Newfound Regional High School (NRHS) is a public

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, United States. Surrounding towns that attend NRHS are

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, Bridgewater,

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, Groton,

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, and New Hampton. The school is part of the Newfound Area School District (NASD) and was originally named Newfound Memorial High School. It was originally located where Newfound Memorial Middle School currently stands until the present high school building was constructed in 1989. Newfound Regional High School was awarded "NH Excellence in Education" in 2010. Newfound Regional High School's motto is "Choose your path to success...make a commitment."

School district

Newfound Regional High School is part of School Administrative Unit 4. The

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of Schools is Paul Hoiriis. NRHS is the only high school within the district, and the school board approves most of the decisions. There is currently one high school, one middle school, and four elementary schools located within the district.

Administration

Newfound Regional High School has one principal, one vice principal, and multiple administrative staff positions: Paul Hoiriis became the current principal on July 1, 2015. The past principal, Michael O'Malley, retired at the end of the 2014-2015 school calendar. He had served the district for 30 years.

School culture

Newfound has 34 full-time teachers and 402 students. There is a 6% minority enrollment, mostly made of

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s and

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. According to , Newfound Regional High School is ranked #11 in Best High Schools in New Hampshire in 2015. Newfound Regional High School has an 81% proficiency in reading, while 37% proficient in mathematics.

School board

The

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for the Newfound Area School District is made up of one member from each of the seven towns, elected district-wide by ballot on election day. Current members are Melissa Suckling of Danbury (Chair), Kimberly Bliss of Alexandria (Vice Chair), Dominic Halle of Bridgewater, Joseph Maloney of Bristol, William Jolly of Groton, Jennifer Larochelle of Hebron, and Fran Wendleboe of New Hampton.

Student activities

Student activities at Newfound include

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, Student Council, Math Team, Outing Club, Art Club, Cooking Club, E-Cubed, Geek Culture Club,

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, Leo's Club, Literary Magazine, Project Promise, Tech Crew, Student-Staff Senate,

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, and

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. Newfound offers three varsity sports in the fall:

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, unified soccer, and

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. Newfound also offers cross country in the fall. Newfound offers both varsity and

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, Unified Basketball in the winter, as well as spirit and

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. In the spring, Newfound offers varsity and junior varsity

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and

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, as well as

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Student-Staff Senate

The Student-Staff Senate (SSS) is made up of students and staff who work on changes to the school. Student-Staff Senate works like the U.S Senate. SSS has

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s and subcommittees for each area of topics. SSS currently has 11 subcommittees, including Advisories, Portfolio, Project Promise / Clubs, Performance Assessment, Public Relations, Challenge Day, Change Culture, Student

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, Student/Staff Voice,

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, and

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. During meetings and proposals, SSS uses

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. The main purpose of this Senate is to have student and staff, alike, convene with each other and use the Senate as a way to discuss matters that the students and teachers bring up.

Student Council

Student Council is made up by the student body along with adult adviser(s). Student Council plans events such as

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, spring fling, etc. Newfound Student Council follows their own

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that they've written up and approved by the council. Student Council has separate committees and subcommittees to focus on specific areas. Student Council meetings are run by parliamentary procedures. In order for a Student Council meeting to be in session, there must be a

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that is met. Along with a quorum, in order to pass approvals (e.g.: fundraiser requests, agendas, ideas, etc.) the body must agree with a majority vote.

Members

Members are selected in various ways. In order to obtain a membership within Student Council you must: * request to become members-at-large * be a student representative to the school board (elected by the entire student body) * be a Student Council representative (elected by your class) * be a Vice President of your class (elected by your class)

Yearbook

Newfound Regional High School has a body of students who create the annual yearbook. Newfound uses

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as their primary yearbook company. Each year, they will dedicate the yearbook to an educator or administrator who exceeded expectations, or to someone who served at NRHS for a long time and is either retiring or leaving their position. The 2014-2015 yearbook was dedicated to Mr. O'Malley who is currently the principal, but will be retiring at the end of this school year. He had served the district for 30 years.

Project Promise

Project Promise is a program offered at NRHS along with other schools in NASD. Project Promise is a program that focuses on academic achievement in various subjects, physical and nutritional programs, and to infuse concepts of learning lifelong habits in hopes to connect with the real world. Project Promise branches off with many of the extra-curricular programs offered at the school. Cooking Club, Fashion Club, Zumba, Homework Club, Fitness Club, Japanese Culture Club, Outdoor Club, Geek Culture Club is all a part of Project Promise. NRHS Project Promise's goal is to "'' create a safe place that fosters youth voice and excitement among our participants.''" Project Promise is also a place where they help students transition after high school, and to give students opportunities to be leaders and mentor.

Athletics

Newfound Regional High School is a Division III high school. The only two sports teams that are not in Division III are the spirit team and the football team, which are in Division IV. Newfound offers soccer, field hockey, football, and cross country in the fall. In the winter, they offer basketball, spirit, and alpine skiing. In the spring, Newfound offers baseball, softball, and track and field. The field hockey team were the state champions in 2006 and won back-to-back state championships in 2008 and 2009. In 2017 the field hockey team won the D-III state championship.

