Mount Hebron High School

Mount Hebron High School is a public high school located in Ellicott City, Maryland, United States. It is part of the Howard County Public School System.

Mount Hebron High School
Location
9440 Route 99
Ellicott City, MD 21042

United States
Information
TypePublic high school
MottoHome of the Vikings
Established1965
PrincipalJoelle Miller
FacultyApprox 120
Enrollment1,411
Color(s)Black and Gold    
MascotViking
Websitemhhs.hcpss.org

About the school

Mt. Hebron opened in 1965 as a junior high school. When Patapsco Middle School opened nearby in 1969, Mt. Hebron was converted into a high school. Mt. Hebron was ranked 671st in Newsweek magazine's "America's Best High Schools" listing in 2006 and was ranked 598th in 2007.[1] It has a 92.4% graduation rate and its latest renovations were completed in 2011.[2]

Mount Hebron High School is named after the nearby 21,252 acre slave plantation and manor. Mt. Hebron is a stone home built by Col John Worthington Dorsey for his son Thomas Beale Dorsey in 1808.[3]

Geography

Mt. Hebron High School is located in suburban Howard County, approximately 10 miles west of Baltimore. It is at the intersection of St. Johns Lane and Route 99, Old Frederick Road, just west of U.S. 29 and north of I-70.

Athletics

The Mt. Hebron boys' soccer team won back-to-back 2A state championships in 1999 and 2000, and the 3A championship in 2006.[4]:52,53

The boys' cross country team won the Class C Maryland State Championship in 1969 and the 2A championship in 2008.[4]:12

The volleyball team won the 2A state championship three years running (1990, 1991, and 1992) and the 3A championship in 1995.[4]:55

Between 1992 and 2007 the girls' lacrosse team won the state championship every year except 1996, winning 2A in 1992 and 1993; 4A in 1994, 1995, and 1997; 2A in 1998 and 1999; and 3A in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007.[5]:10,11 The boys' team won the 2A championship in 1991 and 1999 and the 3A championship in 2002 and 2006.[5]:14

The boys' track and field team won the 3A state championship in 2013.[5]:54

The girls' basketball team won the C state championship in 1980; the B championship in 1986, 1987, and 1988; and the 2A championship in 1990, 1991, and 2008.[6]:5 The boys' team won the B championship in 1984.[6]:12

The lancer drill/dance team won the Division 1 Maryland state champions in the high kick division at the MAPDA competition in 2009. The dance team has also received first place in the National Music Festival competition with superior ratings every year since 2005. In 2012, the lancer drill/dance team won the state championship MAPDA Competition in Division 1 Short Pom, High Kick and Total Package categories.

The wrestling, led by a strong senior class, placed first in the 3A Regional Duals and placed second in the state in 2018.[7]

The Swim Club has placed first at every county swim meet since 2013.

Academics

Mt. Hebron's National Economics Challenge team won the Maryland state championship in 2010, 2011, 2014, 2017, 2019. The 2010 and 2011 teams went on to the national semi-final competition and the 2010 team competed in the national finals in Manhattan. The 2018-19 team went on to win at Nationals later that year.

Mt. Hebron's local FBLA Chapter became the region 5 champion in Maryland, and had a member place 4th nationally for the economics test. Most recently they won the region 5 and state championship.

The Hebron It's Academic Team placed in the Maryland State Finals for the first time in its history.[8]

Students
Student population[9]
20081,418
20071,427
20061,450
20051,612
20041,574
20031,553
20021,595
20011,483
20001,346
19991,266
19981,214
19971,246
19961,291
19951,290
19941,268
19931,228

Notable alumni

Racism incident and protest

In February 2016, a student attending the school published a racist video to the internet, in which he ranted against the Black Lives Matter movement, saying "who the (expletive) cares about some black man who dies? They're an inferior race, OK?" He also claimed that Abraham Lincoln was "a traitor to the white race."[10] In response to this, about 150 students staged a protest to show their opposition to the racist attitudes expressed in the video.[11]

References
  1. America's Best High Schools, Newsweek
  2. "Mt. Hebron High School Profile" (PDF). Howard County Public School System. 2012–13. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
  3. Howard County Historical Society. Howard County. p. 84.
  4. "2015 MPSSAA Fall Record Book" (PDF). Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
  5. "2016 MPSSAA Spring Record Book" (PDF). Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
  6. "2015–16 MPSSAA Winter Record Book" (PDF). Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
  7. . Baltimore Sun. 2018 https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/howard/sports/ph-hs-wrestling-state-duals-20180210-story.html. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. "It's Academic".
  9. Maryland State Department of Education
  10. Lettis, George (3 February 2016). "Howard County students stage walkout over racist video". WBAL-TV. Hearst Stations Inc. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
  11. St. George, Donna (2 February 2016). "Md. students walk out after viral video slams Black Lives Matter movement". The Washington Post. Retrieved 4 February 2016.

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