Mansfield High School employs 299 teachers with 83 teaching within the eight core academic departments. This leads to an overall student to teacher ratio of 13.23 to 1, which is in line with the 13 to 1 statewide student to teacher ratio.
Graduation requirements
For the current graduating class, the Class of 2020, students are required to complete and pass courses totaling 124 credits. Twenty-five of those must be passed during the students’ senior year. In addition to credit requirements, students must also pass the state-required MCAS exam. There are also departmental requirements for graduation, listed below.
Courses
Mansfield High School offers a wide variety of courses, in addition to the “core” classes. MHS has a set of Advanced Placement courses that allow students to begin their college education while still receiving high school credit. Below is a list of the Advanced Placement, and most notable courses.
Levels
Advanced Placement
Mansfield High School offers Advanced Placement courses in Music Theory, English Language and Composition, English Literature and Composition, Calculus AB, Computer Science Principles, Statistics, Biology, Chemistry, Physics C, American History, European History, Spanish Language and Composition, French Language and Composition, and Art History. However each student can take at most seven Advanced Placement courses during their stay at MHS.
Grading
Students at Mansfield High School are graded on a 0-100 scale, where an A is 90-100, a B is 80-89, a C is 70-79, a D is 65-69, and anything below a 65 is considered failing. Students are awarded credit for each successful passing of a course, however if a student is absent from the course too many times, credits may be deducted.
Class rank
Class rank is determined by calculating a student’s course-weighed grade point average over an extended 4.0 scale. Rank is calculated once a year, with the rank calculated after a students sixth semester being reported to colleges. Valedictorian and Salutatorian are determined by calculating class rank after the completion of a seventh semester. Rank is calculated by first converting a final grade to the 4.0 scale, then weighting it depending on what level each course taken is at. That average is then multiplied by the number of credits a student earned and then divided by the total number of possible credits for the course. This result is the student's weighted GPA. This process is repeated for each class and then the sum of all class GPAs are averaged to result in an overall GPA. It is possible to get over a 4.0 GPA once weighting of the student's final grade has occurred.
Performing arts
Below are the three areas in which Mansfield High School specializes for students to enroll in the Performing Arts.
Athletics
Below is a list of the athletic programs offered at Mansfield, and the seasons when they are held. Mansfield High School offers 25 different varsity level sports. All sports have junior varsity and varsity levels and the heavily participated sports have a freshman level as well. Mansfield sports teams are known as the Hornets and the school colors are Green, White and Black. In recent years, the athletic complexes around Mansfield have been revamped. Mansfield had an artificial turf football field installed behind the high school along with a rubber track in 2001 and dubbed Alumni Field. A new baseball complex was constructed in 2005, located across the street, in front of the Jordan Jackson Elementary school. Mansfield competes in the Hockomock League .
Football
The Hornets won the Hockomock League Championship six years in a row from 2003 – 2008, and won it four years in a row from 2010 - 2013. The 2013 Mansfield football season was an especially successful season, as they began the season by defeating national power and three-time defending Maryland state champions, Dunbar High School of Baltimore, MD in a televised game. Mansfield defeated Dunbar in a last second 29-26 upset win. The Hornets then ran the table throughout the season, eventually finishing the season undefeated at 13-0, winning their 7th state championship in the process, and finished the season as the #1 ranked team in Massachusetts and the New England region. Football accomplishments
State champions - 1992, 1994, 1996, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2013, 2019
The indoor track team has won 3 straight Indoor Track State Championships, along with 11 straight Hockomock League Championships in the same sport.
Basketball
In the 2012 - 2013 season, the boys' basketball team finished with an undefeated regular season and made it all the way to the Division 1 State Championship, and lost. They finished the season being the #1 ranked boys' basketball team in Massachusetts.
