Calvert High School (Prince Frederick, Maryland)
Calvert High School is a public high school in Prince Frederick, Maryland, United States and is part of the Calvert County Public Schools.
| Calvert High School | |
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| Address | |
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520 Fox Run Blvd , United States | |
| Coordinates | 38°33′11″N 76°34′57″W |
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| Type | Public Secondary |
| Motto | Involvement Equals Success |
| Established | 1963 (present name) |
| School district | Calvert County Public Schools |
| Principal | Steven Lucas |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 1,173 (2015-16)[1] |
| Campus type | suburban |
| Color(s) | Blue and Gold |
| Athletics conference | Southern Maryland Athletic Conference |
| Mascot | Cavaliers |
| Rival | Patuxent High School |
| Newspaper | The Courier |
| Website | chsweb |
The campus is on Dares Beach Road and includes the main school building, a gym for basketball games, a football stadium, a baseball field, tennis courts, a soccer field, a lacrosse and field hockey field, and a large auditorium used for school concerts and plays. Additionally, it also includes the Arthur Storer Planetarium, named for the Calvert County resident and the original namesake of Halley's Comet. A vocational education center is adjacent to the main school building.
Before moving to its current campus in 1963, Calvert High School used to be along Maryland Route 2/Maryland Route 4. The building once served as a building for Calvert Middle School, a public middle school that serves as a feeder school of Calvert High. Calvert Middle School recently moved from that building and built a new school in Prince Frederick. In 1965, desegregation of the Calvert County Public Schools led to Brooks High School — the county's then all-black high school — being merged with Calvert High.
Calvert High's school mascot is the Cavaliers. The sports teams compete in the Southern Maryland Athletic Conference. Calvert High's athletic rivals include the neighboring schools of Northern High School, Huntingtown High School, and Patuxent High School. In 2000, the Cavaliers captured the Maryland State Division 3A American football championship under the leadership of head coach Jerry Franks. In 2015, the Calvert High School Varsity Girls Soccer Team also added to Calvert's achievements by winning the Maryland 2A State Championship under the leadership of Dawn Lister and Damon Williams. Calvert High's cross country team has proven to show success in the past few years with their advancements to State matches and Regional Titles. Calvert High and Patuxent High are the only 2A schools in the county.
Along with many achievements in sports Calvert high school has had significant success in academic achievements. Such related activities include the success of the Vex robotics team. Calvert has attended the world's competition numerous time and even ranked 5th in their division in years passed. Recently in 2014 one of its teams, 1670d attended the worlds competition in Aneheim, California. In 2015 team 1670a was able to make it as far as the state semifinals. Finally, in 2016 team 1670a placed as the second best alliance in the state and moved on to compete in the world competition held in Louisville, Kentucky. 1670a is now considered the best robotics team in the state. Although the 2017 teams did not make it as far as the state competition, they did have a great run considering the previously mentioned 1670a team had graduated and was no longer available for guidance or competition. One team in particular, team 1670x, was especially notable as an underdog and somewhat of a successor to 1670a.
As of 2015, the total attendees of Calvert is 1,166 students total that make up grades nine through twelve. The attendance rate among these students is 93.8%. Out of these 1,166 student in 2015, 591 are female and 575 are male.7% of students are receiving special services for Special Education.
References
- "Calvert High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved November 5, 2018.