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. and is part of the Mill River Unified Union School District. MRUUSD includes the towns of Clarendon, Wallingford, Shrewsbury and Tinmouth. Other towns whose students attend Mill River include

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, Middletown Springs and Danby. The current principal is Kaelyne Thompson. The current superintendent of the district is Brian Hill.

Recognition

The 2017 '' U.S. News & World Report'' ranked Mill River Union High School as one of the top 10 schools in Vermont. The ranking gave MRU a silver medal– which was awarded to only 10.3% of high schools nationally.

Athletics

Mill River competes in Division III in Vermont in all sports. It competes in the local Marble Valley League (MVL). * The girls' soccer team was ranked #1 in the state in 2004 and 2005. * The football team won the state championship in 1994 * The girls' basketball team won the state championship in 2015. * The Boys Basketball team won the state championship in 1982 and 1989. *In their first year in Division III for soccer, the 7th seeded Minutemen upset 2 schools on their way to the first state championship appearance for soccer in 13 years. They lost 4-3 to Green Mountain in 2019. *In 2014, the baseball team won the state championship.

Drama

Mill River's theater company is Stage 40, led by director Peter Bruno and a student board of directors. Each season it performs three shows, and helps the middle school (Stage 20) run a spring play. The 2007-2008 season included

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. The fall show was an adaptation of Roald Dahl's

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, a knock off of the famous, James Besaw's The Tits. The 2009-2010 season included Splendor in the Grass, by William Inge, based on the film of the same name, directed by Elia Kazan; Discourse on Dissent, a series of shorts based on war themes; and The Witches. The Middle school did a performance of Alice in Wonderland. Other productions have included, Sam Shepard's Geography of a Horse Dreamer, Slavomir Mrozek's, Fox Hunt, and Ted Hughes', The Pig Organ.

Music

Mill River Union High School's Music program is run by Kristin Cimonetti, Peter Roach, and Andrew Loose. Kristin conducts a senior choir of over seventy students. Kristin also conducts three honors ensembles; the Chamber singers (bass and treble voices), the Clef Hangers (bass voices), and the Tempo Tantrums (treble voices). Andrew conducts a junior choir of over forty students, three honors ensembles; Jazz Combo, Cantiamo (bass unchanged), and Vivace (treble unchanged), and a collegiate music theory class. Peter teaches senior and junior band, as well as two honors ensembles; Jazz Band and Jazz Lab. Many students who participate in the music program are accepted into the New England festival, All-State festival and District five music festivals annually.

Visual Arts

Mill River's Visual Art department is led by Karen Swyler & Jonathan Taylor and includes comprehensive programs in Drawing, Pottery, Photography (darkroom and digital), and AP (Advanced Placement) Studio Art. Art facilities consist of two classrooms with separate pottery, painting/photo, and darkroom studios. Students have 1:1 access to college-level facilities from pottery studio & wheels, state-of-the-art MacBook Pro laptops, Adobe Creative Cloud, loaner DSLRs, 35mm & medium format film cameras, painting studio and photo darkroom. All art courses offer personalized, differentiated pathways supporting advanced work to level 3 & 4 classes, often culminating in

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portfolios in drawing, painting, photography, new media, and 3D sculpture. Student work is exhibited every year at Fall, Winter, & Spring school shows as well as at the

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Arts Engagement Festival and the Chaffee Art Center's Annual Student Art Exhibit. Trips to National Portfolio Day, Middlebury College Art Museum, Vermont Folklife Center,

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, and New York City are coordinated with the Stafford Technical Center. Jonathan Taylor's students have scored well on the AP Studio portfolio and been admitted to top college programs and art schools across the country.

Activities

* Upward Bound (Castleton State College)

References

External links

Mill River Union High School

Mill River Unified Union School District website

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