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{{Infobox school
| name = Newburyport High School
| image = Newburyport High School.jpg
| imagesize = 300px
| caption =
| streetaddress = 241 High Street
| city = [[Newburyport, Massachusetts|Newburyport]]
| state = [[Massachusetts]]
| zipcode = 01950
| country = United States
| coordinates = {{coord|42|48|47|N|70|53|10|W|display=inline,title}}
| district = Newburyport Public Schools
| principal = Andrew Wulf <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newburyportnews.com/news/local_news/veteran-salem-educator-named-new-nhs-principal/article_75bbba0e-1ad2-59b2-9e5c-aa9dd9b515e5.html|title=Veteran Salem educator named new NHS principal|first=Amanda|last=Getchell|website=The Daily News of Newburyport}}</ref>
| faculty = ~100
| ceeb = 221510
| national_ranking = 
| classes = 
| classes_offered = 
| avg_class_size = 
| SAT = 584 verbal<br />585 math<br />1169 total (2017-2018)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://profiles.doe.mass.edu/statereport/sat.aspx|title=Massachusetts Department Of Elementary And Secondary Education - 2017-18 SAT Performance Report - All Students Statewide Report|website=profiles.doe.mass.edu}}</ref>
| gender = [[Mixed-sex education|Co-Ed]]
| schooltype = [[Public school (government funded)|Public]] [[High school (North America)|High School]]
| grades = [[Ninth grade|9]]–[[Twelfth grade|12]]
| campus type = Suburban
| conference = [[Cape Ann League]]
| song = "Alma Mater"
| accreditation = [[New England Association of Schools and Colleges]]
| rival = [[Amesbury High School]]
| mascot = [[Clipper|Clipper Ship]]
| team_name = Newburyport Clippers
| nickname = 
| school_colors = {{Color box|#7a303f}} Crimson <br>{{Color box|#d0b787}} Old Gold
| yearbook = En-Aitch-Ess (NHS)
| publication = ''Record Magazine''
| newspaper = Masthead
| established = 1831
| status = Open
| ratio = 11.07<ref name=NCES/>
| teaching_staff = 70.90 (FTE)<ref name=NCES/>
| enrollment = 785 (2023–2024)<ref name=NCES>{{cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=2508580&ID=250858001354|title=Newburyport High|publisher=National Center for Education Statistics|access-date=May 20, 2025}}</ref>
| free_label = Building designer
| free_text = Edwin S. Dodge
| homepage = {{URL|https://www.newburyport.k12.ma.us/nhs|newburyport.k12.ma.us/nhs}}
}}

'''Newburyport High School''' ('''NHS''') is a [[State school|public]] [[Secondary school|high school]] serving students in [[Ninth grade|ninth]] through [[Twelfth grade|twelfth]] grades in [[Newburyport, Massachusetts]], United States and is part of the Newburyport Public School System. It was established in 1831 and is one of [[List of the oldest public high schools in the United States|the oldest public schools in the United States of America]].

==History==
In 1868, the '''Latin and English High School''' (1831), later called the '''Brown High School''' (1851); the '''Putnam Free School''' (1838);<ref name=Adams1853>{{cite book|title= Massachusetts Register |year=1853 |author=George Adams |location=Boston |publisher=Printed by Damrell and Moore |chapter=Education in Massachusetts: Incorporated Academies |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=MScDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA266 }}</ref> and the '''Female High School''' (1843) merged to form the '''Consolidated High and Putnam School'''. In 1889, the name changed to Newburyport High School.<ref>Sixty-Fifth Edition of ''The Clipper Compass: A Student Handbook'' for 2005–2006</ref>

The current site of Newburyport High School was purchased from Alice Atkinson in 1935, and the deed was recorded at the Southern Essex County Registry of Deeds as Book 3030, Page 279 in March 1935.

==Extracurricular activities==

===Athletics===
Newburyport High School competes in the [[Cape Ann League]] in several interscholastic sports.

{{div col|colwidth=20em}}
*Fall sports
** Cross Country
** Field Hockey
** Football
** Golf
** Soccer
** Volleyball
*Winter sports
** Ice Hockey
** Indoor Track
** Ski Racing
** Basketball
*Spring sports
**Baseball
**Lacrosse
**Softball
**Tennis
**Track & Field
{{div col end}}

==Notable alumni==
{{alumni|date=June 2019}}
* [[Kate Bolick]], author
* [[Charles R. Cross (physicist)|Charles R. Cross]], physicist
* [[Harry Curtis (baseball)|Harry Curtis]], former [[MLB]] player ([[New York Giants (MLB)|New York Giants]])
* [[Georgia Dabritz]], former artistic gymnast, [[Utah Red Rocks]] team member.
* [[Angelo Dagres]], former MLB player ([[Baltimore Orioles]])
* [[Joe Keery]], actor
* [[John Phillips Marquand]], [[Pulitzer Prize]] winning author
* [[Chet Nourse]], former MLB player ([[Boston Red Sox]])
* [[Lothrop Withington]], genealogist and victim of the Lusitania sinking<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-daily-globe-lothrop-withingto/172104179/ |title=Lothrop Withington, A Lusitania Victim |date=1915-05-16 |newspaper=The Boston Sunday Globe |page=15 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |access-date=2025-05-10}}{{Open access}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.newburyport.k12.ma.us/high/ High School website]
*[http://www.newburyport.k12.ma.us/ School District website]
{{Massachusetts Public High Schools}}
{{Cape Ann League}}
{{Authority control}}

[[Category:Cape Ann League]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures in Newburyport, Massachusetts]]
[[Category:High schools in Essex County, Massachusetts]]
[[Category:Public high schools in Massachusetts]]

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