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B.M.C. Durfee High School is a public high school located in the city of Fall River, Massachusetts, United States. It is a part of Fall River Public Schools and is the city's main public high school, the other being Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School.
The B.M.C. Durfee High School community is dedicated to providing a safe, rigorous learning environment that is equitable, inclusive, and collaborative, empowering students to explore diverse paths and contribute to the global community. All Hilltoppers have Durfee PRIDE!
- How Durfee Was Meant to Look, and How It Ended Up This Way
- 'What Graduating from Durfee Means ... Is Life Preparation'
- Durfee's People and Places
- 'A Microcosm of The Community'
- Laying The Foundation
You wonder what Bradford Matthew Chaloner Durfee might think of the place named after him. B.M.C., Big Man on Campus, was a playboy of Fall River’s Gilded Age, born in 1843 into staggering wealth created by the poor adults and children employed in his family’s textile mills. He grew up in a mansion in Fall River, and at age 17 inherited a whopping ...
I was not expected to attend Durfee. My sister and my cousins all went to Catholic high school, and my parents made me the same offer. I turned them down. Durfee had more opportunities. Catholic school was like a pleasant suburb. Durfee was like a bustling city. Aunts — none of whom ever had been in there, by the way — warned me that Durfee was a h...
A school is not only a building but the people in it. Some I remember clearly, but I can only form impressions of others. I recall freshman English class, Mrs. Kitchen instructing us on “Silas Marner” while the quiet girl who sat in front of me drew elaborate dragons in her notebook — all year, over her shoulder I watched her fill pages of lined pa...
I moved into a new neighborhood in junior year: the journalism department, a combination newsroom and clubhouse, presided over by Michael Vieira, adviser of the Durfee Hilltopand The Phoenix Nest, the school literary magazine. I wanted to be a writer, a low profession to which I still aspire. Vieira was the ringmaster of a circus of kids from acros...
I enter the journalism room in 2021, which some years ago was turned into a different office — the world hasn't been kind to student journalism, either. It's smaller than I remember. Shielded in a quiet corner behind some corkboards, long gone now, I used to write short fiction and read art other students submitted to me — teenage poetry hand-writt...
Jun 4, 2024 · B.M.C. Durfee High School has announced their top 10 seniors for 2024. Emma McDonnell, Valedictorian, is the daughter of Steven and Erin McDonnell of Hood Street. Emma will be attending the University of South Carolina in the fall where she will major in marketing in the prestigious Darla Moore S
The new Durfee High School is a comprehensive high school serving 2,570 students in grades 9-12 in a unique cultural environment, combining rigorous academics with career-based Chapter 74 CTE programs and pathways. The new building design takes exterior design cues from the original historic 1887 B.M.C. Durfee High School building.
Nov 6, 2020 · Fall River public schools Chief Operating Office Ken Pacheco talks about the construction project at the new B.M.C Durfee High School.
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Oct 28, 2002 · Diplomas did not read “B.M.C. Durfee High School” until the commencement of the class of 1888. Throughout the 20th century, education was greatly expanded in Fall River. The technical high school was built in 1913 and merged with Durfee in 1918.
