Coginchaug Regional High School (abbreviated as C.R.H.S.) is a

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located in

Durham, Connecticut Durham is a New England town, town in Middlesex County, Connecticut, Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States. Durham is a former farming village on the Coginchaug River in central Connecticut. The population was 7,152 at the 2020 United Stat ...

and is named after the

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. It is part of Regional School District #13, which encompasses the communities of Durham, Middlefield and

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, Connecticut. Coginchaug is attended by students in grades 9 through 12. Middlesex County Connecticut Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Durham Highlighted

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Principal

The principal of Coginchaug Regional High School is Debra Stone as of the 2022–2023 school year.

Academics

A variety of academic programs and coursework are offered at Coginchaug, including special education, standard high school classes at three levels (Honors, College Prep A, and College Prep B), and

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classes.

Extracurricular

Newspaper

The student newspaper is The Devil's Advocate, which is published on a biweekly basis as part of ''The Town Times'', the local newspaper of Durham and Middlefield.

Sports

Coginchaug offers a wide range of sports and extracurricular activities, including; cross country, indoor and outdoor track, basketball, soccer, football (co-op with East Hampton and Hale-Ray), volleyball, golf, tennis, baseball, softball, ice hockey (boys co-op with Haddam-Killingworth Regional and Lyman Hall in Wallingford; plays home games at Northford Ice Pavilion), swimming and diving (co-op with Lyman Hall, meets held at Sheehan HS in Wallingford), and also offers a Unified Sports program The school's mascot is the Blue Devil, and the school's colors are blue and white. The football team was co-winner of the Pequot-Sassacus League in the 2009-2010 season, along with Hyde and Cromwell. The girls' basketball team won the Class S championship in the 2011-2012 season and the 2017-2018 season. The softball team won the Class S championship in 1983, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2012 and most recently in 2021.CRHS Athletics
. Retrieved on 2008-10-23. The boys' outdoor track team has a very decorated record, which includes Shoreline Championships in 1995-2002, 2007, 2010, 2017, and 2018. They have consistently placed second or third in the years that they have not won the championship.

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