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39°25′32″N 76°59′30″W / 39.42556°N 76.99167°W / 39.42556; -76.99167
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Century High School
Address
355 Ronsdale Road

Eldersburg, Maryland
,
Maryland
21784

United States
Coordinates 39°25′32″N 76°59′30″W / 39.42556°N 76.99167°W / 39.42556; -76.99167
Information
Type Public Secondary
Established2001
School district Carroll County Public Schools
CategoryPublic School
NCES School ID 240021001161 [1]
PrincipalBrian Booz
Grades9–12
Enrollment1,132 [1]
Campus67.8 acres (274,000 m2) [2]
Color(s)Emerald green, gold, black and white        
MascotKnights
National rankingNational Blue Ribbon School [3]
Website chs.carrollk12.org

Century High School Sign
Century High School

Century High School is located in Eldersburg, Maryland, United States, within the Carroll County Public School District. The school was built in 2000–2001 on 65 acres of land and cost $21.2 million to complete. The building is 204,161 square feet in size. [2]

The school's colors are emerald green, gold, black, and white, and the mascot is a knight, chosen by the original principal, Dave Booz.

History

With the rapid growth of southern Carroll County, a new high school was required to alleviate overcrowding at the nearby Liberty High School and South Carroll High School. It was named Century High School because it was founded at the turn of the 21st century.[ citation needed]

Academic Team

Century High School currently[ when?] has an academic team and regularly participates in the local TV show, It's Academic.

Drama

The drama club at Century High School performed Beauty and the Beast as their 2007 musical, the first school in the county to do so. In the past, they have done The Sound of Music, Guys and Dolls, The Diary of Anne Frank, Annie, The Mouse That Roared, Winnie the Pooh, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Romeo and Juliet, It's A Wonderful Life, Cinderella, Little Women, Treasure Island, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, Newsies, and White Christmas. In 2016, Century placed 2nd in the state at the International Thespian Society's Maryland State Festival with their performance of The Miracle Worker. CHS was the first school in Carroll County to have an outdoor theater for the school's Rude Mechanicals to perform on. The Rude Mechanicals is an acting troupe, named after the clowns in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. They perform Shakespeare skits both at Century and throughout the community.

Athletics

State championships

  • 2021 - Girls Lacrosse
  • 2022 - Girls Soccer

References

  1. ^ a b "Search for Public Schools - Century High (240021001161)". National Center for Education Statistics. Institute of Education Sciences. Retrieved October 30, 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Maryland Property Database". Archived from the original on 2011-05-24. Retrieved 2007-12-12.
  3. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-10-27. Retrieved 2016-10-26.{{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title ( link)
  4. ^ MPSSAA Girls Soccer Archived March 8, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Century High website Archived September 19, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ https://www.mpssaa.org/assets/1/6/Fall_record_book_Record_Book.pdf [ bare URL PDF]

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