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2009, 2010, 2014, 2019, and 2020, with the 2014 team capping off the season by winning the New England Championship in the coed division. Other Class A state championships include: ice hockey (in 2007, 2008, and 2010), softball (in 2006, 2016, and 2022), field hockey (in 1990 and 2018), baseball (in 1984), girls' volleyball (in 2010 and 2022), boys' basketball (in 1924), boys' golf (in 1993 and 1994), boys' outdoor track (in 1995), and girls' outdoor track (in 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, and 1998). Biddeford High also won the Class B boys' hockey state championship in 1977.
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The first public high school in Biddeford was established in 1848. The building for the high school was erected on Washington Street close to the city's downtown. After a rise in Biddeford's population in the late 19th-century, a new high school was constructed in 1888 on a lot in close-by Alfred
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In 1971, the boys and girls gymnastics teams won dual state championships. The boys' team repeated as state champions in 1972, while the girls' team would win the state championship again in 1979 and 2003. Biddeford High won the Class A competitive cheerleading state championships in 2002, 2008,
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Biddeford students taking part in the 1971 Southern Maine Regional Science Fair held at Falmouth High School came home with five of the nine first-place awards. Altogether, Biddeford High School students earned 12 of the 22 total awards.
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Biddeford High School football has won 11 Class A state championships since 1950 (in 1965, 1966, 1967, 1971, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1990, 1991, 1993, and 1994). The school has a long-standing football
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dating to 1893 which is referred to as the "Battle of the Bridges" by residents of both communities. This is in reference to the multiple bridges which interconnect the two cities over the
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The high school moved to its new building in 1890. The Alfred Street building suffered a massive fire in 1893 and was promptly rebuilt. A rear annex and gymnasium were added in 1925.
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The high school moved out of the Alfred Street building in the 1960s to its present location farther away from the Downtown core. This coincided with the establishment of the
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Street. The former high school building on Washington Street was then converted to a primary school before being demolished in the 1960s.
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In 1972, Biddeford High students won the statewide first place Novice Trophy in debate at Brunswick High School.
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Alfred Street Building. Site of Biddeford High School between 1890 and the 1960s.
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Biddeford High School. Teachers and Graduates, from 1848 to 1888
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Biddeford
Coordinates
43°29′43″N 70°28′19″W / 43.495265°N 70.4719655°W / 43.495265; -70.4719655
Public
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230315000072
FTE
NEASC
www.biddefordschools.me/o/bhs-apc/
Biddeford, Maine
school district

Biddeford Regional Center of Technology
rivalry
Saco
Thornton Academy
Saco River
Fred Davis Jr.
Brian Dumoulin
Ryan Fecteau
Dennis Gadbois
Alan Casavant




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