Glenelg Country School
Glenelg Country School | |
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Location | |
12793 Folly Quarter Road Ellicott City, Maryland | |
Information | |
Type | Private school |
Established | 1954 |
Head of school | Matthew J. Walsh |
Faculty | 214 |
Color(s) | Green and white |
Mascot | Dragons |
Website | glenelg |
Glenelg Manor | |
Nearest city | Glenelg, Maryland |
Coordinates | 39°15′07″N 76°57′42″W / 39.2519°N 76.9617°W |
Area | 50 acres (20 ha) |
Built | 1851 |
Architectural style | Gothic Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 83002952[1] |
Added to NRHP | 3 February 1983 |
Glenelg Country School is a
History
The Glenelg Manor was built on a part of land patented as "Dorsey's Grove" in 1721.[2] It also included land patented by John Dorsey named "Dorseys Luck" renamed to "Howard's Resolution".[3] Glenelg Manor houses the Glenelg Country School elementary division. The original structure of the house dates from circa 1740 to the second half of the 18th century, and may have been built by Ephraim Howard.[4][5][6]
General Joseph Tyson built the Tudor expansion in the 1800s
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]
Glenelg Country School
The original building was rented in 1954 when the Glenelg Country School was founded by
In 2014, County Executive
Overview
- 750 students age 2 through grade 12
- 111 faculty members, 11 assistant teachers; 65% of faculty hold advanced degrees
- Student/Faculty Ratio: 6:1
- Average Class Size: 15
- 18 Advanced Placement courses offered
- College Placement: 2 full-time college counselors; Class of 2015 SAT average score of 1846; 100% of seniors are accepted to four-year colleges or universities; the class of 2015 was awarded over $5.8 million in merit scholarships
Notable alumni
- Isaiah Miles (born 1994), basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Athletics
- 2006 - Varsity Girls Tennis won the IAAM B Conference Championship
- 2006 - Ice Hockey won the MIAA C Conference Championship
- 2007 - Varsity Boys Basketball won the MIAA C Conference Championship
- 2007 - Women's Cross Country won the Private School's State Championship
- 2008 - Varsity Tennis won the MIAA B Conference Championship; the team also brought home two individual titles
- 2008 - Ice Hockey won the MIAA B Conference Championship
- 2010 - Varsity Golf won the MIAA B Conference Championship
- 2010 - Varsity Boys Lacrosse makes MIAA B Conference Championship for first time in program history
- 2011 - Varsity Women's Field Hockey won the IAAM B Conference Championship
- 2011 - Varsity Women's Cross Country won the IAAM C Conference Championship
- 2011 - Varsity Boys Basketball won the MIAA B Conference Championship
- 2011 - Varsity Boys Basketball Team moved up to the MIAA A Conference
- 2013 - Varsity Boys Baseball won the MIAA B Conference Championship
- 2013 - Varsity Boys Cross Country won the MIAA B Conference Championship
- 2014 - Varsity Girls Soccer won the IAAM C Conference Championship (undefeated season)
- 2015 - Varsity Girls Lacrosse won the IAAM B Conference Championship
- 2015 - Varsity Girls Soccer won the IAAM C Conference Championship
- 2016 - Varsity Girls Lacrosse won the IAAM B Conference Championship
- 2016 - Varsity Girls Lacrosse team moved up to the IAAM A Conference
- 2017 - Varsity Girls Indoor Track and Field won the IAAM B Conference Championship
- 2017 - Varsity Girls Outdoor Track and Field won the IAAM B Conference Championship
The Arts
Music and art classes begin at age 2 and continue through twelfth grade. Music classes include: chorus; recorder ensembles; bell choirs; bands; a jazz ensemble; a woodwind trio; a string quartet; Lower, Upper School plays; Middle and Upper School musicals, with 50% of Upper School students participating in the performing arts. There are music rooms in each division and a 350-seat Mulitz Theater with a scenery shop and dressing rooms.
Art classes include: painting, drawing, film and digital photography, ceramics, wood-working, metals, and other specialized classes. Each division has a studio space. The Upper School has separate 2-D and 3-D facilities and a black/white photography lab.
Gallery
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Glenelg Manor House, Front View
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Glenelg Manor, Rear View, January 2011 showing the original house on the left and the Tudor style addition on the right
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Glenelg Manor, Tower, January 2011
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Upper School, Glenelg Country School
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The Gould Observatory, Glenelg Country School. It houses an EDF Refractor Telescope.
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Varsity Boys Lacrosse, Glenelg Country School
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Varsity Boys Tennis, Glenelg Country School
See also
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Howard County Historic Society. Images of America Howard County. p. 33.
- ^ a b Stein, Charles Francis (1972). Origin and History of Howard County Maryland (First ed.). Charles Francis Stein, Jr. p. 251.
- ^ "Glenelg County School at Howard's Resolution". The Times (Ellicott City). 31 March 1965.
- ^ "Glenelg Country School History". Archived from the original on 2008-12-19. Retrieved 2019-12-16.
- ^ Ellen Coxe; Mark R. Edwards (March 1980). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Elmonte" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
- ^ Howard's Roads to the Past. Howard County Sesquicentennial Celebration Committee, 2001. p. 12.
- ^ "CR-121-2014". Retrieved 22 October 2014.
- ^ "Championships | MIAASports.net".
- ^ "The Official Website of the Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland".
External links
- School official site
- Profile in Private Schools Review
- Glenelg Manor, Howard County, including photo from 2001, at Maryland Historical Trust