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Dirigo High School
Dirigo High School
	Entrance of Dirigo High School.
Location
	145 Weld Street; Dixfield, Maine 04224; United States; 44°32′25″N 70°27′09″W / 44.5403°N 70.4526°W
Information
School type	Public
Motto	Scienta Est Lux
School district	RSU 56
Superintendent	Pamela Doyen
School code	200305
Principal	Kaelyne Thompson
Teaching staff	17.20 (FTE)
Grades	9–12
Student to teacher ratio	12.56
Colors	Blue; White
Athletics conference	Mountain Valley Conference
Sports	Football, Soccer, Field Hockey, Cross-Country, Basketball, Cheering, Skiing, Wrestling, Tennis, Track, Baseball, & Softball.
Mascot	Cougar
Team name	Cougars
Yearbook	Dimensions
Website	www.rsu56.org/o/dirigo-hs

Dirigo High School is a high school located in Dixfield, Maine, in the United States as part of Maine Regional School Unit 56. Dirigo High School serves the towns of Dixfield, Canton, Carthage and Peru. It is classified as a secondary class C school. The school is in the Mountain Valley Athletic Conference or MVC.

Dirigo High School was built in 1948, as Dixfield High School. The second floor was added in 1951, the gym was added in 1967 and the science wing was added in 1974. The building was renovated and expanded in 1998.

Girls' basketball

The Dirigo Lady Cougars' basketball team has had over a decade of success. Since 1995, the Lady Cougars had 11 straight Mountain Valley Conference (MVC) titles for a total of 12, 11 straight Western Maine titles for a total of 14, and 6 out of 13 State Championships. Dirigo has been a dominant high school basketball team in the past decade. The Lady Cougars rely on a great defense, and love to trap opposing teams and run a fast-break offense. The Lady Cougars have been gifted with several players to make the 1,000-point club.

1995-MVC Champs, Western Maine Champs, State Runners-up
1996-MVC Champs, Western Maine Champs, State Champs
1997-MVC Champs, Western Maine Champs, State Runners-up
1998-MVC Champs, Western Maine Champs, State Champs
1999-MVC Champs, Western Maine Champs, State Runners-up
2000-MVC Champs, Western Maine Champs, State Champs
2001-MVC Champs, Western Maine Champs, State Runners-u
2002-MVC Champs, Western Maine Champs, State Champs
2003-MVC Champs, Western Maine Champs, State Champs
2004-MVC Champs, Western Maine Champs, State Runners-up
2005-MVC Champs, Western Maine Champs, State Champs
2006-MVC Champs, Western Maine Runners-Up
2005- Western Maine Champs
2000- Western Maine Champs
1985- Western Maine Champs, State Runners-up
1979- MVC Champs
1978- MVC Champs, Western Maine Champs, State Champs
1977- MVC Champs, Western Maine Champs, State Champs
1976- Western Maine Champions

Cheering

Cheering is a winter sport. Dirigo has won an athletic award in 1998 and 2002. In 2007, DHS won regionals, and won a Western Maine Class C championship. In 2010, The cheerleading team won second place at the regional championship, and was named Runner-up.

Soccer

The Dirigo high school soccer team has made it to the Maine state semifinals twice.^{[citation needed]} In the past five years ^[when?] they have also made it to the Western Maine Finals, but they lost to Sacopee Valley 2-1. In 2007, they made it to the semi-final round with a record of 11-2-1 in the regular season and an overall record was 12-3-1.^{[citation needed]} This team was the third team in Dirigo history to make it this far into the playoffs.^{[citation needed]}

Football

The Dirigo Football team won the Class C Maine state championship against Foxcroft Academy in 2009, with a record of 12-0.^[2]

Dirigo Football is currently being coached by Championship coach James Hersom.

Boys' basketball

The Boys' Basketball Team has been to 5 straight consecutive Western Maine Championship Games 2006-2011, winning in the 2009, 2010, 2011 seasons. They won the MVC Conference game in both 2008 and 2009.

The Boys' Basketball team beat Lee Academy 74-67 to win the 2012 State Championship. This was their first State Championship since 1983 and their last until the 2021-2022 season as they defeated dexter 59-56

Boys' Basketball is currently being coached by Cody St. Germaine.

Dirigo won back to back State Championships in 2022 and 2023

Field hockey

Dirigos' field hockey team in the 2009 season made it to states for the first time in five years and had to compete against the number one seed of North Yarmouth Academy. Dirigo took up the sixth seed of the conference and played NYU but lost to them 0-10. Over-all the 2009 field hockey team achieved many of their set winning goals. In 2015, Dirigo's field hockey team won the Mountain Valley Conference game against Oak Hill.

History of Dirigo tennis, boys' & girls'

Girls' Coach-Art Chamberlin 1981–present

Boys' Coach- Bruce Thompson 1977–present

Boys' Tennis MVC Champs 2006
Boys' Tennis MVC Champs 2007
Boys' Tennis MVS Champs 2008
Mountain Valley Champs-1988 through 1990 + 1993 +1998 +2001 + 2003
State Champs Class B 1983-1984

References

1 2 "Dirigo High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved February 14, 2026.
↑ "Dirigo beats Foxcroft Academy in Class C Championship". Bangor Daily News. Retrieved September 13, 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)

External links

Official website

[NCES-1] 1 2 "Dirigo High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved February 14, 2026.

[2] "Dirigo beats Foxcroft Academy in Class C Championship". Bangor Daily News. Retrieved September 13, 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)

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