History

The Colonial Revival school building was constructed in 1925. The school was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

Today

Rockport High School is located on 24 Jerdens Lane in Rockport, Massachusetts, it has approximately 350 students. The official mascot is a Viking, and its colors are silver and maroon. Rockport High School has a varsity Ice Hockey, baseball, basketball, soccer and softball teams for both girls and boys.Rockport High's superintendent is Dr. Susan M. King

Notable alumni

• Amy Brundage, Midwestern Communications Director at the White House
  White House
  The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical...
  
  
• Andrew Stanton
  Andrew Stanton
  Andrew Stanton is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and occasional voice actor based at Pixar Animation Studios. His film work includes writing and directing Finding Nemo and WALL-E; both films earned him the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.-Life and career:Stanton was...
  
  , a screenplay actor for Disney's Pixar
  Pixar
  Pixar Animation Studios, pronounced , is an American computer animation film studio based in Emeryville, California. The studio has earned 26 Academy Awards, seven Golden Globes, and three Grammy Awards, among many other awards and acknowledgments. Its films have made over $6.3 billion worldwide...
  
   helped create popular hits such as Toy Story
  Toy Story
  Toy Story is a 1995 American computer-animated film released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is Pixar's first feature film as well as the first ever feature film to be made entirely with CGI. The film was directed by John Lasseter and featuring the voices of Tom Hanks and Tim Allen...
  
  , Toy Story 2
  Toy Story 2
  Toy Story 2 is a 1999 American computer animated film directed by John Lasseter and co-directed by Lee Unkrich and Ash Brannon. It is the sequel to the 1995 film Toy Story, released by Walt Disney Pictures and the third film to be produced by Pixar...
  
  , WALL-E
  WALL-E
  WALL-E, promoted with an interpunct as WALL•E, is a 2008 American computer-animated science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and directed by Andrew Stanton. The story follows a robot named WALL-E, who is designed to clean up a waste-covered Earth far in the future...
  
   and A Bug's Life
  A Bug's Life
  A Bug's Life is a 1998 American computer animated adventure comedy film produced by Pixar and released by Walt Disney Pictures in the United States on November 25, 1998. A Bug's Life was the second Disney·Pixar feature film after Toy Story, and the third American computer-animated film after Toy...
  
   as well as Finding Nemo
  Finding Nemo
  Finding Nemo is a 2003 American comi-drama animated film written by Andrew Stanton, directed by Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich and produced by Pixar. It tells the story of the overly protective clownfish Marlin who, along with a regal tang called Dory , searches for his abducted son Nemo...
  
  . Evidence of Rockport is seen throughout many Pixar movies, for example, Buzz Lightyear
  Buzz Lightyear
  Buzz Lightyear is a character and the main deuteragonist of the Toy Story franchise. Buzz is a space ranger action figure and the co-leader of Andy's Room. He has also appeared in the movie Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins and the television series spin-off Buzz Lightyear of...
  
   from Toy Story is slightly based on Stanton's High School physics teacher William 'Buzzard' Johnson. Even Buzz Lightyear's phrase "To infinity and beyond" was a joke made by one of Stanton's classmates, poking fun at William Johnson's favorite phrase "To infinity".
• Paula Cole
  Paula Cole
  Paula Cole is an American singer/songwriter. Her single "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone" reached the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1997, and the following year she won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist.-Early life:...
  
  , a famous singer and songwriter known for the hit single "Where have all the cowboys gone?"
• Joe Perry graduated with the 1998 class of Rockport High. After graduation, Joe Perry attended a number of academic institutions including the Art Institute of Boston, Lesley University, University of Massachusetts Lowell and the North Shore Community College. Finally settling down at the University of Southern Maine, Joe Perry studied Anthropology with a minor in Art History. While Joe Perry’s studies are varied, Pre-Contact Mesoamerican Jade and 19th Century American Folk Ceramics are areas of expertise. Joe Perry’s personal collection of European and American Orientalist Art includes Jean-Léon Gérôme, Edwin Lord Weeks, Rudolf Ernst, Henry Bacon, Théophile Marie François Lybaert, and others. It is considered the premier of its kind above the 44th parallel. After a successful career in the non-profit field of outdoor education and child management, Joe Perry realigned himself to pursue work as a Cultural Attaché for the public and private ownership of ethnographic art and artifacts. Joe Perry currently lives in Maine with his wife Amy and two dogs. In his spare time, Joe Perry travels for as part of his passion for food and wine. Over the past ten years, Joe Perry has traveled the globe dining and cooking with important wine and food industry professionals and enthusiasts.

External links

• Rockport Schools Website