Mill River Union High School, commonly known as Mill River or MRU is a public junior-senior high school in Clarendon, Vermont. and is part of the Mill River Unified Union School District. MRUUSD includes the towns of Clarendon, Wallingford, Shrewsbury and Tinmouth. Other towns whose students attend Mill River include Ira, Ludlow, Middletown Springs and Danby. The current principal is Kaelyne Thompson. The current superintendent of the district is Brian Hill. Recognition The 2017 U.S. News & World Report ranked Mill River Union High School as one of the top 10 schools in Vermont. The ranking gave MRU a silver medal– which was awarded to only 10.3% of high schools nationally. Athletics Mill River competes in Division III in Vermont in all sports. It competes in the local Marble Valley League (MVL). The girls' soccer team was ranked #1 in the state in 2004 and 2005. The football team won the state championship in 1994 The girls' basketball team won the state championship in 2015. The Boys Basketball team won the state championship in 1982 and 1989. In their first year in Division III for soccer, the 7th seeded Minutemen upset 2 schools on their way to the first state championship appearance for soccer in 13 years. They lost 4-3 to Green Mountain in 2019. In 2014, the baseball team won the state championship. Drama Mill River's theater company is Stage 40, led by director Peter Bruno and a student board of directors. Each season it performs three shows, and helps the middle school (Stage 20) run a spring play. The 2007-2008 season included The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert & Sullivan. The fall show was an adaptation of Roald Dahl's The Twits, a knock off of the famous, James Besaw's The Tits. The 2009-2010 season included Splendor in the Grass, by William Inge, based on the film of the same name, directed by Elia Kazan; Discourse on Dissent, a series of shorts based on war themes; and The Witches. The Middle school did a performance of Alice in Wonderland. Other productions have included, Sam Shepard's Geography of a Horse Dreamer, Slavomir Mrozek's, Fox Hunt, and Ted Hughes', The Pig Organ. Music Mill River Union High School's Music program is run by Kristin Cimonetti, Peter Roach, and Andrew Loose. Kristin conducts a senior choir of over seventy students and a junior choir of over forty students. Kristin also conducts three