Education
Somerset is served by its own public school system. It has four elementary schools, from north to south they are the North Elementary School, the Chace Street School, the South Elementary School and the Wilbur Elementary School. Somerset Middle School (formerly known as Somerset Junior High School) is located adjacent to South Elementary along Brayton Avenue, and handles grades 6 through 8. Somerset Berkley Regional High School is located along County Street (Route 138). The school's mascot is the "Blue Raider", and its colors are dark blue and white. The school is known locally for having two former baseball players play professionally, Greg Gagne and Jerry Remy. Students from Berkley, Massachusetts also attend Somerset High School due to a per-student tuition agreement between the two towns. The town is a member of the Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School system in Fall River, and high school students may also attend Bristol County Agricultural High School in Dighton. The town is getting a new high school, as well.
Many students of all grades attend private schools in Fall River, including Bishop Connolly High School. There are no private schools in the town. Currently the town is in the process of building a new regional school with the town of Berkley. The school is to be named Somerset Berkley Regional High School and will be built in Somerset on the same site as the old high school. In paper the first graduation class will be the class of 2012, the projected time of completion for the new building is to be in 2014.
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