Crossland High School

Crossland High School
Location
6901 Temple Hills Road Temple Hills, Maryland United States
Information
Type	Public
School district	Prince George's County Public Schools
Principal	Charles Thomas
Faculty	97.0 (on FTE basis)^[1]
Grades	9–12
Enrollment	2,017^[1] (2005-06)
Student to teacher ratio	20.8^[1]
Color(s)	Red, Gold, Black and White
Mascot	Cavaliers
Website	www.pgcps.org/~crossld

Crossland High School is a public secondary school located in Temple Hills, Maryland. The school serves about 2,000 students in grades 9 to 12 in the Prince George's County Public Schools system. Crossland is named after a prominent early Maryland family. The vocational wing was dedicated by President Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1967.

In popular culture

The high school in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series is called Crossland High School.

Notable alumni

Mark Davis, Dallas radio talk show host and newspaper columnist, class of 1975
Durrell "Tank" Babbs, R&B singer^[2]
Israel Bell, gospel singer
Julian Peterson, NFL football player^[3]
Walt "The Wizard" Williams, NBA basketball player^[4]
Stephen Tyrone Johns, Security officer who died in the line of duty in the 2009 Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting.
Peter Bergman, Daytime television actor, currently Jack on CBS' The Young and the Restless. Crossland Class of 1971
Pierre Edwards, Actor, comedian. Crossland Class of 1985.
Jess Atkinson, place kicker, Washington Redskins.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Crossland High". National Center for Education Statistics. http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&SchoolID=240051001017&ID=240051001017. Retrieved 2008-01-20.
^ Julian Rubinstein (1993-09-19). "Cariaga Leads Largo to Flawless Start". The Washington Post.
^ "SEAHAWKS 35 REDSKINS 14". The Washington Post: pp. D07. 2008-01-06. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/05/AR2008010503062.html. Retrieved 2008-01-20.
^ Josh Barr (2005-03-10). "For Crossland, a Victory Worth Savoring". The Washington Post: pp. PG25. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20660-2005Mar9.html. Retrieved 2008-01-20.

"About Us". Crossland High School. Archived from the original on 2008-01-07. http://web.archive.org/web/20080107011955/http://www.pgcps.org/~crossld/about.html. Retrieved 2008-01-20.

Prince George's County Public Schools

District Offices	14201 School Lane, Upper Marlboro, MD 20772

High Schools	Bladensburg • Bowie • Central • Crossland • Frederick Douglass • DuVal • Fairmont Heights • Charles Herbert Flowers • Forestville • Friendly • Gwynn Park • High Point • Largo • Laurel • Northwestern • Oxon Hill • Parkdale • Potomac • Eleanor Roosevelt • Suitland • Surrattsville • Dr. Henry A. Wise, Jr.

Middle Schools	Buck Lodge • Charles Carroll • Stephen Decatur • Drew-Freeman • Dwight D. Eisenhower • Isaac J. Gourdine • Greenbelt • Gwynn Park • Hyattsville • Thomas Johnson • Dr. Ernest Everett Just • Kenmoor • Kettering • Martin Luther King, Jr. • James Madison • Thurgood G. Marshall • Samuel Ogle • Nicholas Orem • Oxon Hill • Edgar Allan Poe • Benjamin Stoddert • Benjamin Tasker • Walker Mill • William Wirt

PreK-8 Dedicated Magnet Schools	Benjamin D. Foulois Creative and Performing Arts • Robert Goddard French Immersion • Robert Goddard Montessori • John Hanson French Immersion • John Hanson Montessori • Thomas G. Pullen Creative and Performing Arts

PreK-8 Elementary & Middle Schools	Beltsville Academy • Ferguson-Burroughs Academy • William W. Hall Academy • Andrew Jackson Academy • Samuel P. Massie Academy • Cora L. Rice ES / G. James Gholson MS

Elementary Schools	List of PGCPS Elementary Schools

Other	Magnet Programs & Centers