If you attend BMC Durfee Highschool you are gaining an excellent highschool experience. If you are an above-average student there are many ways that you can get ahead, such as taking advanced classes or by participating in duel enrollment classes. If you are not above-average the teachers at Durfee push
... Read more you so that you reach your full potential and possibly become an above-average student. There is no better school in Massachusetts. Read less
Posted by a student on 12/21/08
The best school in the state of massachusetts. Being a student here, i get an amazing education and my teachers push my class mates and myself to the best of our abilities.
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Posted by a student on 06/18/08
The new administration, installed last year, is really turning the school around. Students are on task at all times. There is no one in the halls. Students get to class on time. The leadership team is in the cafeteria at all lunches and push around garbage cans to collect refuse, and at the same
... Read more time meeting and greeting students. Very clever. Teachers are expected to teach at the highest levels, and those who choose not to are encouraged to retire or leave. Students are transferring IN to the school. The dropout rate is going down due to new teachers, administrators and new, effective programs. There is a new spirit here. Read less
Posted by a parent on 09/26/07
I have no major complaints about Durfee, I just wish they'd stop changing the way things work every single year. As soon as you get used to one way of going about your day, it changes to something completely different.
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Posted by a student on 09/18/07
Durfee is an awesome school! The teachers are great and there are tons of fun activities for students to get involved with. It's a great place to learn and...have fun!
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Posted by a student on 08/19/07
i think this is a great school.It gives Young adults the lesson on life with all the people that are in that school. Also all the after schol activities are great if parent work till around 3:30. Helps boost young adult social life.
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Posted by a parent on 07/17/07
As an honor and up-coming AP student,I have found that the students who complain about the quality of education they are recieving at Durfee are the students who have no business complaining in the first place! Those who complain about the lack of appropriate resources and 'zoo-like' classrooms are usually
... Read more the students found in the lowest level classes offered. They complain that their education is not up to par...but that is their own doing. Durfee is a school like any other. There are good students and bad students, good aspects and bad aspects. The under-performing half of the school shouldn't be complaining! At Durfee, if you work hard you succeed, if not...well, that is your own doing. Read less
Posted by a student on 12/27/06
Hi I am a Junior here at Durfee High School. I agree with my fellow peers on some perspectives. Our school is made to seem worse than it is. We have many great students and many who are not willing to learn. For the students who do want to learn, our school does not provide us with enough text books
... Read more or teachers. I find it ironic the State blames the teachers for our 'low performance', when the state should ask themselves how they expect our teachers to inspire us and teach us when we dont have the resources. We Have some good after school activities but I think we should have more. I'm not even going to comment on our principals, but i must say our latest prospect is a very nice man. Our school also has a lot of drug activity that is not being handled. -Kendra Neto Read less
Posted by a student on 10/28/04
Hi, my name is Jose and im currently a junior and I just want to voice what I, a student, feel about the school in which everyone is so quick to put down. I've read some of the messages that were posted about our school and I find them just a little funny. The first message was about a young girl who
... Read more tried out for sports and wasn't chosen. Tell me, how is it that your going to rate and entire high school on the fact that your daughter might not have been good at volleyball? Let's be serious. The second response I can agree with it a little, but not every class is a total zoo. I take all honors courses and not one of my classes are misorderly or 'zoo' like. Read less
Posted by a student on 09/13/04
I would like to say that my daughter is now a senior at Durfee and she cant wait to get out of there. She says its very clicky and she got discouraged when she was a freshman because they only picked two freshman for the volly ball team, she didnt have a chance, then they told her to try out her sophmore
... Read more year and still nothing, she realized that ya really need to know someone to get into sports there... and I as a parent think its discusting that the school passes students to the next grade even if they did not pass the entire year in all classes. its ridiculous. if they fail one class they need to stay back ... like the old days. in fall river, Read less
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general intellectual ability or talent - high intelligence test score (usually two standard deviations above the mean), and high levels of vocabulary, memory, abstract work knowledge and abstract reasoning;
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creative and productive thinking, the ability to produce new ideas;
leadership ability, the ability to direct individuals or groups to a common decision or action;
visual and performing arts, special talents in visual art, music, dance, drama, or other related studies;
psychomotor ability, such as practical, spatial, mechanical, and physical skills.
Vocation/Technical Curriculum
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Special Education Classes
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Adult Education Classes
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English as Second Language
English language classes for students whose first language is not English.
Fall River schools — B M C Durfee High School is located at 360 Elsbree St, Fall River MA 02720. 360 Elsbree St is in the 02720 ZIP code in Fall River, MA The school district for B M C Durfee High School is the Fall River School District. B M C Durfee High School is a Public school that serves grade levels 9 - 12.
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