North Middlesex Regional High School is a public high school located in Townsend, Massachusetts, United States in Middlesex County. It serves grades 912 primarily from Townsend, Pepperell, and Ashby. North Middlesex Regional High School has approximately 800 students. According to the official North Middlesex Regional School District website, North Middlesex is a comprehensive school accredited by the New England Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges. The professional staff includes approximately seventy-five full-time teachers, a library/media coordinator, an academic support center coordinator, four guidance counselors, three school nurses, a school psychologist, approximately fifteen teaching assistants, two assistant principals, one principal, and a resource officer.
History
The school was built in 1957-1959 and an addition was added in 1972. The citizens of the neighboring town of Mason, New Hampshire expressed an interest in possibly joining the North Middlesex District in 2006. However, the choice was voted down by New Ipswich and other members of Mason's current school district. In 2014 the towns of Pepperell, Ashby and Townsend voted for the construction of a new building. The new building opened for the 2017 school year. The adjacent older school's demolition was started in the fall of 2017. The older school was completely demolished in the summer of 2018. The school is also receiving a new track and turf field, which was to be completed in June 2019.
Extracurricular activities
North Middlesex Regional High School offers extracurricular opportunities for students to take. The clubs, sports, and art programs available allow every student can find a way to get involved in the school outside of the classroom. There are three vocal performing ensembles at North Middlesex. The women's choir, "Bella Voce," has received several gold medal ratings in recent years at state competitions. There are five instrumental performing ensembles, including the wind symphony, concert band, jazz band, marching band, and winter percussion ensemble. All of these ensembles have received many awards for their performance. The North Middlesex Tri-M Music Honor Society students also run Stars@Symphony, a two-day event that takes place at Mechanics Hall and Symphony Hall which showcases bands that receive gold medal ratings from the Massachusetts Instrumental and Choral Conductors Association. North Middlesex also offers Relay For Life.
Athletics
North Middlesex Regional High School hosts a large multitude of sports, they compete in the Midland Wachusett league, Mid-Wach for short. They play Fitchburg's St. Bernard's Central Catholic High School during the Thanksgiving rivalry game. St. Bernard's currently leads the series 3-1.
North Middlesex offers courses in mathematics, language arts, sciences, history, technology, world language, business, accounting, career opportunities, physical education, fine arts, and music.
