Somerville High School is a public, four-year high school in Somerville, Massachusetts, United States. The school offers a wide selection of classes and vocational programs. Classes offered include music, performing arts, journalism, TV and media production, ceramics, and computer applications. There are vocational programs in health careers, childhood development, electrical work, carpentry, auto repair, advanced manufacturing, graphic communications, drafting, cosmetology, culinary arts, and metal fabrication. Reconstruction Somerville High School underwent extensive rebuilding in the late 2010s and early 2020s. Planning began in 2012, and voters passed a Proposition override in 2016. Construction began in April 2018, displacing students. The original 1895 building was retained, as was the facade of the 1929 War Memorial. A new connected building opened to a small number of high-need students in various grades on March 4, 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Massachusetts. Construction on the auditorium and cosmetology lab was still in progress, and new athletic fields are expected to be complete by spring 2022. A new broadcast studio is shared with the city government, and the 750-person auditorium and a 100-person lecture hall will be available for community events. The new complex is with capacity for 1,590 students. Extracurricular Clubs and societies Somerville High School students participate in a wide range of self-run extracurricular clubs and societies. Competitive clubs include its Trivia Team, Science League, and a FIRST Robotics Competition team: 6201 The Highlanders. The Trivia team has sent students to compete at WGBH's High School Quiz Show. They have competed on the show six times. Their most recent appearance was in the 2018–2019 school year. In the 2015–2016 school year, The Highlanders won Highest Rookie Seed and Rookie Inspiration Award. In the 2016–2017 school year, the Highlanders won Creativity Award, Gracious Professionalism as well as placing for Districts Championship and placing for the FIRST World Championship in St. Louis. In the 2018–2019 school year, The Highlanders won the Team Spirit Award. Student publications Somerville High School publishes an online student newspaper, The Piper, founded in 2011. Students contribute to The Piper through credited Journalism courses, as well as the school's Journalism club. Sports Somerville High School has a sports program, highlighted by the recent success of its Cross Country team, that went 6–0 in the Greater Boston League in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, capturing the GBL championship each season. The girls' indoor track team was successful, going undefeated and also capturing