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Seniors : Submit your senior photos and baby pictures by December 17, 2021. Learn about the guidelines for photos, how to ask the amazing Mr. McElroy to take your portrait at right at school, how to upload senior photos, how to purchase a Yearbook, how to purchase a Parent Ad, and how to join the Yearbook staff right here. Read this information in Spanish, Portuguese, or Haitian Creole.

From the AvenueNewsletter: Stay up-to-date with what's happening and coming up at SHS with this new weekly Somerville High School newsletter.

Coming Soon: Information about tours of Somerville High School for students in Grade 8 in January.

Quick Info

  • Report a Student Absence. Please visit the SHS Communities page and call the your student's Community direct line or email the Community Administrative Assistant to report any student absences. Communities are organized by the first initial of the last name.
  • Log in to X-2 Aspen to find student-specific schedules. (Parents and Guardians are invited to log in for up-to-date information about their student's academic progress.) Check out the universal SHS Daily Schedule.
  • Tech Support: Students having problems with their Chromebook or with technology, please visit the SPS Parent / Guardian Technology Support Website.
  • Breakfast and Lunch Menus. All students receive free breakfast and lunch in 2021-2022. Breakfast service begins at 7:15am.
  • Join a Club! View the Clubs List.
  • Free food resources information can be found here: https://somerville.k12.ma.us/fns.
  • SHS Office Hours:Monday - Friday, 7:15am to 3:15pm. During these hours, you can obtain work permits, request transcripts.
  • Work Permits: Contact Mrs. Favaloro in the main office at bfavaloro@k12.somerville.ma.us or stop by to pick up a Promise of Employment Application.
  • Contact Somerville High School: Main Office 617-629-5250. Marie Connolly or Barbara Favaloro.
  • MBTA Student Bus Passes: Any student who needs an MBTA student bus pass or information about the student pass, please fill out the MBTA Student Pass Form.
  • SFLC School Based Family Liaison: Nayi Padilla
  • SHS Volunteer Coordinator: Meghan Sousa
  • School Nurses: 2021-2022 SHS Nurses are Terri Emens (617-625-6600 x611062), Maria Tully (617-625-6600 x611061). School Nursing
  • CHA Somerville Teen Connection
  • SHS Library Website: https://sites.google.com/view/shs-library/home. Destiny Library Catalog: https://somerville.follettdestiny.com
  • Transcripts: Send an email to request your transcript to Barbara Favaloro.

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Somerville High School Building Project

  • See the new building! Take an online tour of the new Somerville High School building.
  • SHS Building Project Update
  • Learn about the new building's Educational Plan in this informational video.
  • Visit the SHS Building Project website to learn all about this project.
  • Watch construction in real-time through time-lapse photography.
  • Flyover Video of what the new Somerville High School campus will look like

Leadership

PrincipalMatt Buchanan

Photo of Principal Buchanan

The most recent school report card for Somerville High School (2020) available on the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education website.

Donate to the Somerville High School Scholarship Foundation

School Hours: 7:55am to 2:32pm

FREE Breakfast for All Students starts service at 7:15am

Safety Line (to report absences): 617-625-6600, x611018

Somerville High School, Grades 9-12

81 Highland Avenue, Somerville, MA 02143

(617) 625-6600, x611018

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