Northern High School opened halfway through the 1973-1974 school year.
Harrison Cultural Arts Center
On July 26, 2016, the Calvert County Board of Education awarded a replacement contract to J.A. Scheibel Construction Inc. of Huntingtown, Md., for the total replacement of Northern High School. This project was expected to cost $69,382,000 and was completed in December 2018.[needs update] The phased construction was to implement a 244,090-square-foot (22,677m2) building that could house up to 1,500 students. The contract also covered renovations to the Mary D. Harrison Cultural Arts Center, which is attached to the school.[2] Construction of the main building was completed in December 2018, and classes moved to the new building the following month. The administration wing was completed during the 2019-2020 school year.[3]
School campus
During the second half of the '88-'89 school year, the Fox television network filmed a pilot episode of an unnamed television series at the school. [4]
Music
The Northern High School Marching Patriots have won numerous awards and competitions. At USBands events, the band became 1A state champions in 2021, 2022, and 2024, and 2A state champions in 2019.[5][6] The band won national 1AA Champions in 2022 and 2025. In 2025, the band tied with Chopticon High School to become group 1A co-state champions at the USBands Maryland and Virginia State Championships at Calvert Hall College High School.[7] A week later, the band became the Group 1AA national champions at the USBands I A, IV A, V A, & I Open Championships in Linden, Pennsylvania.[8]
Demographics
The demographic breakdown of the 1,467 students enrolled for the 2023-24 was:
Male - 50.4%
Female - 49.6%
Native American/Alaskan - >0.1%
Asian - 1.9%
Black - 11.4%
Hispanic - 4.3%
Native Hawaiian/Pacific islander - 0.2%
White - 76.8%
Multiracial - 5.3%
Figures for students receiving financial assistance with meals were not reported to NCES for 2016-17.[1]
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