As she's set to take on a new role with the Vineyard public schools, Sara Dingledy reflected on how the high school has changed since she first arrived as principal in 2016.

The school building committee last week picked a conceptual design for a new school with a two-story classroom wing and a complete renovation of the original 1959 building and its 1980s addition.

When describing the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School class of 2025 one word immediately comes to mind for class advisors Erin Slossberg and Nell Coogan: resilience.

Arianna Edelman and Avery Mulvey have been best friends since they were four years old, climbing trees, jumping rope and taking dance classes together.

A few weeks ago as seniors in high school, the two were called into the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School’s front office where they learned they had the identical highest grade point average in the school, making them co-valedictorians. 

“We hugged in the hallway,” Ms. Mulvey remembered.

“It was really cute,” Ms. Edelman said. 

The search for a new Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School principal will focus initially on off-Island candidates after none of the current Vineyard principals expressed interest in the job.

Some Tisbury officials are expressing second thoughts about the long-sought regional high school building project, which could cost the town between $36 million and $64 million, based on current estimates, for its share of the total expense.

Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School will embark on a search for a new principal in the coming weeks after administrators announced principal Sara Dingledy is transitioning into a new role in the public school system.

A proposed music festival at the Martha’s Vineyard Sharks ballpark got a preliminary but unanimous thumbs-up this week from the regional high school committee, owner of the park on school property in Oak Bluffs.

The building committee for the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School is giving itself more time to narrow down options for a new or renovated school.