Surrattsville High School

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Surrattsville High School
Address
Surrattsville High School
6101 Garden Drive

Clinton
,
Maryland
20735

United States
Coordinates 38°45′43″N76°54′6″W / 38.76194°N 76.90167°W / 38.76194; -76.90167
Information
School type Public, High school
Established1959;65 years ago (1959)
School district Prince George's County Public School System
PrincipalKatrina Lamont [1]
Faculty60.50 (FTE) (2016–17) [2]
Grades 9 – 12 [2]
Gender Co-ed
Enrollment738 (2016–17) [2]
Student to teacher ratio12.20 (2016–17) [2]
Color(s)  Kelly Green
  White [3]
Mascot Hornets [3]
Website www.pgcps.org/surrattsville/
Surrattsville High School

Surrattsville High School or SHS is a public high school located in Clinton, Maryland, United States and is a part of the Prince George's County Public School System in Prince George's County, Maryland.

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Surrattsville was the town of Clinton's original name, taken from Mary Surratt and her family, who once owned the property on which the school now stands.

History

In 2009, Sheryll Cashin said in The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class are Undermining the American Dream that Surrattsville High was one of several mostly black, mostly middle class PG County public high schools that was "decidedly underachieving: fewer than half of the seniors at these schools went on to attend four-year colleges in recent years." [4]

Athletics

The boys' basketball team had a good season in 2010.[ citation needed ]

The baseball team reached the State Semifinals in 2010 before falling to Clear Spring.[ citation needed ]

Davin Meggett, son of former NFL player Dave Meggett, was part of a playoff appearance by the football team in 2007. The younger Meggett also played for the school baseball team. After leading the football team in the 2007 season, Tom Green left to be the football coach and athletic director Eleanor Roosevelt High School.

Surrattsville won the Maryland State Championship in 1962 and 1965, when it competed in the AA class, the largest at that time.[ citation needed ] The 1965 team defeated Allegheny HS, ranked number 3 in the nation and Parkville HS, ranked number 16 in back to back games to win the title.[ citation needed ] Each team had lost only once before losing to the Hornets. Robert Vaughn was the head coach of each state title team.[ citation needed ]

Notable alumni

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References

  1. ↑ "Principal". Prince George's County Public School System . Retrieved July 21, 2019– via www1.pgcps.org.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Search for Public Schools - Surrattsville High (240051001167)". National Center for Education Statistics . Institute of Education Sciences . Retrieved July 21, 2019.
  3. 1 2 "Surrattsville Hornets" . Retrieved March 9, 2008.
  4. ↑ Cashin, Sheryll. "The Dilemma of the Black Middle Class." Issue 9 - Segregation & Integration - November 2005. The Next American City . Retrieved on November 7, 2011.
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