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Lexington High School is a public high school located in Lexington, Massachusetts. It has grades 9-12. The school's mascot is the Minuteman.

• Lexington High School has a Student/Faculty Senate that allows students to have power in what policies are implemented in the school. The Senate also has five seats open for students to represent under-represented groups.
• The school's math team produced five USAMO qualifiers in 2000, 2001, and 2002, four in 2003, and seven in 2006.^[1]
• The cross-country team was undefeated 2000–2006.
• Recently rated the 304th best high school in the country by Newsweek.
• Renowned for its music program, under the direction of several faculty members including Berklee graduate Jeffrey Leonard and former Boston Conservatory conducting professor Brian O'Connell. The award-winning program wincludes various a cappella groups, an award-winning wind ensemble and symphonic band, along with two orchestras and three choir groups. The jazz program includes a renowned jazz ensemble, a big band, a combo, and a septet.
• In 2005 Fred Phelps, of Topeka, Kansas and his church protested the Lexington High School graduation because of the school's support of its gay-straight alliance.
• The LABBB program, a special education program serving differently abled students from surrounding towns; Lexington, Arlington, Burlington, Belmont and Bedford is renowned for its emphasis on real world skills for the mentally handicapped
• Lexington High School's policy debate team has won the State Championship for the last 31 years^{[citation needed]}. In April 2007, the Public Forum team from LHS, Team Scorpion, composed of seniors Chrissy Kugel and Garth Goldwater won the National Championship at the Tournament of Champions
• Lexington High School's National Ocean Sciences Bowl team won the National competition for the first five years of its existence from 1998 to 2002.
• The Lexington Soccer freshman team was undefeated for seven years straight and their Junior Varsity and Varsity produced the 2006 Middlesex League MVP.
• The Lexington High School Boys swim team has won the Middlesex league Championship for nine years in a row and many more league championships making it the second most successful Lexington High School sports team. In 2006, a 4X100 freestyle relay team with Greg Lowen, Lee Chiang, Matthew O'Brien and Apoorv Kumar won the State Championship.
• The LHS Boys Indoor Track team won the Massachusetts Division I State Championships in 2006 and repeated in 2007
• In 2007, the Lexington Boys outdoor track team captured both the Division I State Championship and the All-State Championship
• In August 2004, Lexington high school was invited to perform at the Edinburgh festival in Scotland.

There were also two protesters outside the school on the Day of Silence in 2005 who were never identified.

Unidentified adults protesting the Day of Silence outside Lexington High School

Several students counter-protested silently until the adult protesters left. Besides the protesters outside the school, the day also encountered opposition within the student population. Stickers saying, "The way it's meant to be," and featuring images of a man and a woman holding hands were distributed by the mother of a freshman student. Approximately a dozen students wore the protest stickers. The opposition was unexpected because in previous years there had been little to no public opposition to the day at Lexington High School.

The Day of Silence on April 24, 2006 went off without any protesters against it or the gay-straight alliance. At least three police officers were stationed on the school quad for the Day of silence.

• Eugene Mirman, comedian
• Ron Lee, former NBA Basketball player (1977-82)
• Rachel Dratch of Saturday Night Live
• Ethan Zohn of Survivor: Africa
• Amanda Palmer of the duo The Dresden Dolls
• Lev Grossman, writer and contributor to Time Magazine
• Tom Silva, general contractor and on-screen personality for This Old House
• John Chew, award winning animator for 360Kid

1. ^ USAMO Historic Information.

• Official website
• On Phelps protesting
• The Student/Faculty Senate Website
• Great Schools.net profile
• Google Map
• Lexington Minuteman Article on the 2006 Day of Silence
• Controversy on books
• USAMO historic data