Amherst Regional High School (ARHS) is a secondary school in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States, for students in grades 9–12. It is part of the Amherst-Pelham Regional School District, which comprises the towns of Amherst, Pelham, Leverett, and Shutesbury, Massachusetts. Its official colors are maroon and white. ARHS's current principal, beginning in the 2020-21 academic year, is Talib Sadiq.

Extracurricular and non-academic activities

Sports 
The school's sports teams are known as the Hurricanes. The nickname first appears in the Goldbug yearbook of 1942, in the Sports/Baseball section, "Hurricanes humble Hopkins". The nickname is likely in recognition of the 1938 New England Hurricane. "History of the Class", Goldbug 1939, is entitled "The Epic Of A Hurricane"; it begins "We are a hurricane."

The boys' cross-country team has been listed in the top 100 high school teams in America, and has won many Western Massachusetts championships, most recently in 2018. In 2001 they won the State Championship.

ARHS is one of many high schools in Massachusetts with a nationally ranked Ultimate program. The program hosts the annual Amherst Invitational Ultimate Tournament which pits 30 high school teams from across the country in the oldest and one of the largest high school tournaments in the USA.

The 1992–1993 girls' basketball team inspired the book In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle by Madeleine Blais.

The Football team won the 1999 Massachusetts High School Super Bowl by defeating Southbridge, 27–7. It was the first Super Bowl win for Amherst in 25 years.

Amherst High Athletics came to national attention in the fall of 2016, when the entire volleyball team, with the exception of one player, decided to kneel during the playing of the National Anthem at an away game against rival Minnechaug on Oct. 7, 2016.  The sole player who chose to stand was profiled by ESPN.

Survival living 
ARHS is one of the few schools in the nation to offer a Wilderness Survival program.

Notable alumni 
 Annie Baker (class of '99), Pulitzer Prize winning playwright 
 Madeleine George, award winning playwright and young-adult author
 Thomas Bezucha (class of '82), film director and writer of Big Eden and The Family Stone
 David F M Brown (class of '81), President, Massachusetts General Hospital; Trustees Endowed Professor, Harvard Medical School
 John Henry, former MLB player (Washington Senators, Boston Braves)
 Michael Hixon (class of '13), American diver 
 James Ihedigbo (class of '02), Philanthropist and retired NFL safety who played 2007-2016 for the New York Jets, New England Patriots, Baltimore Ravens (including 2012 Super Bowl), Detroit Lions, and Buffalo Bills
 Amory Lovins, sustainability guru and CEO of the Rocky Mountain Institute
 Eric Mabius (class of '89), actor known for his roles as Daniel Meade on Ugly Betty and as Tim Haspel on The L Word
 Michael E. Mann (class of ‘88), climatologist and geophysicist and current director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University
 Makaya McCraven (class of '02), jazz drummer and bandleader
 Julie McNiven (class of '98), actress
 Ellen Moran (class of '84), Chief of Staff to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce
 Ebon Moss-Bachrach (class of '95), actor
 J Mascis (class of '84), of Dinosaur Jr. and other bands
 Perry Moss (basketball) (class of '76), played two seasons in the NBA
 Benjamin Nugent (class of '95), writer
 Gil Penchina (class of '87), CEO of Wikia
 Robbie Russell, (class of '97), played soccer for the MLS teams Real Salt Lake and D.C. United
 Deb Talan (class of '86), an American singer-songwriter for the folk-pop duo The Weepies.
 Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman (both class of '89), founders of govWorks and stars of the documentary film Startup.com
 Jamila Wideman (class of '93), former WNBA player
 David Romer (class of '76), Herman Royer Professor of Political Economy at the University of California, Berkeley.
 Christopher O. Ward (class of '72), Executive Director of PANYNJ, NYC Commissioner of Department of Environmental Protection
 Kevin Ziomek (class of '10), professional baseball player in Detroit Tigers minor league

References 

Public high schools in Massachusetts
High schools in Hampshire County, Massachusetts
Educational buildings in Amherst, Massachusetts
1956 establishments in Massachusetts
Educational institutions established in 1956