Amherst Regional High School (Massachusetts)

Amherst Regional High School is a secondary school in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States, for students in grades 9–12. Together with Amherst Regional Middle School, it makes up the Amherst-Pelham Regional School District, which comprises the towns of Amherst, Pelham, Leverett, and Shutesbury, Massachusetts. Its official colors are maroon and white. ARHS's current principal is Mark Jackson.AcademicsAmherst Regional High School ran on a trimester system until switching to a semester system in 2016. The students used to take five courses per trimester: normally, three to four were academics, and one to two were electives. Most academic classes ran for two trimesters. They ran either straight through or were broken up by the winter trimester. The exception to this was some social studies and English courses that were a trimester each and some music and higher-level courses that ran for all three trimesters. Under the current semester system, student take seven classes per semester.Extracurricular activitiesSportsThe school's sports teams are known as The Hurricanes.The boys cross-country team is listed in the top 110 high schools in America, and has won many Western Massachusetts championships as recent as 2013. The boys cross-country team's most recent victory tied them with the most Western Mass championships at 16.ARHS is one of many high schools in Massachusetts with a nationally ranked Ultimate program. The boys' and girls' Ultimate teams have both won the national championship several times; including the girl's program winning the national championship five consecutive times. The program hosts the annual Amherst Invitational Ultimate Tournament which pits 30 high school teams from across the country in one of the oldest and largest high school tournaments in the USA.