Century High School (Sykesville, Maryland)

Century High School is located in Eldersburg, Maryland, United States within the Carroll County Public School District. The school was built in 2000/2001 on 65 acres (260,000 m2) of land and cost $21.2 million to complete. The building is 204,161 square feet (18,967.2 m2) in size.[2]

Century High School
Address
355 Ronsdale Road

Sykesville
,
Maryland

United States
Coordinates39°25′32″N 76°59′30″W
Information
TypePublic Secondary
Motto"Knights never pull out!”
Established2001
School districtCarroll County Public Schools
CategoryPublic School Grade (9-12)
PrincipalBrian Booz
Enrollment1132 students[1]
Campus67.8 acres (274,000 m2)[2]
Color(s)Emerald Green, Gold, Black and White        
MascotKnights
National rankingNational Blue Ribbon School[3]
Websitewww.carrollk12.org/chs/

Century High School Sign
Century High School

The school's colors are emerald green, gold, black, and white, and the mascot is a knight, chosen by the original principal, Dave Booz.

History

With the rapid growth of southern Carroll County, a new high school was required to alleviate overcrowding at the nearby Liberty High School and South Carroll High School.

Academic Team

Century High School currently has an academic team and regularly participates in the local TV show, It's Academic.

Drama

The drama club at Century High School performed Beauty and the Beast as their 2007 musical, the first school in the county to do so. In the past, they have done The Sound of Music, Guys and Dolls, The Diary of Anne Frank, Annie, The Mouse That Roared, Winnie the Pooh, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Romeo and Juliet, It's A Wonderful Life, Cinderella, Little Women, Treasure Island, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, “Newsies”, and “White Christmas”. In 2016, Century placed 2nd in the state at the International Thespian Society's Maryland State Festival with their performance of The Miracle Worker. CHS was the first school in Carroll County to have an outdoor theater for the school's Rude Mechanicals to perform on. The Rude Mechanicals is an acting troupe, named after the clowns in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. They perform Shakespeare skits both at Century and throughout the community.

Athletics

Their rival football team is Liberty High School. The rivalry is sometimes referred to as “The Crosstown Showdown”.

State Championships
  • 2002 - Girls Soccer, Class 2A[4]
  • 2003 - Girls Soccer, Class 2A
  • 2003 - Boys Soccer[5]
  • 2004 - Girls Lacrosse
  • 2006 - Girls Lacrosse
  • 2007 - Girls Lacrosse
  • 2009 - Girls Lacrosse
  • 2009 - Girls Cross Country, Class 2A [6]
  • 2010 - Girls Indoor Track
  • 2010 - Girls Lacrosse
  • 2010 - Girls Cross Country
  • 2011 - Volleyball
  • 2011 - Girls Indoor Track
  • 2011 - Boys Indoor Track
  • 2011 - Girls Cross Country
  • 2012 - Boys Indoor Track
  • 2013 - Boys Outdoor Track
  • 2013 - Girls Soccer, Class 2A
  • 2013 - Field Hockey
  • 2015 - Boys Outdoor Track
  • 2015 - Girls Lacrosse
  • 2017 - Boys Indoor Track
  • 2017 - Boys Outdoor Track
  • 2017 - Girls Lacrosse
  • 2018 - Boys Indoor Track
  • 2018 - Baseball
  • 2019 - Volleyball
  • 2019 - Boys Soccer

Students
Student population[7]
2014 201020092008200720062005200420032002
1119[8] 1,2821,2861,2491,2581,2431,2091,191874543

References
  1. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-10-27. Retrieved 2016-10-26.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "Maryland Property Database". Archived from the original on 2011-05-24. Retrieved 2007-12-12.
  3. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-10-27. Retrieved 2016-10-26.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. MPSSAA Girls Soccer Archived March 8, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
  5. Century High website Archived September 19, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  6. https://www.mpssaa.org/assets/1/6/Fall_record_book_Record_Book.pdf
  7. Maryland State Department of Education
  8. "Error" (PDF). www.carrollk12.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-12-20. Retrieved 2016-01-21.
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