Silver Lake Regional High School
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| Established | 1955 |
| Type | Public |
| Principal | Richard Kelley |
| Faculty | 100 (approx.) |
| Students | 1,118 (approx.) |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Location | Kingston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Campus | 300 acres (1.2 km2) |
| Colors | Red, White & Silver |
| Nickname | Lakers |
| Website | www.slrsd.org |
Silver Lake Regional High School is a public, regional high school in Massachusetts' South Shore region. It serves as the secondary school for the Silver Lake Regional School District, comprising the towns of Kingston, Plympton and Halifax, Massachusetts. Prior to 2004, Silver Lake Regional School District included the town of Pembroke, Massachusetts.
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[edit] History
Silver Lake Regional High School was founded in 1955, comprising the towns of Pembroke, Kingston, Plympton, Halifax and Carver in southeastern Massachusetts. Beginning with the 1959 school year, Carver students began attending Middleboro High School instead, before joining the Plymouth-Carver regional school district in 1963; the district's composition remained stable for four decades thereafter.
The 1955 high school building stood until 2005 when it was torn down; however, the original football field, Sirrico Field, remains. The Silver Lake campus eventually grew too small for the growing populations of the towns - their combined population nearly trebled between the founding of the district and 1970 - and by 1970, the high school was on split sessions, becoming double sessions by 1975 and only eased by the construction of a second campus in Pembroke in 1976. Continued overcrowding in the school led Pembroke (with a population by 2000 half again what it was in 1970) to withdraw from the district and form its own independent school district in 2002; its students were still enrolled in Silver Lake until 2004.
Because of overcrowding and an outdated school a new high school was constructed on the site of the original building, which opened in 2004. The school is one of the most expensive standing in Massachusetts and is right next to the new Silver Lake Middle School.
The school was cited in Boston magazine as being one of the 2008 fifty top schools in eastern Massachusetts [1].
[edit] Athletics
The name for the Silver Lake teams is the Lakers and their mascot is a pirate.
For 50 years Silver Lake competed in Division I athletics in the Old Colony League in the MIAA. The school boasts a largely successful football program (1980 Division III Super Bowl Champions) and was regionally known for excelling in basketball (in which it won a state title in 1960, coached by future Boston Celtics assistant coach John Killelea), hockey (in which it reached the state finals in 1978) and soccer (in which it won a state title in 1988).
In 2005, after the withdrawal of the town of Pembroke, Silver Lake began competing in Division II. The Lakers now compete in the Patriot League of southeastern Massachusetts.
For most of its existence, Silver Lake's chief rival was Plymouth-Carver Regional High School, until the breakup of Plymouth-Carver into three separate high schools in 1988; thereafter, until the district's demerger, its chief rival was Bridgewater-Raynham Regional High School. The most notable current school rivalries are with Pembroke High School and Duxbury High School.
[edit] Notable alumni
- Vinny deMacedo, class of 1983 - Massachusetts state legislator.
- Ben Edlund, class of 1986 - Creator of The Tick comic book series and co-creator of the science fiction television show, Firefly.
- Rachel Entwistle, class of 1997 - Murder victim.
- Eric Flaim, class of 1985 - A four-time Olympian (1988, 1992, 1994, 1998) and holder of two silver medals (1500 meter Long Track, 1988; 5000 meter Short Track relay, 1994), Eric is the first American to medal in two different winter Olympic sports.
- Pat Seltsam - World Cup silver medalist speedskater.
- Kevin Stevens, class of 1983 - NHL All-Star left winger and two-time Stanley Cup Champion with the Pittsburgh Penguins.
- Buddy Teevens, class of 1974 - Dartmouth and Stanford football coach.
- Keith Terceira, class of 1977 (76 Army enlistment) USA Boxing Coach.
- Cleon Turner, Massachusetts state legislator.[1]
[edit] References
Coordinates: 42°0′55.1″N 70°47′8.5″W / 42.015306°N 70.785694°W
