5/5
This place is absolutely amazing! This regional high school serves the cities of Marlborough, Hudson, Northborough, Southborough, Westborough, Maynard and Berlin. This isn’t just some regional high school it’s a vocational or technical high school. They have 16 different vocational shops, like Painting and Architectural Design, Plumbing, HVAC, Computer Programming and Web Design, Health Tech, Culinary Arts and so much more shops, they also have several academic opportunities as well such as electives and study hall or academic & skill support, there are also LOTS of clubs and varsities/sports teams you can be apart of, and like they say they do more. Send your child here it’s a better chance of getting your kid into tertiary education/college, if not they do lots of other things that can make their students successful other than college. The school is big but not too big, there are two wheelchair accessible ramps or colonnades/bridges that connect the two main buildings, there are two cafeterias a bigger one and a smaller one (senior cafeteria) a medium sized gymnasium with locker rooms and the building is three stories. There is also an auditorium and a smaller auditorium/lecture hall too. The only thing that the school lacks is classroom space since lots of the teachers share the same room. When you first get in the school as a freshman, they obviously do orientation, then the students do a mini-exploratory of all 16 shops, then students pick 6 of the 16 shops to spend week long exploratories. That lasts until of December until they get the selected for one of the 6 shops they picked for exploratory. And remember you can’t ever change your shop it’s permanent for the all the four school years you’re there. The staff are excellent and professional, everyone is assigned a counselor by your last names first letter, which is good. Administration is also very professional and helps keep the school in a good environment. Well done managing. The schools front entrance is well secured, with receptionists and the police officers room right in front of the door. They use smart techniques to keep trespassers out. This is isn’t the Eiffel Tower people. The junior students that help you with exploratories are nice. So overall this school is secure, lots of opportunities, professional staff, and friendly to all people. Great job Assabet! You make me like going to school.