La Plata High School

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La Plata High School
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Address
La Plata High School
6035 Radio Station Road

La Plata
,
Maryland
20646

United States
Coordinates 38°32′46.1″N76°57′1.4″W / 38.546139°N 76.950389°W / 38.546139; -76.950389
Information
Established1927
PrincipalDouglass Dolan [1]
Staff72.00 (FTE) [2]
Grades9-12
Enrollment1,108 (2017-18) [2]
Student to teacher ratio15.39 [2]
Color(s)Navy Blue and White ██
Athletics conference Southern Maryland Athletic Conference
MascotWarrior [3]
Feeder SchoolsPiccowaxen, Somers
Website https://www.ccboe.com/schools/laplata/

La Plata High School is part of the Charles County Public Schools and is located in La Plata, Maryland, United States. The current school was built in 1979. Before that, it was in the building (built in 1964) which now holds Milton M. Somers Middle School. [4] [5]

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History

On November 9, 1926, the La Plata Elementary School was destroyed by a tornado that killed 13 students. [6] [7] That two room building was replaced by a new school that housed both an elementary and high school for La Plata. [8]

Demographics

As of 2010, La Plata High School has an enrollment of 1,396 students with a demographic profile of 73.6% White, 22.6% Black, 1.7% Asian or Pacific Islander 1.5% Hispanic, and 0.7% American Indian. The Schoolwide Reading Proficiency is 85.8%, while the Schoolwide Math Proficiency is 91.9%. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ "Administrative Team" . Retrieved 17 June 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 "La Plata High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved March 24, 2020.
  3. ↑ School Information Archived 2008-01-29 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ Partlow, Joshua (January 20, 2005). "Anticipating Growth, Charles Weighs New Government Building". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2007-12-24.
    In turn, Milton Somers was housed until 1964 in the Government Building, on Baltimore Street.
  5. ↑ Kathryn Cochrane Newcomb (1981). "What's In a Name?". Charles County Board of Education. Retrieved November 19, 2021.
  6. ↑ Thomas R. Brooks (November 1926). "The Tornado in Southern Maryland, November 3, 1926". Monthly Weather Review. American Meteorological Society. 54, 11 (11): 462. Bibcode:1926MWRv...54..462B. doi: 10.1175/1520-0493(1926)54<462:TTISMN>2.0.CO;2 .
  7. ↑ "La Plata Elementary School". The Historical Marker Database. February 3, 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-18.
  8. ↑ Zilliox, Jacqueline (2007). Charles County. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN   978-0-7385-4407-6.
  9. ↑ "La Plata High School". School Matters. Retrieved 2007-12-18.
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