Brockton High School state as well. The stadium also plays host to numerous Massachusetts high school football state playoff games, including the sectional and regional finals. The BHS baseball team plays at Campanelli Stadium, constructed in 2002, which also plays host to the amateur baseball team, the Brockton Rox, of the Futures Collegiate Baseball League. In 2012, a nearly 30-foot tall bronze statue of Rocky Marciano was erected outside the north end of the stadium as a tribute to the legendary boxer. There is a club for most of the cultures that are within the student body (cape-verdian club, Haitian club...) There are
Brockton, Massachusetts and 14.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 19.4% of those under age 18 and 12.6% of those age 65 or over. Statistically, Brockton is the most populous and most densely populated community in Plymouth County. It is the sixth largest community in the commonwealth, the largest of the sub-100,000 person cities. However, it is only the twenty-seventh most densely populated community in the Commonwealth. Data is from the 2009-2013 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. On the national level, Brockton is a part of Massachusetts's 8th congressional district, and has been represented since 2001 by Stephen Lynch.