Football

The Newfound Regional High School football program started in 2004 but was not funded by the school district. In spite of that, the community created an organization to support the program. It was not until 2008 that the school board approved of supporting the school's football program. In 2005, the Newfound football team won the New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association Sportsmanship Award. Since the beginning of the program, Newfound has yet to win any state titles or runners-up. On August 23, 2012, Newfound Regional High School added a football field next to the school campus. The school board approved adding a football field at the high school but stated that it would have to come from the taxpayers. To avoid that, the non-profit organization "Friends of Newfound Football" raised enough donations to avoid the expense paid by the taxpayers. Before the addition of the new football field, Newfound was practicing and playing "home" games at the

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. Newfound's first home game at their new field was on September 8, 2013, against Winnisquam Regional High School. The football field was named "Morrison Field". From the start of the project to the end of the project, it took nine years all together for the field to be ready to be played on. On November 4, 2018, against Franklin High School, the first ever home state playoff game was held at Morrison Field.

Track and field

The boys' track and field program first started in 1980 by Earl Mills, who ran the program until 1998. Newfound boys' track and field has had 14 individual state champions, along with two state

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champions. The following table shows the individual championships: The girls' track and field team has produced 15 individual state champions since 2004. The first coach for the Newfound girls' track and field team was Peter Cornelissen. The following are the girls' individual championships from Newfound:

Field hockey

The Newfound field hockey team has won four state championships since 2009, most recently in 2017. Ann Hall started the program in 1974, but retired the next year. Karri Peterson has been the current field hockey coach since 2004. The team has won four state championships in Class M/S and D-III under Peterson. Here is the following table:

Girls' basketball

The Newfound girls' basketball team were state champions in 1972 under Class A, and were state runners-up in 1973, 1988, and 2007. 11 Newfound players have scored more than 1,000 points during their high school varsity careers. Ann Hall was the first coach known to have coached the girls' basketball team. The current coach is Karri Peterson, a 1,000-point scorer herself. She also coaches the field hockey team. The latest 1,000 point scorer to Newfound was Ashlee Dukette in 2018. She also became the first Newfound basketball player to achieve 1,000 rebounds, in 2019. The following table shows the 12 players, and their points achieved overall:

Boys' basketball

The boys' basketball team were state champions in 1995. The coach then was Dan Peters. There are seven players who have scored 1,000 points in their high school varsity careers:

Boys' cross country

Newfound's boys' cross country team was founded in 1978. The team has won state championships in class M/S in 1985, 1986, and 1987, and were runners up in 1990, 2003, and most recently, in 2021. The team had a class S individual championship in 1953.

Girls' cross country

Newfound's girls' cross country was founded in 1978. The team had an individual championship winner in 2005 and 2006.

Communities

Newfound Regional High School serves the New Hampshire towns of

, Bridgewater,

, Groton,

and New Hampton. On March 18,

residents voted to withdraw from the

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School District and join Newfound. With two more votes agreeing with the motion, Hill will now have a 10-year tuition agreement with Newfound. The final vote was 75-73. Newfound students sometimes go to the Tapply Thompson Community Center (TTCC) to help out elementary students, or is there for a recreational event.

Annual spring musical

Every spring, the Newfound Drama Department hosts the annual school

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. The community and students from NRHS auditions for roles that they want. The musical usually occur in late April, and they start practicing around February to prepare for the show. The director of the spring musical is Stephanie Wienchek, and she herself was an actor. The spring play had been an annual tradition for 34 years. This year's performance was

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Academics

Newfound offers

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courses. They offer AP Calculus, AP Computer Science, AP US History, and AP Biology. Newfound also offers Virtual Learning Academy Charter School. Also, Newfound offers

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courses, such as accounting. Newfound also offers Extended Learning Opportunities (ELO). Some courses Newfound has to offer are:

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I, II, III, IV, V;

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I, II, III, IV, V;

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, Modern European History,

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I, II, III AP;

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;

Chemistry Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a physical science within the natural sciences that studies the chemical elements that make up matter and chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules a ...

; Living on Your Own (LOYO); Family & Consumer Science. Newfound has partnered up with

Plymouth Regional High School Plymouth Regional High School (PRHS) is a public high school in Plymouth, New Hampshire, United States. Surrounding towns that attend PRHS are Plymouth, Ashland, Holderness, Campton, Rumney, Wentworth, Warren, Ellsworth, Waterville Valley an ...

so that Newfound can send its students to PRHS for classes such as:

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, and

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. Newfound has to pay PRHS based on

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basis. Currently, there are 23 CTE students that go to Plymouth Regional High School.

Grades and grading

Newfound goes off of the

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and

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continuum. Most of the teachers weigh the summatives as 90% of the overall grade for the quarter and 10% formatives for the overall grade for the quarter. Each quarter (4) is 20% of the overall grade, and exams ( midterm/

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) are 20% of the final grade. So they factor in 80% from the four quarters, and 20% from the midterm grade and the final exams. That adds up to 100% for the final grade. Formatives would be

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, short essays, and

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. Most of the time, these materials would get you ready for the Summatives. Summatives would be quizzes (sometimes formative), projects, tests, etc. The following table shows the grading table that Newfound goes off of:

Awards

Newfound Regional High School has received some awards as a school, and also as individual awards recognized by the State of New Hampshire and/or individual organizations:

Gallery

File:Newfound Soccer Payers.jpg, Newfound playing against Gilford High School at home. File:Class_of_2011_Graduation.jpg, The Class of 2011 Graduation Ceremony.

References

External links

School website

District website
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