Old Saybrook Senior High School is a secondary school located in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, USA. It has a current enrollment of 463 with a student to teacher ratio of about 11.60. Old Saybrook students consistently exceed national and state averages on standardized tests. The school, its students and its teachers have won numerous awards in academics, the arts, athletics and other areas.
In 1976, a re-creation of the first submarine ever used in battle, the American Turtle was designed by Joseph Leary and constructed by Fred Frese as a Bicentennial project. It was christened by Connecticut's governor, Ella Grasso, and later tested in the Connecticut River. It is owned by the Connecticut River Museum and is currently on loan to Old Saybrook Senior High School, where students under the direction of Fred Frese are currently building a working re-creation of that model.
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