Editing Lakeville, Massachusetts (section)

==Education==

Since 1959, Lakeville has shared its school department with Freetown, creating the Freetown-Lakeville Regional School District. Lakeville operates several schools for its school aged population.  [[Assawompset Elementary School]] is operated jointly with [[Freetown, Massachusetts|Freetown]] for grades K–3.  The [[George R. Austin Intermediate School]] is operated jointly with [[Freetown, Massachusetts|Freetown]] for grade 4 and 5.  [[Freetown-Lakeville Middle School]] is operated jointly with Freetown for grades 6–8, and [[Apponequet Regional High School]] is jointly operated with Freetown for grades 9–12.  Apponequet's colors are navy, white, and red, their nickname is the "Lakers," and their mascot was a [[Wampanoag people|Wampanoag]] brave, but after a sensitivity issue among the faculty at Apponequet, it was changed to an "A".  The school, like several others in the region, used to use the spear logo made famous by [[Florida State University]] and the [[Washington Redskins]] for its athletics marks, but this was deemed to promote violence, so it was replaced with the "A".  Their teams compete in the South Coast Conference, and their chief rival is Old Rochester Regional High School in Mattapoisett.