Governor Thomas Johnson High School | |
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1501 North Market Street , 21701 United States | |
Coordinates | 39°26′2″N77°24′18″W / 39.43389°N 77.40500°W Coordinates: 39°26′2″N77°24′18″W / 39.43389°N 77.40500°W |
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Type | Public high school |
Opened | September 6, 1966 |
School district | Frederick County Public Schools |
Principal | Tracey Kibler [1] |
Teaching staff | 87.00 (FTE) [2] |
Grades | 9-12 |
Enrollment | 1,578 (2017–18) [2] |
Student to teacher ratio | 18.14 [2] |
Campus | Small City |
Campus size | 40 acres (160,000 m2) |
Color(s) | Red, white, and blue |
Athletics conference | Central Maryland Conference |
Nickname | Patriots |
Rival | Frederick High School |
Newspaper | TJ Chronicle |
Yearbook | Tricorn |
Feeder schools | Monocacy Middle School & Gov. Thomas Johnson Middle School |
Website | edu |
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Governor Thomas Johnson High School (GTJHS) is a four-year public high school in Frederick, Maryland, United States. The school is home to the Academy of Fine Arts, an auditioned-only visual and performing arts program for talented students in Frederick County from Grades 9th to 12th. The school is also home to the naval Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps for Frederick County.
The school is named after former Maryland Governor Thomas Johnson who was the first post-colonial governor of the state. He was also a delegate to the Continental Congress and an associate justice of the Supreme Court. Johnson himself received no formal education and taught himself the law while working for an attorney and qualified at age 28. [5]
The school is located on Maryland Route 355, north of 14th Street, and southeast of U.S. Route 15. The building has 292,940 square feet (27,215 m2) of space located on 40 acres (16 ha) of land. [6] The address is 1501 N. Market Street in Frederick, MD 21701.
Gov. Thomas Johnson High has around 1,850 students and the demographics are as follows for 2021-2022 year [7]
30.5% White
23.7% African American
35.1% Hispanic
4.7% Multiracial
Thomas Johnson's graduation rate has been steadily rising over the past 12 years. In 2007 the school graduated 93.85%, the highest rate in the past 12 years and The school had a low of 84.91% in 1999. [8]
The school's population had been steadily rising over the years, but has been decreasing over the last 4 years due to the redistricting of some students to Oakdale High School.
1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
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1,339 | 1,375 | 1,396 | 1,407 | 1,457 | 1,503 | 1,548 | 1,689 | 1,743 | 1,858 | 1,953 | 1,925 | 1,987 | 1,994 | 1,995 | 2,022 | 1,994 | 2,000 | 1,681 | 1,583 | 1,524 | 1,489 |
Governor Thomas Johnson High School is home to 2 "academies" for Frederick County Public Schools.
The "Academy for the Fine Arts" has been at GTJHS since the late 1980s. [10] AFA, as it is called, offers various college level classes pertaining to the arts for students in 10th, 11th, and 12th grade. [11]
The Naval Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps was a new addition to GTJHS for the 2015–16 school year. [12] The program had previously been held at Linganore High School. [13] The NJROTC features an orienteering team, a rifle team, and a drill team.
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