Oliver Ames High School is a public high school in Easton, Massachusetts. The school currently enrolls approximately 1200 students in grades 9 through 12. Oliver Ames offers Advanced Placement, Honors, college preparatory, business, and standard programs, as well as electives in the visual and performing arts, business and industrial arts, and home economics.
In sports, Oliver Ames' teams have many achievements, including winning the Hockomock Championships, and making the 2011 Super Bowl.
Oliver Ames High School is well known for its girls' soccer and basketball teams, as well as their cross country team. The girls' soccer team earned the school's first Division I banner in 2011, winning the South sectionals.
The Oliver Ames Tiger Marching Band is an award-winning band and represented the state of Massachusetts in the 2012 Memorial Day parade in Washington D.C.
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