tenth place. Bangor has a large number of juniors and seniors in its chapter of the National Honor Society. Miscellaneous Peakes Auditorium is used by many groups around the city and state. Most notably, the Bangor Symphony Orchestra held concerts there while the University of Maine's Collins Center for the Arts was being renovated. Graduation exercises for Beal College also use the Peakes Auditorium. The school year runs from September to June. School days are 8:00 to 2:00. The day is split up into sixteen 'mods', or 20-minute blocks of time. There are five minutes between each class, and each class takes up 2 mods. Lab sciences take up 3 mods 2, 3, or 5 days a week, depending on the difficulty of the class. The school utilizes locally developed assessments to document student proficiency in Maine learning standards. Although Bangor takes students from communities lacking a high school, about 2/3 of the students come from Bangor's two public middle schools: the William S. Cohen School and the James F. Doughty School, each of which enrolls approximately 500 students. Notable alumni John F. Appleton - Civil War general Taber D. Bailey - lawyer and politician John Baldacci - politician William Cohen - politician and U.S. Secretary of Defense Galen Cole - military veteran and philanthropist Marcus Davis - mixed martial arts fighter William Hammatt Davis - former chairman of the National War Labor Board Prescott Freese Dennett - one of 30 people indicted for sedition for sympathizing with the Axis powers Henry Payson Dowst - novelist and short story writer Fannie Hardy Eckstorm - writer, ornithologist and folklorist Ashley Emerson - soprano Keith Farnham - politician who pleaded guilty to distributing child pornography John F. Godfrey - sailor, soldier, and officer Adam Goode - politician Bettina Gorton - academic and former Spouse of the Prime Minister of Australia Carl Frederick Holden - vice admiral Blanche Willis Howard - novelist Chris Johnson - politician Matt Kinney - baseball player Wayne Maunder - actor David Richard Porter - former major figure in the YMCA Gerald Talbot - politician Artemus E. Weatherbee - Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Cary Weston - politician Charles Huntington Whitman - academic Donald Norton Yates - Air Force general Elmer P. Yates - Army general H. Edwin Young - former chancellor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison References External links Public high schools in Maine Schools in Penobscot County,