[8] Students in the 10th grade who met or exceeded expectations on the MCAS ELA, Math, and Science portions numbered 89%, 86%, and 97%, respectively.
[9][better source needed] From 1981 to 1985, the Duxbury High School boys soccer team won 72 consecutive games, which is still the longest winning streak in United States history.
[10] Beginning in the early 60's, Duxbury High School occupied two sites on Saint George Street, where it remained until 2013, when both buildings were razed and replaced with playing fields.
As described in the New York Times, "On the way home from playing a game against a town on Cape Cod, 31 members of the varsity and junior varsity squads, dressed in their uniforms, stopped at a convenience store in Sagamore Beach and helped themselves to candy bars, baseball cards and bottles of soda.
The team was subsequently forced to forfeit the remainder of their games and make restitution to the store owner.
[22] Duxbury Public Schools Superintendent John Antonucci announced that an investigation into the etiology and pervasiveness of anti-Semitic or otherwise offensive language was underway and contracted to Just Training Solutions, LLC by March 24.
Mr. Maimaron submitted his resignation from his teaching position at Duxbury Public Schools to Superintendent Antonucci on June 7, 2021.
[26] Joseph Parker Foley was a graduate of the Duxbury Public Schools who died of an accidental drug overdose at the age of 27 years old in October 2020.
On March 31, 2021, the Estate of Mr. Foley filed a civil lawsuit in Plymouth Superior Court against the Duxbury Public Schools and John Blake, seeking $1MM in damages.
[28] Mr. Foley's subsequent drug use and accidentally lethal overdose was noted as a result of the sexual abuse he suffered as a Duxbury Middle School student at the hands of his teacher.
[29] By April 2021, the Duxbury Public Schools terminated Mr. Blake's more-than two-decade career as an educator and coach.
[27] As of December 2022, Joseph Morgan, attorney for the estate of Mr. Foley, announced that plaintiffs reached a monetary settlement with the Duxbury Public Schools.