Warwick Veterans High School

Warwick Veterans High School (also known as Warwick Veterans Memorial High School, WVMHS, or Vets) is a 9-12th grade secondary school in Warwick, Rhode Island. The school building is two stories high and features eight wings of classes, mainly divided by subject (A, B, C, D, "E" F, G, and 900 wing). The logo for all Vets "Hurricane" teams is a reverse-rotating hurricane symbol. School colors are blue, gold, and white. The school has an enrollment of over one thousand students, and its principal is Gerald Habershaw.

The school was opened in the 1956 as a response to a booming Warwick population — the previous high schools (now Samuel Gorton Junior High and Aldrich Junior High and also Lockwood Junior High which has been converted to condos) were too small for the large number of incoming students. In the 1970s, an extension (now called 900 wing) was added to the school. Since the 1970s, two additional high schools have been constructed to answer Warwick's population increase.

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