Centennial High School (Howard County, Maryland)

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Centennial High School
Mount Hebron High School
NewspaperThe Wingspan
YearbookEyrie
Feeder schoolsBurleigh Manor Middle School (Majority), Dunloggin Middle School, Ellicott Mills Middle School
Websitehttp://chs.hcpss.org
Turf field at Centennial High School
Turf field at Centennial High School

Centennial High School is a

Howard County Public Schools system. The school is named after its road frontage on Centennial Lane, built in 1876 as a shortcut through Denton Hammond's slave plantation Burleigh Manor between Clarksville and Ellicott City.[2][3]

In 1984–85, the school was recognized as one of the top 100 high schools in the country through the USDE Secondary School Recognition Program.[4] In 1996, Centennial High School was the first high school within Maryland to achieve the excellence standard in all categories of the Maryland State Performance Assessment Program's (MSPAP) report card.[citation needed] The school maintained these standards throughout 2000 and 2001. In 2008, the school was nominated by U.S. News & World Report as a "silver medal" school, placing in the top 505 high schools nationwide.[5] In a 2012 joint study by Newsweek and The Daily Beast, Centennial was ranked the second-best public high school in Maryland and number 111 in the nation.[6] In 2014, Centennial was ranked as the best public school in Maryland and the United States.[7] In 2017 the school was awarded "gold medal" by US News & World Report which ranked it as the best school nationwide.[8]

In 2015, the Centennial men's basketball team bested Westlake for the Maryland 3A state title.[9]

Centennial High School
Centennial High School sign at the front entrance

The school has a maximum capacity of 1,360 students, but through the addition of nine portable classrooms currently (as of 2022) enrolls over 1,614 students. Of those in attendance, 41.7% are Asian, 38.6% are White, 8.9% are African American, 5.6% are Hispanic, 0.3% are Native American, 0.2% are Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, and 5.1% are two or more races.[1][10]

Notable alumni

References and notes

  1. ^ a b "2017-18 School profile" (PDF). HCPSS. Retrieved April 22, 2018.
  2. ASIN B00CD8BQH8
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  3. ^ William Hand Browne (1956). Maryland Historical Magazine. Louis Henry Dielman Maryland Historical Society. p. 213.
  4. ^ Schools Recognized 1982-1983 Through 1999-2002 Archived June 30, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ "Centennial High: Best High Schools - USNews.com". Archived from the original on April 4, 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-04.
  6. ^ http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/05/20/america-s-best-high-schools.html
  7. ^ "America's Top Schools 2014". Newsweek. September 13, 2014. Retrieved April 22, 2018.
  8. ^ "Centennial High". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved April 22, 2018.
  9. ^ "Centennial boys basketball pulls away from Westlake for first state title". The Baltimore Sun. 14 March 2015. Retrieved October 21, 2019.
  10. ^ "Centennial High School Profile 2021" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2015-09-06.
  11. ^ Feinberg, Lawrence (September 9, 1989). "Student's Thesis Explores Her Black Identity". The Washington Post. p. B1.
  12. ^ Baker, Kent (November 7, 2006). "No. 15 seed Towson, No. 5 Maryland get byes in NCAA soccer". The Baltimore Sun.
  13. ^ Hazel, Jim (February 2, 1984). "Budding Scientists". The Washington Post.
  14. ^ D'Ippolito, Monica (July 11, 2016). "Ellicott City's Russell preparing for Olympics with USA Volleyball". The Baltimore Sun.
  15. ^ Nitkin, Karen (April 8, 2007). "Meet the Ulmans". Baltimore Sun. Retrieved January 29, 2019.

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