Correction to the first paragraph on the second page above. There are Hopedale School Committee reports in the town report, beginning in 1887, that mention Hopedale having a high school and reporting on graduations. That doesn’t mean that there was a high school building at that time. At various times during the years before a school was built, high school classes were held in the Chapel Street School (built in 1868), the Town Hall, and one of the boarding houses. There were two graduates in 1887 and one in 1888. Evidently some Hopedale students who had started high school in Milford, remained there until they graduated. Hopedale’s first high school was completed in 1889. Click here to go to Hopedale School History.