Bristol County Agricultural High School

Last week the Junior Nursery Management class went to Evergreen Tree & Landscape. The company's owner Larry Hindle, who is on the Landscape Advisory Board, gave students a tour of his operation. Larry talked with students about running a retail nursery, planting/digging his own B&B trees, running a Christmas tree farm, growing his own annuals/perennials and other aspects of his business. #BAPride #CultivatingExcellence #LocalBusiness

This week the cafeteria is highlighting Aggie beef products. Make sure to stop by the farm store at Spring Expo to pick up fresh beef!🥩 #FarmtoSchool

Beautiful day for #ArborDay2026

Bristol Aggie will soon be having their first ever chick sale! The students of the livestock program are currently in the process of incubating eggs from our flock in their classrooms and want to give our community the opportunity to purchase chicks once they hatch! Chicks would be picked up on May 2nd between 10am and 1pm at our Spring Expo event. If you are interested in purchasing chicks, please fill out the form below to be placed on a waitlist: https://forms.gle/7UGwm4QzMxFwch3H9

Lambing season is finally here! Juniors in Livestock and Dairy Management were busy caring for newborn lambs and pregnancy-checking other ewes due soon. 🐑🌱 #BAPride #CultivatingExcellence

And that's a wrap on spirit week! #BAPride #CultivatingExcellence

We are excited to Welcome the Class of 2030! Welcome to the BA family! #CultivatingExcellence #BAPride

We are excited to Welcome the Class of 2030! Welcome to the BA family! #CultivatingExcellence #BAPride

We are excited to Welcome the Class of 2030! Welcome to the BA family! #CultivatingExcellence #BAPride

Seniors in Floriculture are busy preparing and growing plants for Spring Expo! Make sure to stop by the BA flower shop on May 2nd between 10am and 1pm!🪴🌸 #CultivatingExcellence #BAPride #StudentGrown #Flowershop #SpringExpo

Finally after three terms here at Aggie, the freshman class got placed into their majors! This is a momentous event for our students, for the next three years they will learn all about their selected major, work alongside peers who become lifelong friends, and network with many specialists in their field! Our freshmen worked hard to get into their top majors and it shows in the statistics. 84.28% of students made it into their first choice, 7.55% of students made it into their second choice, and 5.66% of students made it into their third choice. That's an overall average of 97.48% of students who got into their top 3 major choices! We are beyond proud of each and every student, they are laying down a legacy here at Aggie without even realizing it. Congratulations to the Class of 2029, we are privileged to teach the future of agriculture right in Bristol County Massachusetts! #BAPride #CultivatingExcellence #Agriculture

Seniors in Veterinary Science and Laboratory Animal Technology are assisting in appointments. They are using their skills in restraining, nail trimming, obtaining vitals, and running diagnostic tests. #CultivatingExcellence #BAPride

Here is this week's rendition of the Farm to School Newsletter! Learn about how our Livestock program connects to our cafeteria with student raised chicken! 🐓🍜 #BAPride #FarmtoSchool

Spirit week day two! Today's theme for spirit week was "style swap". Below you can see landscape teacher Mr. Hall and arboriculture teacher Mr. Cook dressed up as one another, science teacher Ms. Hopkins dressed as a student, Ms Carley and student Skyla O'Conner dressed as each other, Mr Poloskey and Ms Welshman, Ms Mills and Ms Comera who completely swapped styles, livestock teacher Ms Bosworth dressed as a floriculture teacher, and vet science teacher Ms Eusebio and her student Katie Power dressed as each other! We can't wait to see everyone's outfits for camo vs. tie die tomorrow! #BAPride #CultivatingExcellence #SpiritWeek

Happy Assistant Principal Week Ms. Sylvia, thank you for always going above and beyond to make our school community as amazing as it is. We appreciate your efforts more than you know.❤️💛

Our Juniors in Equine are spending one of their last days of their Companion Animal Science term swap with our doggie daycare! They spent their time bathing, grooming and playing with the dogs, what a fun way to end their term swap! #BAPride #CultivatingExcellence #CompanionAnimals #Dogs

Seniors in Arboriculture are taking their tree id test. Each year they learn about 40 tree species and have a final their senior year of 120 trees. #BAPride #CultivatingExcellence

FFA State Convention recap!🌟💙 Thank you so much to everyone who made the 96th Massachusetts FFA State Convention such a successful week. Students attended leadership workshops, competed, and had lots of fun. We are very excited to send 19 competing students so far to FFA Nationals this October! Highlights include: 🏅Bay State Degree recipients: Lindel Tucker, Phoenix Olivier, Sophie Salisbury, Hannah Bradley, Liam Holloway 🏅Honorary Bay State Degree: Superintendent Derek Costa 🥇Extemporaneous Public Speaking: William O'Keefe 🥇Individual Demos: Liam Holloway and Shyla Gomes 🥇Parliamentary Procedure: Molly Quinn, Liam Holloway, Hailie Campos, Olivia Santos, James Goodrich, Sydney Leavitt Senior Hannah Bradley was also named to the Massachusetts FFA State Officer Team as Secretary! Way to go, Hannah!🌽 None of this success would be possible without the dedication of our students, FFA advisors, Massachusetts FFA, and Bristol Aggie faculty. Congratulations, we are so proud of you all! @Bristol_Chapter_FFA #BAPride #CultivatingExcellence #MassachusettsFFA #NationalFFA #Leadership

Our beekeeping club had a visit with Paul Tessier from MDAR to get a hive ready to transfer to the UMass Amherst apiary. They also had the opportunity to use new technology to check the research hive which is weighed every 15 minutes to collect data of the colony! #BAPride #CultivatingExcellence #Bees 🐝

Students in our Environmental Conservation Department teamed up with the Somerset Sportsmans Club and the American Chestnut Foundation to support the restoration of the American Chestnut (Castanea dentata). Once a cornerstone of Northeastern forests, this species is now considered functionally extinct, but organizations like the American Chestnut Foundation are working hard to change that. As part of this project, students are growing a variety of genetic strains to better understand disease susceptibility, monitoring their growth, and planting the trees at the Somerset Sportsmans Club at the end of the school year. #BAPride #CultivatingExcellence #AmericanChestnuts