Andover High School (Massachusetts)

Andover High School (formerly Punchard High School) is a high school in the town of Andover, Massachusetts. As of October 2010, Andover High's interim Principal is Dr. Thomas Sharkey; its Assistant Principals are Marilyn Jordan, Christopher Phillips, and Luz Valverde. The school is located at , Andover, Massachusetts.

The school building

The school has a Media Center/Library located in the center of the school and a cafeteria located toward the north-west side of the school. AHS also has a "Field-house" and a "Dunn Gymnasium" (the former is a large room that is used for indoor track, and it is used for other Physical Education classes and for voting as well. It was added on to the school after its initial construction; the latter is a normal, wood-floored, gymnasium that also holds Phys-Ed classes, but it has a separated weight-room/physical exercise room toward the far end).

In addition to the aforementioned, the Collins Center (named after J. Everett Collins, a local choir conductor who worked at AHS for many years) serves as the school's theatre. The Collins Center, built in 1983, is separated from the rest of the school, annexed to one end of the high school opposite the field house. The AHS Band, Choral, Drama, and Orchestra Departments are housed here. The Collins center is home to the marching band, concert band, all-town orchestra, concert choir, chamber choir, show choir, and drama guild. Some of...
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