Leavitt Area High School Explained

Leavitt Area High School
Streetaddress:21 Matthews Way
Zipcode:04282
Country:United States
Coordinates:44.2672°N -70.228°W
Principal:Eben Shaw
Teaching Staff:65
Gender:Coed
Grades:9–12
Language:English
Campus Size:Medium
Campus Type:Rural
Hours In Day:07
Conference:KVAC
Song:Sweet Caroline
Mascot:Hornet
Colors: Green and white
Yearbook:Angelus
Newspaper:The Buzz
Enrollment:574 (2020-2021)[1]

Leavitt Area High School is a public secondary school that serves grades 9–12 in Turner, Maine, United States. It is a regional high school and serves the communities of Turner, Leeds, and Greene and is run by Maine School Administrative District 52.

History

The school takes its name from an 1895 gift by James Madison Leavitt, a Turner native who became a wealthy New York City manufacturer of umbrellas and parasols.[2] Leavitt donated $10,000 to the town of Turner to build a preparatory school.[3] The school opened on Jan. 20, 1897, and was dedicated to Leavitt. In 1899 the first class of eight students graduated.[4]

The school later outgrew the initial building, which now houses the Turner Historical Museum and the Turner Public Library. The last class graduated from the Leavitt Institute facility in 1966. In 1967 the school's name was changed to Leavitt High School, and in 1969 when the school district was consolidated, the school's name was changed to Leavitt Area High School, now located nearby the old Leavitt Institute Building.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Maine Department of Education .
  2. http://169.244.183.37/LAHS_Guidance/Trustees%20Page Trustees of Leavitt Institute, Turner, Maine
  3. https://books.google.com/books?id=OfgBVf_jO3AC&dq=leavitt+institute+turner+maine&pg=PA343 A Guide 'Down East,' Federal Writers' Project, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Printed by The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1937
  4. Web site: Leavitt Institute Building, Turner, Maine, turnermaine.com . 2009-09-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090705112019/http://www.turnermaine.com/institute.html . 2009-07-05 . dead .