Severna Park High School

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Severna Park High School
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Severna Park High School
60 Robinson Rd

Severna Park
,
Maryland

United States
Coordinates 39°4′37″N76°33′39″W / 39.07694°N 76.56083°W / 39.07694; -76.56083 Coordinates: 39°4′37″N76°33′39″W / 39.07694°N 76.56083°W / 39.07694; -76.56083
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TypePublic
Established1959
School district Anne Arundel County Public Schools
PrincipalLindsay Abruzzo
Faculty100+ [1]
Grades9-12
Enrollment1,880 (2020-2021) [2]
CampusLarge suburb [3]
Color(s) Blue, Gold, and White
   
MascotFalcons
Rival Broadneck High School Bruins
NewspaperTalon
Website http://www.severnaparkhigh.org/

Severna Park High School is a public high school in the United States located in the suburban CDP of Severna Park, Maryland. It is a part of the Anne Arundel County Public Schools system. SPHS opened its doors to students in 1959 and was the seventh public high school opened in Anne Arundel County. (It is the fourth-oldest to remain open after Arundel, Annapolis, and Glen Burnie High Schools as Brooklyn Park and Andover High Schools were replaced by North County High School in 1990 and the all-Black Wiley H. Bates High School became an integrated middle school in 1966). Its principal is Lindsay Abruzzo. A new school was built on the same grounds, and opened in January 2017. The Falcons are sports rivals with nearby Broadneck High School.

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Students

Severna Park High School has one feeder middle school: Severna Park Middle School, which has 6 feeder elementary schools: Benfield Elementary School, Folger Mckinsey Elementary School, Jones Elementary School, Oak Hill Elementary School, Severna Park Elementary School, and Shipley's Choice Elementary School. Although it is named Severna Park High School, some portions of Millersville, Arnold, and Pasadena are also zoned for Severna Park High School and its feeder schools, while the neighborhood of Riverdale in the eastern edge of Severna Park is zoned for Chesapeake High School and its feeder schools. Severna Park High School's boundaries have remained unchanged since 1995 after Anne Arundel County Public Schools conducted a county-wide school redistricting to handle overcrowding at schools across the county. The redistricting resulted in Belvedere Elementary School in Arnold being moved out of Severna Park High School's feeder system and into Broadneck High School's feeder system.

Academics and rankings

Severna Park High School has often been ranked highly in a number of publications over several years. Severna Park High School was ranked among the top 10 high schools in Maryland and the top 300 - 400 high schools in the country by U.S. News & World Report in 2012, 2013, 2015, and 2020. The first year that U.S. News released high school rankings, 2012, Severna Park High School was ranked as the number one high school in the entire Baltimore region and number 211 in the United States. U.S. News included Anne Arundel County Public Schools, Howard County Public Schools, Baltimore County Public Schools, Carroll County Public Schools, Baltimore City Public Schools, Harford County Public Schools, and Queen Anne’s County Public Schools as being part of the Baltimore region. [4] In 2020, U.S. News ranked Severna Park as the third best high school in the Baltimore region, the ninth best school in the state of Maryland, and number 403 in the United States.

In 2011, Severna Park High School was named both a National and Maryland Blue Ribbon school.

In 2018, the Maryland State Department of Education began assigning star ratings to schools in the state. In 2019, Severna Park High School and all the other schools within the Severna Park feeder system received a 5/5 star rating. Severna Park’s ratings were among the best in the state of the Maryland.

In 2020, GreatSchools gave Severna Park High School a 10/10 score in terms of racial equity and said that the school is successfully closing the academic achievement gap between white students and disenfranchised ethnic minority students. Black and Asian students’ test scores and performance at the school were rated a 10/10, and Hispanic students’ performance at the school were rated a 8/10, the same as that of white students. However, the school has notable equity issues when it comes to low-income students’ scores and performance [5]

Academic competition

It's Academic!

Severna Park High School It's Academic competes in a regional game show against outstanding students from other high schools. The team has been the top Anne Arundel County team in back-to-back years and has also reached the Baltimore semifinals in 2015, 2016, and the finals in 2017. [6]

Mock trial

The school's mock trial team has won the state championships in 2006, 2008, 2010, and 2015. [7]

The mock trial team has been a powerhouse in the county for many years and did not lose in county competition until 2009.[ citation needed ] In their 2010 run to the State Championship, the mock trial team went undefeated.[ citation needed ] The team reached the State Championship level in 2015 after being undefeated in the county and regional competitions, and won. [7]

Athletics

Special Olympic teams

Severna Park has three teams for special education students and other students to act as helpers. In the fall they have unified tennis, in winter they have unified bowling, and in the spring they have unified bocce.

Notable alumni

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