Bourne High School is a public high school located in Bourne, Massachusetts

Bourne, Massachusetts

Bourne is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 18,721 at the 2000 census.For geographic and demographic information on specific parts of the town of Bourne, please see the articles on Bourne , Buzzards Bay, Monument Beach, Pocasset, Sagamore, and Sagamore...

. The school serves roughly 900 students in grades 9-12 that reside in the town of Bourne.

History

Bourne High School is located about 1 mile west of the famous Bourne Bridge and "Cape Cod" topiary at the Bourne Bridge rotary that welcomes people crossing the Cape Cod Canal

Cape Cod Canal

The Cape Cod Canal is an artificial waterway traversing the narrow neck of land that joins Cape Cod to mainland Massachusetts.Part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, the canal is roughly 17.4 miles long and connects Cape Cod Bay in the north to Buzzards Bay in the south...

. Bourne High School's mascot is the Canalman and/or Bears and the school colors are Purple and White.

Sports

Bourne is renowned for its stellar boy's hockey teams which have won and participated in multiple state championship games. They play their home games at the state of the art John Gallo Arena, which hosts many of the state's post-season high school hockey games. Also notable is the girls Volleyball team who won the Division 2 state finals in 2000, and 2004 Division 3 title. The football team went undefeated in 1965, 1980, and 2004.

Bourne high school also offers Field Hockey ,Cross Country, Soccer, Basketball, Winter track, Lacrosse, Spring Track, Softball, and Baseball.

The school song was written by the author of "God bless America" and speaks of "Elm trees tall, soft shadows fall" but that was the old school building (before 1964) with the Elm trees.