Reading Memorial High School (RMHS), overseen by the Reading Public School district, is a four-year high school serving the town of

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, United States, as its only public grade 9-12 school. The school had a student body of 1,269 as of 2016 and draws from Reading's Parker and Coolidge Middle Schools. A major building renovation and construction project was completed prior to the 2007-08 academic year. Competing in the Middlesex League, the school's sports teams are called the Rockets. The school's administration includes principal Kevin Tracey and vice principals Jessica Theriault and Kathleen Buckley.

Athletics

In the Spring of the 1995-96 school year, the Reading Memorial Boys Varsity Baseball team won their first State Championship. The Reading Memorial High School Girls Basketball program was the 2012 Division II Massachusetts State Champions. Reading Girls basketball capped an undefeated (25-0) 2012 season by defeating Central Champion Tyngsborough at the DCU Center in Worcester on March 17, 2012. This was the first state championship for Reading Memorial High School in the sport of basketball. The following year the team competed for the Eastern Division II Massachusetts State Championship, but fell in overtime to Medfield, 59-51. On March 16, 2014, the Rockets' boys varsity hockey team won the Division I State Championship over Braintree 4-1 at the TD Garden, their first state championship since winning the Super 8 Championship in 2008. On March 15, 2015, the Reading girls varsity hockey team won the Division I State Championship over Acton-Boxborough Regional High School 3-0 at the TD Garden, their first in the school's history. On November 11, 2016, Reading Memorial's varsity football team advanced to their respective playoff division Super Bowl for the second consecutive year after beating Lincoln Sudbury 21-7 in the Division 1A North Final. However, they lost to King Philip High School 21-18 in the Super Bowl at

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, their second consecutive loss in an MIAA Super Bowl. The Rockets' football team has won two of the five Super Bowls they have participated in since 2003, winning in 2009 and 2012. The football team also won Super Bowls in 1993, 1995, 1996, and 1998. In the fall of 2016 the Reading High School Varsity Girls Swim Team won the Middlesex League Championship and the Division 2 State Championship. The Girls Varsity swim team repeated as League and Division 2 State Champions in 2017 and 2018. On June 23, 2018, the Rockets' boys varsity lacrosse team won the MIAA Division 2 State Championship, defeating

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, 13-9, at

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. This was the first state final appearance and championship in the program's history.

Notable alumni

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(RMHS '10), rapper *

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(RMHS '01), New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. Film Writer/Producer. Creator/Producer "Last Kid's on Earth" Netflix series and Video Game. *

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, folk musician * Denise A. Spellberg (RMHS '75), associate professor of history,

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, author of ''Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past: The Legacy of 'A'isha Bint Abi Bakr'' (1994) and ''Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an: Islam and the Founders'' (2013) *

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(RMHS '75), ''

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'' arts writer, author of ''Nixon at the Movies: A Book about Belief'' (2004), winner

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, 2008 *

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(RMHS '70), best known as guitarist for Aerosmith * John Doherty (RMHS '69) first baseman-designated hitter, California Angels *

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(RMHS '63), singer-songwriter, best known as guitarist for 1970s rock and roll group

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References

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