Civil Municipal View Feb2023

91 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 2 hands-on learning for over 600 students from 28 counties and 40 out-of-county towns. The school is situated on 365 acres in Walpole and offers specialty training in the areas of environmental science, plant science, animal science, and agricultural mechanics. “The school was actually established by an act of legislature in 1915, opening as a branch of the Weymouth High School a year later,” shares Superintendent Director John Martin.“Buildings were constructed on our current campus starting in 1917. Today, our student body runs roughly 65- 34 girls to boys, and a good percentage of our kids go on to two- and four-year universities— upwards of 70% of our graduates. The rest go directly into the workforce, or into the military.” NORFOLK COUNTY , MASSACHUSETTS