| Woodlawn High School | |
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| 1801 Woodlawn Dr Woodlawn Woodlawn, Maryland, 21207-4075 USA |
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| Motto | Witness the Change! and "Don't Talk About It Be About It!" |
| Established | 1948 |
| Opened | 1971 |
| School district | Baltimore County Public Schools |
| Principal | Brian A. Scriven |
| Faculty | Christy Moore-German Kenneth Pipkin Dwayne E. Williams Jewell Ralph |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Campus | Urban |
| Campus size | 55 acres (220,000 m2) |
| School Colour(s) | Black and Red
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| Mascot | Warriors |
| Website | WHS |
Woodlawn High School (WHS) is a four-year public high school in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. A high school was built in Woodlawn in 1922, but housed only 9th through 12th grade. The first 4-year high school was built in 1941. In 1948, a new school was constructed, and in 1958, another new building was constructed. This building still stands today.[1] The primary structure that is used now was built in 1971 and offers a magnet program focused around students that are interested in Engineering, Science, Technology, and Math, and over 40 various extracurriculars, sports, programs, and activities to incoming and current students.
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Woodlawn High School is one out of many Baltimore County Public Schools to offer the magnet program to its students. The Magnet Program by Project Lead The Way, provides a curriculum centered around Math, Science, and Pre-Engineering and allows students to engage in Honors, Gifted and Talented, and Advanced Placement Courses and state-of-the-Art classrooms. The school offers various electives,and extracurriculars for students to excel and prosper in during and after school hours, including a nationally known AVID Program, Honor Chorale, FBLA, Waweyoka Newspaper, and Robotics Team. Along with Woodlawn's Motto "Witness The Change", the school's alumni brought a new motto to the school to demonstrate Woodlawn Warrior Pride, called "Don't Talk About It, Be About It!".
Woodlawn High School sits on a little over 55 acres (220,000 m2) in western Baltimore County.[2] The main building, which was built in 1961, is roughly 195,000 square feet (18,100 m2) in size.[2] The school is located just east of the Baltimore Beltway and north of Maryland Route 122, Security Boulevard.
Woodlawn High School's district borders the districts of Pikesville High School, Randallstown High School, Milford Mill High School, and Catonsville High School in Baltimore County.[3]
The graduation rate at Woodlawn High School over the past 15 years peaked in 1999 at 98% and has slowly dropped to 89% in 2006.[4] However, the graduation rate of Woodlawn High currently is 90%. Woodlawn High School is one of the largest high schools in the Baltimore County Public School system. In 2008, the school was 61% African-American, 19% Hispanic and Native American, 11% Asian/Pacific Islander, 7% White, and 2% European-American.[5] Almost 13% of the students receive special education,[6] and over 42% of the students receive free or reduced lunches, one of the highest rates in the county.[7]
| 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 |
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| 1,553 | 1,527 | 1,492 | 1,368 | 1,403 | 1,526 | 1,651 | ,1686 | 1,780 | 1,827 | 1,896 | 1,983 | 2,028 | 1,990 | 1,937 | 1,877 |
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Woodlawn Robotics Team 768
Since 2002, Woodlawn High School has had a FIRST robotics team. In the past few years they have received much local and national notoriety for their robot success, community outreach and college attrition. In 2008 they received the Chairman's award, the highest award given to a team, at the Chesapeake regional event. They went on to the world championship in Atlanta where they received the prestigious Judges award for the same thing.An article featuring the team was published by the Baltimore County Public Schools. http://www.bcps.org/news/2007/1127/ featuring the fact that the team was invited to Washington DC to demonstrate their robot for congress annually. The team is known as the Technowarriors and is represented by team 768 within the FIRST Robotics organization.
One AVID senior (class graduate of 2010), Jerusa Marianne Miller of Woodlawn High School, is one of just 1,000 students nationwide this year, out of more than 20,000 applicants, to be awarded a Gates Millennium Scholarship, which provides assistance for recipients for their entire college careers.
State Champions
Finalist
Semi-Finalist
Accreditation: Accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools
-Accredited by the Maryland State Department of Education.