264-602: The 2007-2008 school year, with a celebratory concert held in the just-renovated Bailey Auditorium. A ribbon-cutting ceremony accompanied the opening of the freshman wing on September 4, 2007. Manchester High School is regarded under the No Child Left Behind Act as having a school poverty percentage of 46% and a school minority percentage of 49.4%. These numbers are based on the Connecticut Academic Performance Test results from 2011 and reflect
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#1732880537907288-434: The beginning of the 2013-2014 school year, Manchester High School officially became a "Google school", and every student and staff member received a Google Chromebook , made possible with grants. The school has adapted Google Chrome as its main operating system, and the use of Chromebooks has exceeded that of desktops at Manchester High School. All work is stored virtually in the cloud, allowing access through any computer with
312-400: The building for lunch, or if they do not have a class. In 2012, Manchester High School launched a new website, "MHSRedline". MHSRedline was created to be a contemporary, dynamic, and mobile-friendly school website. During the school year, it is updated daily with news and school updates, and MHSRedline Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram pages have been created to accompany the website. At
336-500: The firm's churches offer a direct contrast: The Broadway Winter Hill Congregational Church (1890) in Somerville, Massachusetts is an informal, Shingle-Style composition. The Central Congregational Church (1895) in Newton, Massachusetts , composed of similar elements, is a more formal, Romanesque-Revival building, that would be symmetrical, absent the adjacent tower. Each probably reflected
360-659: The first year of the partnership, probably were Hartwell's designs. Richardson's polychromy added lightness to Christ Church (1882) in Andover, Massachusetts and the First Spiritual Temple (1885) in Boston, Massachusetts. Even in informal styles such as the Queen Anne or Shingle-Style , that allowed for enormous freedom, Richardson's designs were conservative, sometimes even symmetrical, but beautifully detailed. Of particular note
384-573: The late 1860s, he began a partnership with Albert E. Swasey, Jr. – Hartwell & Swasey – that lasted until 1877. He briefly paired with George Thomas Tilden , before beginning the partnership with Richardson. Richardson, twenty years younger than Hartwell, studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He won the Boston Society of Architects' 1875 prize as best young architect, and worked on his own until
408-491: The library and main office, are located in the "quadrangle", a set of four hallways connected to make a square. The cafeteria is next to the Brookfield Street parking lot and has its own entrance and lobby. The gymnasium is next to the cafeteria, and the pool and an additional gym are nearby. Also on the campus are baseball and softball fields, a soccer/football field, and a track. The school's first renovation took place in
432-514: The modern amenities of the time. It was dedicated in December 1904. The Town of Manchester purchased the property, and the school, from the Cheney family in 1928, when the school became Manchester High School. The yearbook, SOMANHIS ( So uth Man chester Hi gh S chool), was founded in 1915. Volume 100 was released in 2015. In 1956, a new campus on East Middle Turnpike opened. The graduating class of 1956
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480-527: The school and increase safety. Starting in 2012, Manchester High School became a "Swipe school", meaning that students have to swipe their ID cards in a machine every morning to track attendance. Swipe cost $ 47,355 to implement and costs about $ 6,000 a year to maintain. Its purpose is to reduce the number of students skipping classes. "Classroom teachers will be able to identify students who come to school but do not attend classes," former principal (now superintendent) Matthew Geary said. "Teachers also will know if
504-549: The wealthy Cheney family offered to construct a new high school building to accommodate the students' needs. In 1904, the new South Manchester High School opened on Main Street. The four-story building is in the Colonial Revival architecture style, with columns, cornices, and an arched entrance; these elaborate architectural details were designed by architects Hartwell, Richardson & Driver of Boston. The building included all of
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#1732880537907528-445: The wishes of the client, but they demonstrate that Richardson was accomplished in a range of styles. In 1895, with the addition of English architect James Driver (1859–1923), the firm became Hartwell, Richardson and Driver , and continued under that name until Driver's retirement in 1921. The name reverted to Hartwell and Richardson , even though Hartwell had died in 1919, and the firm continued until Richardson's death in 1935. In
552-458: Was the last class to graduate from the "old" school. The new Manchester High School is much larger than the original building, and was a state-of-the-art facility when it first opened. At the time of the opening of the new high school, Manchester High School was the largest secondary school in New England. In 2024, it is the current campus of Manchester High School. Most of the classrooms, as well as
576-574: Was the son of Boston painter Alonzo Hartwell . He did not attend college, and apprenticed with the architects Joseph E. and Hammatt Billings – ( Billings & Billings ). He opened his own office in 1856, and was one of the founding members of the Boston Society of Architects . He served in Company A of the 44th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry during the American Civil War . In
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