Other Schools

Salem Central School, located ten miles north, has merged high-school sports programs in football, wrestling, and field hockey with Cambridge. As our schools recognize that dwindling populations in our small communities affect enrollment numbers, this combined sports program will likely grow. Together, they have run a very successful pee-wee football program for years, using Tigers and Cubs as their emblems. The Cambridge-Salem team colors are black, orange and purple; the schools have done an excellent job of bridging the two teams and their combined spirits together. It is our position that this merger of sports teams signals an opportunity for a new mascot, one that recognizes this partnership, and honors both schools' commitment to sports excellence, racial equity and social justice.

Schools in the news that have changed their race-based mascots recently:

• Cheyenne Mountain School District, Colorado, 3/15/2021

• Gar-Field High School, Virginia, 3/15/2021

• Danville High School, Vermont, 3/4/2021

• Barnstable High School, Massachusetts, 1/13/2021

• Fresno High School, California, 12/10/2020

• Farmington High School, Connecticut, 12/8/2020

• Bountiful High School, Utah, 11/30/2020

• Rutland High School, Vermont, 10/21/2020

• Pentucket Regional School District, Massachusetts, 10/14/2020

• Pocatello High School, Idaho, 9/17/2020

• Saugatuck Public Schools, Michigan, 8/18/2020

• Glastonbury High School, Connecticut, 8/18/2020

• Nyack School District, New York, 8/13/2020

• Peru Central Schools, New York, 7/15/2020

• Anderson High School, Ohio, 7/2/2020

• Guilford High School, Connecticut, 6/29/2020

• Skowhegan High School, Maine, 3/7/2019

• Manchester High School, Connecticut, 6/24/2019

  • Editorial about moving on after the change

• Burlington High School, Vermont, 10/26/2018

• Lancaster, New York, 3/17/2015

• Cooperstown High School, New York, 5/2/2013

• Stockbridge Valley Central School, New York, 2001

Here is a chronological list of schools and other organizations that have dropped race-based mascots, 1969 - 2020. This list is from an excellent website about mascots and the harm they cause Native peoples.