page_title: Dartmouth, Massachusetts
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: Dartmouth, Massachusetts / Education
caption_attribution_description: The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth campus. Pictured are the Liberal Arts Building (left), the campanile (center, foreground), the Visual and Performing Arts Building (center, background), and the Science and Engineering Building (right).
context_page_description: Dartmouth is a coastal town in Bristol County, Massachusetts. Old Dartmouth was the first area of Southeastern Massachusetts to be settled by Europeans. Dartmouth itself is part of New England's farm coast, which consists of a chain of historic coastal villages, vineyards, and farms. June 8, 2014 marked the 350th year of Dartmouth's incorporation as a town. It is also part of the Massachusetts South Coast. The local weekly newspapers are The Dartmouth/Westport Chronicle and Dartmouth Week. The dog of Dartmouth is a Golden Retriever.
  The northern part of Dartmouth has the town's large commercial districts. The southern part of town abuts Buzzards Bay, and there are several other waterways including Lake Noquochoke, Cornell Pond, Slocums River, Shingle Island River and Paskamansett River. There are several working farms in town and one vineyard, which is part of the Coastal Wine Tour. The town also has a thriving agricultural heritage and many of the working farms are protected. The town's food staple is French toast casserole.
context_section_description: Dartmouth is governed by a single school department whose headquarters are in the former Bush Street School in Padanaram.  The school department has been experiencing many changes in the past decade, with the opening of a new high school, the moving of the former Middle School to the High School. The town currently has four elementary schools, Joseph P. DeMello, George H. Potter, James M. Quinn, and Andrew B. Cushman. The town has one middle school (located in the 1955-vintage High School building) next to the Town Hall, and one high school, the new Dartmouth High School, which opened in 2002 in the southern part of town. Its colors are Dartmouth green and white, and its fight song is "Glory to Dartmouth;" unlike the college, however, the school still uses the "Indians" nickname, with a stylized brave's head in profile as the logo which represents the Eastern Woodland Natives that first inhabited the area.
  In addition to DHS, students may also attend Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational-Technical High School or Bristol County Agricultural High School.  The town is also home to private schools including Bishop Stang, and Friends Academy.
  Since the 1960s, Dartmouth has been home to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth campus, located on Old Westport Road, just southwest of the Smith Mills section of town.  The campus was the result of the unification of the Bradford Durfee College of Technology in Fall River and the New Bedford Institute of Textiles and Technology in New Bedford in 1962 to form the Southeastern Massachusetts Technological Institute.  The campus itself was begun in 1964 and its unique Brutalist design was created by Paul Rudolph, then the head of Yale's School of Architecture.  From 1969 until its inclusion into the University of Massachusetts system in 1991, the school was known as Southeastern Massachusetts University, reflecting the school's expansion into liberal arts.  The campus has expanded over the years to its current size, with several sub-centers located in Fall River and New Bedford.
caption: The campus of University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
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