Carroll County Public Schools is a school district

School district

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 based in Westminster

Westminster, Maryland

Westminster is a city in northern Maryland, United States. It is the seat of Carroll County. The city's population was 18,590 at the 2010 census. Westminster is an outlying community within the Baltimore-Towson, MD MSA, which is part of a greater Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV...

, Maryland

Maryland

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CCPS is the ninth largest in the state of Maryland. More than 27,000 students are enrolled in the county's public schools.

The school system includes all of Carroll County, Maryland

Carroll County, Maryland

Carroll County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland. In 2010, its population was 167,134. It was named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton , signer of the American Declaration of Independence. Its county seat is Westminster....

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In testing, the schools typically score slightly above the state and national averages. For example, in the 2003-04 school year, Carroll County students scored 522 on the SAT

SAT

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 verbal section and 515 in math, compared to 515 verbal and 511 math statewide and 518 verbal and 508 math nationwide.http://ccpl.carr.org/ccps/instruction/researchaccount/powerpoints/sat.mht!sat_files/frame.htm

The schools are administered by a superintendent of schools

Superintendent (education)

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, Mr. Stephen H. Guthrie. Guthrie began his first four-year term in the position on July 1, 2010 and will serve as Superintendent through June 30, 2014. The Board of Education consists of five elected Board of Education members and one non-voting student member. As of 2010, the members are Barbara Shreeve, President, Jennifer Seidel Vice-President, Cynthia Foley, Gary Bauer, and Patricia Gadberry. The current student representative is Sampson Fowler.

High schools

• Century High School
  Century High School (Sykesville, Maryland)
  Century High School is located in Eldersburg, Maryland within the Carroll County Public School District. The school was built in 2000/2001 on of land and cost $30 million to complete. The building is in size....
  
  
• Francis Scott Key High School
  Francis Scott Key High School
  Francis Scott Key High School is a four-year public high school in Union Bridge in Carroll County, Maryland, United States. The school is located near the west-central section of Carroll County.-About the School:...
  
  
• Liberty High School
• North Carroll High School
  North Carroll High School
  North Carroll High is a high school located in Hampstead, Maryland, in Carroll County.North Carroll is located at 1400 Panther Drive. The school mascot is a panther, and the school colors are red, white, and black. The school is a part of the Carroll County Public Schools system...
  
  
• South Carroll High School
  South Carroll High School
  South Carroll High School is a four-year public high school in Sykesville in Carroll County, Maryland, United States. The school is located near the southwest corner of Carroll County on Liberty Road between Maryland Route 27 and Maryland Route 97....
  
  
• Westminster High School
• Winters Mill High School
  Winters Mill High School
  Winters Mill High School is the newest high school in Westminster, Maryland, United States, and it opened in August 2002.Winters Mill High School is in the Carroll County Public Schools system. It is an academy high school designed for a functional capacity of 1,200 students...
  
  
• Manchester Valley High School
  Manchester Valley High School
  Manchester Valley High School is a high school located in Manchester, Carroll County, Maryland on the eastern coast of the United States of America....
  
  

Middle schools

• East Middle School
• Mt. Airy Middle School
• New Windsor Middle School
• North Carroll Middle School
• Northwest Middle School
  Northwest Middle School
  Northwest Middle School , in Taneytown, Maryland, is part of the Carroll County Public Schools system based in Westminster, Maryland. Northwest Middle is home to approximately 526 sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students.-External Links:...
  
  
• Sykesville Middle School
• Shiloh Middle School
• Oklahoma Road Middle School
  Oklahoma Road Middle School
  Oklahoma Road Middle School is a public middle school in Carroll County, Maryland, United States. It is located on the southeast corner of the county, just north of MD 26 in Eldersburg, MD.-About the School:...
  
  
• West Middle School

Primary schools

• Carrolltowne Elementary School
• Cranberry Station Elementary School
• Charles Carroll Elementary School
• Ebb Valley Elementary School http://www.carrollk12.org/eve
• Eldersburg Elementary School
• Elmer A. Wolfe Elementary School
• Freedom Elementary School
• Friendship Valley Elementary School
• Hampstead Elementary School
• Linton Springs Elementary SchoolManchester Elementary School
• Mechanicsville Elementary School
• Mt. Airy Elementary School
• Parrs Ridge Elementary School
• Piney Ridge Elementary School
• Robert Moton Elementary School
• Runnymede Elementary School
• Saudi Arabian Elementary School
• Sandymount Elementary School
• Spring Garden Elementary School
• Taneytown Elementary School
• Westminster Elementary School
• William Winchester Elementary School
• Winfield Elementary School

The district also has two career and technology centers (Westminster, and South Carroll) and two alternative schools (Carroll Springs and Gateway).

External links

• Carroll County Public Schools