Address: Gardner High School, Gardner Building. Bradford, MA 01914. USA

Phone: (978) 466 - 0034 || Fax: (978) 466 - 0098

Mrs. Helen Gardner, due to lack of funds to maintain the building's doors open, had to sell it to Bradford's Town Hall. Since the Municipal Library's old location was almost falling apart, the Gardner Building was used to arbor it... and only then the rest of the building was used to create Gardner High School. Constructions for the first ended two months before the latter began to be built. It was the year 1957. Two years after it started, Gardner High was inaugurated. Various changes had to be performed on the building's inside to fit a school's layout but it was necessary so it was done. The first principal, Mr. Wellington, was the one to inaugurate the High School, on August 12, 1959. Ever since then Gardner High School has existed.

The School's symbol is the Lion and its colors are blue and yellow. The sports teams are the Gardner High Lions.

There are two entries to the high school, the East and the South one, which is the main one. It depends on which end you usually come from and which best suits you to enter from. The South entry is the one that connects to Liberty Avenue and the one used more often, especially by students. The East entry is used more often to receive visitors and for teachers from the East side of Bradford. The North part of the high school is reserved for the sports fields. It's mostly woods – trees, grass, and the such.

Various interconnected buildings compose Gardner Building, most of them four story high, others only three. On the outside, looking at it, no one would guess it was a High School, for it was too beautiful for it, but indeed it is. The students, even the more rebel ones with a kinship for Graffiti, do not harm the building on the outside in any 'visible' way. Apparently such a place instills respect even in the more disrespectful of persons. Good, or else Gardner Building would be long destroyed by now. Besides, it's against school policy and anyone caught exercising 'modern street art' on the school's walls will be suspended.

Gardner High School has two gymnasiums, one of them with a theatre stage built in for more informal meetings, a basketball court and more. The second gymnasium, denominated as Main Gymnasium, is larger and better equipped. The fact was, the first gymnasium should have been transformed into another room upon construction of the second one but opportunity never came up and now Gardner High has two of them. They work just fine, especially when there are more than one gym classes at the same time. Usually freshmen and juniors get the old gymnasium for their classes… they have complained of that before but it is the way things are.

There's a large auditorium where the drama club practices their plays and where the school band, the choir and the theatre actors perform during school's festivities. The auditorium provides seating for about 800 people for concerts, theatre and assemblies. Immediately outside the auditorium is an outdoor amphitheater. The choir and band practice room is two doors from the cafeteria which means sometimes there's practically live music there. No matter the room has been built with thick walls… sometimes the noise still goes through. Principal Campbell has been talking about getting some isolating walls, soundproof. The cafeteria, which opens to the North side's garden and the sports fields, is large enough to serve the needs of Gardner High School's students. The Arts building is just to the left of the cafeteria's outside garden, a few steps and you're there. It's easier to access it through here than walking all the way through the school's corridors to reach it. As said before, it's all interconnected but short cuts always exist.

The Principal's office is on the East side of the building, much like all administration offices and the Teacher's lounge. There's always someone there, for various numbers of reasons. Vice-Principal Keaton's office is located next to the Principal's and that place is the one most feared by the students. Ms. Keaton has a way of making one whiter pitifully under her scrutiny and she won't allow to be beaten down – that is why she holds grudges against everyone who dares defy her. Principal Campbell, on the other hand, is a pretty cool guy, for a near fifty-ish man. He's sympathetic and the complete opposite of his colleague. He will not act out of vengeance – he always thinks everything over very well. Near these offices is the Guidance Counselor's as well. Ms. Parker is always willing to receive students.

There are various labs, classrooms, and others within the walls of Gardner Building. The corridors are painted of light yellow and a soothing blue, the school's colors, mixed with white and an occasional bronze here and there. The doors to every are wooden and painted of a light yellow (and so are the cafeteria's) and those of the labs and non-classroom facilities have been painted of a bluish color. There are double doors to the cafeteria, the gyms, the office section and others; every other door is single. The walls are empty of decorations in some parts whether in others posters and the such adorn them. Usually the walls nearest the administration sections are emptier.

Near the Cafeteria's entrance is the Bulletin Board which holds messages of all kind, posted by teachers and students, regarding school events, job offerings, personal messages, etc. A new and larger board was added last year for the amount of messages was too big for the previous bard. A person just has to write a message and stick it with the pins spread on a box attached to the board, on it's left side. Some people have a tendency to 'borrow' a few pins but little can be done to prevent that.

Cafeteria

The cafeteria is a place where all students go at least once every day, be that during lunchtime or during any break they have where their stomachs growl in protest for the lack of nourishment. During breaks the cafeteria is open to serve the needs of hungry teenagers, serving snacks of all kinds. During lunch things grow and extend themselves to almost preposterous levels. Gardner High Cafeteria is famous for its amount of food offerings. There is only one big line that sometimes extends to the corridors – no matter how large the cafeteria is, the space sometimes is not enough to hold so many people. The food is not bad, the quality varying within the varieties that are offered. Most students lunch there, especially because they have classes right away and there is not nearly enough time to go home for lunch or to go out for lunch. The cafeteria's schedule is the following: Monday to Friday - 9:00am to 7:00pm; Saturday - 10:00am to 5:00pm.

On the outside there are the various sports training fields, such as the Track & Field one, the tennis court, the football field, among others. Students regularly train on the outside fields. Outdoor games are played yearly on the fields, most fields having audience seats. Gardner High has three tennis courts, a football field, a baseball field, an 11 players and one 5 players soccer field, a Field & Track field and the entire surrounding woods are used for the cross-country races. A swimming pool is being considered as one of the next constructions but although the plans have been approved, construction work will not start until springtime. Meanwhile the swimming team trains on the Bradford Sports Center. Indoor sports are practiced either in the main gymnasium or the old one.

By improving attendance and encouraging punctuality, Gardner High School hopes to achieve the following objectives:

1. Improve scholastic performance.
2. Develop an attitude of cooperation and responsibility in the student.
3. Develop habits of student as worker that are beneficial to life skills and future employment.

Report Cards

Incomplete Works

Health Services

• THEFTS:

Regulations regarding student vehicles and parking

Disciplinary action: Detention

Disciplinary action: Suspension

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