Meade Senior High School

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Not to be confused with Mead Senior High School.
Meade Senior High School
File:Meade Senior High 1995.jpg
"Catch the Mustang Spirit"
Address
1100 Clark Road
Fort Meade, MD 20755
USA
Information
Type Public
Established 1977
School district Anne Arundel County
Principal John Yore
Grades 9th – 12th
Number of students 2,070 (September 2014)[1]
Hours in school day 7:17am – 2:05pm
Campus type Military base
Color(s) Black, Gold, and Silver
Mascot Mustang
Rival Old Mill High School Patriots
Website meadeseniorhigh.org

Meade Senior High School is a public secondary school for grades 9 through 12 located at Fort Meade, Maryland and is administered by Anne Arundel County Public Schools. Since its opening in 1977, Meade High School has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools. The building underwent a complete renovation in 2008.

Academics

Meade High School is one of three International Baccalaureate (IB) Schools in Anne Arundel County. The IB program prepares students aged 16–19 for success in a university and life beyond.

Regular course curriculum departments include: Art, Army JROTC, Business Education, English, Family & Consumer Sciences, Foreign Language (Spanish, French, Chinese, Arabic, American Sign Language), Mathematics, Music, Physical & Health Education, Science, Social Sciences, Special Education, and Technology Education. Meade is also an IB World School, along with two other schools in the county, Old Mill and Annapolis.

Advanced Placement courses

Meade High School offers a variety of Advanced Placement (AP) courses, which allows students an opportunity to receive college credit by exam, including:

  • AP Art History
  • AP English Language
  • AP English Literature
  • AP Calculus AB
  • AP Calculus BC
  • AP Computer Science A
  • AP Biology
  • AP Chemistry
  • AP Physics B
  • AP Psychology
  • AP US Government & Politics[2]
  • AP Studio Art 2D Design
  • AP Studio Art 3D Design
  • AP Studio Art Drawing
  • AP Statistics
  • AP Environmental Science
  • AP European History
  • AP US History
  • AP World History
  • AP French Language
  • AP Spanish Language
  • AP Microeconomics
  • AP Macroeconomics[citation needed]

Extracurricular activities

Meade's rival in extracurricular activities is Old Mill High School.[3][4]

Clubs and traditions

Clubs and activities at Meade include: Math Club, Computer Club, Key Club, Newspaper/Journalism, Literary Magazine, Yearbook, Student Government, Marching Band, Drama,[2] It's Academic, National Honor Society, National Art Honor Society, Tri-M, FBLA, Step Squad, Drill Team, Dance Club, Multicultural Team, DECA, Jazz Band, String Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra, Thespian Society, and Colorguard.[citation needed]

Athletics

The Meade Mustangs participate in a variety of sports, including:

Fall

Winter

Spring

Awards and recognition

Most notably the girl's and boy's track teams have won county and region championships since 2006. The outdoor boys track team won their first State championship in 2007. Meade Senior High has made AYP for four years in a row, which has been a major accomplishment. The 2011–2012 Meade wrestling team also won their first ever county championship[6] that year while holding the best record out of any Meade sports team that year at 19–3. Also, the swim team progressed to regional competition in 2006.[citation needed] The M4 (Mighty Meade Mustang Marching) Band also went to ACC's (Atlantic Coastal Championships) for the first time in the history of the school in 2005,[citation needed] and returned in the fall of 2009[7] and 2010.[citation needed] The 2015 Men's Basketball team won the 4A State Champion title.[8]

Notable alumni or attendees

  • Haddaway, singer, hit song: "What Is Love"[9]
  • Marina Harrison, first woman to represent Maryland at both Miss USA and Miss America[10]
  • Connie Isler, youngest head coach at Division I level, women's golf at Georgetown University[11]
  • Elijah Thurmon, National Football League wide receiver Philadelphia Eagles, Oakland Raiders[12]

Westboro Baptist Church protest

In April 2011, the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas protested against Meade High School, claiming that the school had a high number of homosexual students. When the group revisited the county in March 2012, it was brought to the attention of many Anne Arundel County residents, and a crowd of about 500 people showed up and protested against the Westboro Baptist Church. Meade is one of three high schools in Maryland to be protested by the Westboro Baptist Church, the other two being Glen Burnie High School, also in Anne Arundel County, and Walt Whitman High School of Montgomery County.[13][self-published source][better source needed][14][15]

Past problems

Meade Senior High School's reputation among Anne Arundel County schools was poor as of 2007, with some parents and students in disagreement.[16][17] This negative reputation stems from events in 2005, when former Principal Joan Valentine was accused of blocking efforts to investigate the beating of a single white student by ten to fifteen black students in January of that year.[18][19]

Near the end of the 2006–2007 year, during the final day of exams, around twenty students became involved in a physical altercation which resulted in the involvement of police forces from multiple jurisdictions and minor injuries to policemen. A group of parents lodged complaints against the police for roughing up their children.[20]

On September 30, 1994, a brawl started that injured three teachers and six students. Media specialist and Senior Class advisor, Don Gobbi, attempted to break up the fight and was punched and thrown to the floor. As he lay in the fetal position students began to kick him. Gobbi was flown by Maryland State Helicopter to Maryland Medical Center shock trauma. Teacher John O'Neill also attempted to break up the fight and was taken to North Arundel Hospital with minor injuries. The third teacher was not hospitalized. Gobbi was released from the hospital later that day and never returned to his position at the school.[21][22]

References

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