Van Buren High School is a public

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Van Buren, Maine Van Buren is a town on the Saint John River in Aroostook County, Maine, United States; located across from Saint-Leonard, New Brunswick, Canada. The population was 2,038 at the 2020 census. It is named after U.S. President Martin Van Buren. G ...

, United States. The school's sports teams are known as the Crusaders. During the 2014–15 school year, 60% of the school's 80 students were considered economically disadvantaged. It is also known as M.S.A.D. 24 and is located on the site of the old Saint Mary's College, where the first report of the Armistice ending World War 1 was received in the U.S. on Father Thomas's wireless telegraph machine.

Louis Sockalexis Louis Francis Sockalexis (October 24, 1871 – December 24, 1913), nicknamed the Deerfoot of the Diamond, was an Americans, American baseball player. Sockalexis played professional baseball in the National League for three seasons, spending h ...

played his freshman year of college baseball at St. Mary's before transferring to Holy Cross. In 2012 the Van Buren M.S.A.D 24 Boys' Baseball team added 3 players from the Girls' Softball Team, senior Naomi Maldonado, sophomore Kayla Durette and freshman Amanda Sytulek, allowing the school to field a team in a year where many of the athletes chose the popular Van Buren H.S. tennis program.

Alumni

* Anthony “A.J.” Edgecomb (Class of 2011), at the time the youngest member of the 148th district of the

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'' * Roger Parent, former mayor of South Bend, Indiana.

References

Public high schools in Maine Schools in Aroostook County, Maine Van Buren, Maine {{Maine-school-stub