Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School
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| Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School | |
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| Location | |
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251 Stonehaven Road , , 02720 United States | |
| Coordinates | 41°41′54″N 71°7′22″W / 41.69833°N 71.12278°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public High School Open enrollment[1] |
| Established | 1912 |
| School district | Greater Fall River Regional Vocational Technical District |
| Superintendent | Brian Bentley[2] |
| Principal | Leslie Weckesser[2] |
| Teaching staff | 143.10 (FTE)[3] |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 1,443 (2023-2024)[3] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 10.08[3] |
| Colors | Black & Orange |
| Athletics conference | MIAA Mayflower League |
| Mascot | Bengal |
| Rivals | Greater New Bedford, Bishop Connolly, Bristol-Plymouth |
| Budget | $27,757,430 total $20,084 per pupil (2016)[4] |
| Communities served | Fall River, Swansea, Westport, Somerset |
| Website | dimanregional |
Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School is a public vocational high school located in Fall River, Massachusetts. The high school serves a regional school district comprising the city of Fall River, and the surrounding towns of Somerset, Swansea and Westport. The school has an enrollment of over 1,400 students and offers vocational-technical education in 18 different programs.[5]
The school also includes the Diman Regional School of Practical Nursing, offering post-graduate education in the field of practical nursing.[6]
Diman received national attention in January 2018, when then-United States Representative Joe Kennedy III gave the Democratic Party's response to Donald Trump’s 2018 State of the Union Address from the school’s automotive shop.[7] Massachusetts’s 4th congressional district, which Kennedy represented at the time, includes the school.
The school was founded in Fall River as Diman Vocational School in 1912 by Reverend John Diman, an Episcopal minister who had previously started Diman School for Boys (later renamed St. George's School) in Middletown, Rhode Island.[8] Rev. Diman later converted to Catholicism, became a Benedictine monk, and helped found Portsmouth Abbey School in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
The Diman Regional Charter was established in 1963 to expand the area of the school's enrollment to include the surrounding towns of Somerset, Swansea and Westport, Massachusetts. The current campus on Stonehaven Road in Fall River opened in 1968.
Vocational programs
Diman currently offers 18 vocational shop programs to students, which are as follows:[5][9]
- Advanced Manufacturing (formerly Machine Tool Technology)
- Automotive Collision, Repair, and Refinishing
- Automotive Technology
- Building and Property Maintenance
- Business Technology
- Carpentry-Cabinetmaking
- Culinary Arts
- Dental Assisting
- Drafting
- Electricity
- Electronics
- Graphic Communications
- Health Assisting
- HVAC/R (Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration)
- Medical Assisting
- Metal Fabrication & Joining Technologies
- Plumbing
- Programming and Web Development
