Archbishop Williams High School is a co-educational Catholic school in Braintree, Massachusetts, USA. It was founded in 1949 by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth. "Archies" as it is known, became a private school in the 2004–05 school year, separating itself from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, although it remains a school of Catholic denomination.
Archbishop Williams' school seal, originally that of the founding order of nuns, is the pelican, which was an early Christian symbol of Jesus. The school's motto is Caritas Christi Urget Nos, or "The Love of Christ Drives Us On." Blue and gold are the school's colors.
The school is named after John Joseph Williams, the first Archbishop of Boston. AWHS was dedicated on September 12, 1949 by Cardinal Richard Cushing.
Tuition is $10,300 for the 2010–2011 school year. The school principal is Mary Lou Sadowski.
In September 2004, union officials reported as many as a quarter of teachers at the regional Catholic high schools in the Boston archdiocese, including Archbishop Williams, left their jobs after the schools stopped negotiating with the union. In June 2004 the union had sued the archdiocese, claiming that the new school bodies were bound as its successors to continue to recognize the union's collective bargaining rights. The archdiocese opposed its teachers' association in this claim.
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