Washington Academy and High School (commonly abbreviated to WAHS), also once known as simply Washington High School (WHS), is a public high school in Somerset County, Maryland, United States. The school handles five grades: 8th grade is handled in the "academy" section of the school, while grades 9 through 12 are handled as high school.[2]
The current building was constructed in 1975 and is 129,534 square feet (12,034.1m2) is size. The school property is 32.14 acres (130,100m2).[3]
Students
Washington's graduation rate has been steadily rising over the past 12 years. In 2007, 81.7% of the class of 2007 graduated, up from 70.4% in 1996.[4]
Washington Academy and High School is a fairly small high school. In 2007, the school was near its 12-year high enrollment with 649 students, though 673 were enrolled in 2006.
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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.. 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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Interscholastic athletics at Baltimore City College date back over 120 years. Though varsity sports were not formally organized until 1895, interscholastic athletics became a fixture at the school earlier in the 19th century. In the late-1890s, City competed in the Maryland Intercollegiate Football Association (MIFA), a nine-member league consisting of colleges in Washington, D.C., and Maryland. City College was the lone secondary school among MIFA membership. The 1895 football schedule included St. John's College, Swarthmore College, the United States Naval Academy, University of Maryland, and Washington College. Between 1894 and 1920, City College regularly faced off against the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays and the Navy Midshipmen in lacrosse.
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