| Severn School | |
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| Location | |
| 201 Water Street Severna Park, Maryland United States |
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| Information | |
| Faculty | 72 |
| Enrollment | 601 |
| Student to teacher ratio | 10:1 |
| Campus type | Suburban |
| Color(s) | Maroon and white |
| Athletics | 45 athletic teams |
| Mascot | The Admirals |
| Website | www.severnschool.com |
Severn School was founded in 1914 by Rolland M. Teel[1] in Severna Park, Maryland, as a preparatory school for the United States Naval Academy. Today, Severn is a day school enrolling boys and girls in grades 6 through 12. Severn is the oldest private school in Anne Arundel County.
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The Severn Admirals compete in thirteen varsity sports: sailing, lacrosse, cross country running, football, soccer, basketball, swimming, baseball, golf, tennis, field hockey, and track and field in the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association. Severn has 35 varsity, junior varsity, and middle school teams.
The Severn sailing team won the 2007 Singlehanded Nationals, has been on the podium for the three last Double Handed Nationals, and placed seconnd in the Team Racing Nationals in 2005. For the 2007–2008 school year, the Varsity Tennis team went undefeated and won the conference championships. The female section of the co-ed cross country team won championships during the 2008–2009 season.[2]
Severn has received praise for their nationally acclaimed sailing team, which held the title of the number one high school sailing team in the nation in 2008, coached that year by Thomas Sitzmann and now by Scott Steele (1984 Olympic Silver Medalist in Sailboarding [3]). The chess team is also nationally recognized and is coached by David Shin. Severn's mock trial team won the championship in April 2007.[4]
Each year, there are three main theatrical shows at Severn: a drama in the fall, a musical in the winter, and a night of student-directed one-act plays in the spring. Various art classes are offered at Severn, including ceramics, sculpture, drawing, painting, design principles, digital video and photography.
There are three academic buildings at Severn, as well as the McCleary Student Center, Price Auditorium, Bauer Dining Hall, Powell Conference Room, ninth grade lockers and a few middle school classrooms.
Teel Academic Center is currently the oldest academic building at Severn, mainly used as a middle school building the library, and many middle school classrooms, as well as the Upper School Language and History Departments.
Severn School has also finished the process of constructing the Edward St. John Athletic Center. The facility, opened April 2008, cost about $10 million. The school also recently completed its construction of two turf fields; one for field hockey and lacrosse, and one for football and soccer.[5]
Distinguished alumni include four-time Navy Cross recipient and College Football Hall of Fame member Slade Cutter ('30),[6] business management guru Tom Peters ('60), Academy Award-winning cinematographer Joseph Caleb Deschanel ('62), and United States Merchant Marine Academy superintendent Joseph D. Stewart ('60). Astronaut Buzz Aldrin attended in preparation for taking the United States Military Academy entrance examinations.[7] Current Baltimore Ravens owner, Steve Bisciotti, attended Severn for two years in the 1970s. Actor Robert Duvall also attended Severn School. Two WWII Medal of Honor recipients were also distinguished alumni: RADM Herbert E. Schonland (’20) and RADM Bruce McCandless (’28). Both of Admiral McCandless' sons attended: Bruce McCandless II, who attended for several years, and Douglas McCandless, who graduated in 1969.
NFL coach Paul Brown was head football coach at Severn football from 1930 to 1931.