Background
Founded as Holy Cross High School in 1988 on the site of the former Our Lady of Perpetual Help Grade school, Archbishop Murphy High School serves students grades 9-12; enrollment has increased from 23 students in 1988 to approximately 600 for fall 2008. The school was renamed in 1999 after the family of Archbishop Thomas J. Murphy, who died in 1997, and donated a large sum of money in his memory to aid in the construction of the school's current campus in South Everett.
AMHS has had five national merit finalists and one national merit scholar, two boys soccer state championship teams, two state back-to-back football championship teams, three Top-6 finishes at the State Mock Trial Meet, and more than a million dollars in scholarships offered to graduating seniors consistently each year from other schools.
Students provide more than 1,000 hours of community service each year and are involved in a activities including publishing a yearbook, newspaper and literary magazine, singing in the choir, performing in a spring musical, and as performers in the instrumental ensemble.
Archbishop Murphy High School consists of young men and women of varying ethnic and religious backgrounds. Average class size is 20; overall student/faculty ratio is 16:1. There are 32 faculty members, 13 of which have advanced degrees.
The school's mascot is the wildcat, who is at every football game.
A third building, Heath Hall, was completed in the fall of 2007, adding to the two other permanent facilities there, the main building and Grace Hall. The portables will be removed in the place of parking as the association's development plan is executed. With time, a new football field and press box will be added as well as another exit to aid in reducing the traffic problems the South Everett area faces.
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