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Great Mills High School

21130 Great Mills Rd, Great Mills, MD, 20634 -

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Definition of Terms

Great Mills High School

School Level

Middle school

Grades Offered

Grades

County

St. Mary's County, MD

Students & Faculty

Total Students

1589 students

% Male / % Female

51% / 49%

Total Classroom Teachers

90 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 9 - 527 students

Grade 10 - 398 students

Grade 11 - 331 students

Grade 12 - 333 students

This School

( MD ) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:18

1:16

Students by Ethnicity

This School

( MD ) School Average

% American Indian	6%	n/a
% Asian	4%	5%
% Hispanic	3%	8%
% Black	38%	40%
% White	55%	46%

Additional Student Information

This School

( MD ) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

n/a

23%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

n/a

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

n/a

( MD ) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

St. Marys County Public s School District

This School's Agency

( MD ) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	26	27
Number of Students Managed	20,151 students	16,524 students
District Total Revenue	$171,909,000	$159,214,000
District Expenditure	$168,429,000	$153,923,000
District Revenue / Student	$8,531	$9,539
District Expenditure / Student	$8,358	$9,315

Great Mills High School is a comprehensive public high school.
It serves the community in the southern end of St. Mary's County, Maryland, at the confluence of the Potomac River, Patuxent River, and Chesapeake Bay. The area is a mixture of rural and suburban communities. Many of the families are employed by NAS Patuxent River, government contractors, St. Mary's College of Maryland, and others involved in the traditional agriculture and water related businesses. The ethnic population of the school reflects the community: 63% Caucasian, 31% African American, 1.3% Hispanic, 4.7% Other.
Great Mills High School is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools and the Maryland State Department of Education. Great Mills High School belongs to the St. Mary's County Public Schools system, and is associated with two other county high schools: Leonardtown High School and Chopticon High School.
Great Mills High School was founded in 1929, as one of the original high schools in St. Mary's County, Maryland. It has since expanded from a school house to a school building rolling on several acres, with a football, soccer, and field hockey field, and tied to a county pool next door. Great Mills High School is among the oldest continually operating school in St. Mary's County and the State of Maryland.
Great Mills High School Athletics belong to the Southern Maryland Athletic Conference, and competes in Division 3A in the state competitions.
At Great Mills High School, student-athletes are known as the Hornets and that mascot, according to Julius A. Levay, comes from a terse relationship he had with one of his students.
In the early 1950s, Levay, known to his friends as Hank, was teaching biology at Great Mills High School.
‘‘In my biology class was a young man whose name was John Hudson,” 81-year-old Levay said from his vacation home in Bradenton, Fla. ‘‘Now he tried to be an athlete and I guess I was rather strict with him so he nicknamed me ‘Hank the Hornet’.”
In 1954, Great Mills constructed a new gymnasium and according to Levay, Hudson was part of a group responsible for deciding on what to put on the gym floor.
‘‘Hudson led the team in the painting of a hornet in the middle of the basketball court,” Levay said, ‘‘and he called it ‘Hank the Hornet.’ I guess that name just stuck.”
(From Ian Blyth, Washington Post, 21 April 2006 Ian Blyth Article.)
The motto of Great Mills High School is "Forward Ever, Backwards Never."
Notable alumni: Tubby Smith 1969 - Head Coach of University of Kentucky's Men's Basketball team.
Roy Dyson 1966 - Maryland State Senator representing Maryland District 29: Calvert, Charles, and St. Mary's County.
Clifford Dukes 2000 - St. Louis Rams Defensive Linesman.
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About This Zip Code (20634)

School Zip (20634)

(MD) State Average

Population (Approximate)

5,129 people

5,071,990 people

% (age 25+) w/College Degree

34%

32%

Population Average Age

32 years old

36.0 years old

Average Household size

2.8 persons

2.5 persons

Median Household Income

$59,658

$52,064

Avg. # of Rooms in Household

6 rooms

6.0 rooms

Median Age of Housing Structure

17 years old

42 years old

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% Owning / % Renting

72% / 28%

65% / 35%

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Nearby Schools:


1. Esperanza Middle School - 880 students - view location
2. Spring Ridge Middle School - 854 students - view location
3. Leonardtown High School - 1915 students - view location
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