Lowell High School is a single-campus public high school located in downtown

Lowell, Massachusetts Lowell () is a city in Massachusetts, in the United States. Alongside Cambridge, It is one of two traditional seats of Middlesex County. With an estimated population of 115,554 in 2020, it was the fifth most populous city in Massachusetts as of ...

, United States. The school is a part of

Lowell Public Schools Lowell Public Schools is a school district headquartered in the Henry J. Mroz Central Administration Offices at the Edith Nourse Rogers School in Lowell, Massachusetts. In 1987 Mary Jane Mullen, a guidance counselor at the school district, sta ...

. The mascot is the Red Raider and the colors are maroon & gray. Current enrollment is over 3,000 students.

History

was incorporated as a town in 1826 and Lowell High School opened shortly after in 1831. One of its earliest homes was a small brick building on Middlesex Street owned by the Hamilton Manufacturing Company. Lowell High School was the first and remains the oldest desegregated public high school in the United States; African American Caroline Van Vronker was a student at Lowell High School in 1843, at a time when every other public high school in the United States was segregated. In 1840, the high school moved into a new building located between Kirk Street and Anne Street along the Merrimack Canal. Over the next 100 years, the school campus expanded. The oldest extant building replaced the 1840s building in 1893. In 1922, a large new building was built along Kirk Street and in the 1980s another building was built on the opposite side of the Merrimack Canal with connecting walkways over the canal. There are now three major buildings with one limited to the Freshman Academy. LowellHighClock

Notable alumni

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References

External links

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Lowell High School Collection
University of Massachusetts Lowell, Center for Lowell History {{Authority control Merrimack Valley Conference Schools in Lowell, Massachusetts Public high schools in Massachusetts 1831 establishments in Massachusetts