Yarmouth High School is a four-year public high school in Yarmouth, Maine, a part of the Yarmouth Schools district.Yarmouth High School was recently renovated to accommodate a 500-seat auditorium, a student union/cafeteria, and a new office area that contains offices for the guidance counselors, the social worker, the substance abuse counselor, the athletic director, the nurse, and the administrative officers.There were about 520 students enrolled for 2008–2009. Eighty-five percent of seniors go on to college and university studies. There were 52 teachers including all counselors, social workers, special educators, and technology and library specialists.Yarmouth High is widely recognized as one of the strongest schools in the state academically and athletically.Awards and recognitionDuring the 1986–87 school year, Yarmouth Junior-Senior High School was recognized with the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education, the highest award an American school can receive. Since renamed, Yarmouth High School was recognized again as a Blue Ribbon School during the 2005–06 school year.Each year Newsweek ranks the top 5% of schools in the country. There are over 27,000 high schools throughout the country and Newsweek ranks the top 1,300 by what is called the AP Challenge Index. Yarmouth High School has consistently ranked in the top 400, ranked 303 in 2006, 345 in 2007, 275 in 2008, 176 in 2009, and 239 in 2010. (Yarmouth High School was not ranked in 2011, possibly due to Newsweek's decision to change their ranking methodology to include six components: graduation rate (25%), college matriculation rate (25%), AP tests taken per graduate (25%), average SAT/ACT scores (10%), average AP/IB/AICE scores (10%), and AP courses offered (5%).)
