Kenwood High School is a Baltimore County

Baltimore County, Maryland

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 public high school located in Essex

Essex, Maryland

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Maryland

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About the School

Kenwood has been educating students since 1931. The school was originally housed at 6700 Kenwood Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21237, which is now Golden Ring Middle School http://goldenringms.bcps.org/. The school was relocated to a larger building at 501 Stemmers Run Road, which is less than a mile away from Eastern Technical High School

Eastern Technical High School

Eastern Technical High School is a 1997, 2009, and 2010 Maryland Blue Ribbon High School a 2010 National Blue Ribbon High School, and a 1999 USDE New American High School located in Essex, Baltimore County, Maryland. Along with their regular classes, students enrolled at this magnet school...

. The school houses approximately 1800 students, pulling from all across the county thanks to two magnet programs (International Baccalaureate, Sports Science Academy). The school borders the school districts of Overlea High School

Overlea High School

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, Perry Hall High School

Perry Hall High School

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, Chesapeake High School

Chesapeake High School

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, and Dundalk High School

Dundalk High School

Dundalk High School is a four-year public high school in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. The school was opened in 1959.-About the School:...

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Magnet Programs

While the school provides a standard diploma to graduates, there are also "Magnet programs," which are, "theme-oriented courses of study that provide students with in-depth experiences in a specialized area of interest." Kenwood features two "magnets": International Baccalaureate and Sports Science Academy.

The "IB" program is recognized in more than 100 countries, welcoming students to a world of academic leadership and international opportunities. The courses offered in this program are competitive and challenging and encourage creative and critical thinking skills. The IB Program is unique in that it prepares students to take exit exams their senior year to earn college credit.

"SSA" provides students with the opportunity to pursue an interdiscplinary curriculum that investigates careers in the sports, health, and fitness fields, including Sports Medicine, Sports Education, Sports Business and Sports Communications.

The school is also backwards with the front of the school facing the schoolyard.

Students

As of 2007, the school had over 1800 students. The enrollment then was 71% European-American, 24% African-American, 2.5% Hispanic, and about 2.5% Asian/Pacific Islander and Native American. Over 13% of the students receive special education, a high mark. Additionally, almost 36% of the students receive free or reduced meals, also considered very high. Results from the 2006 High School Assessment (HSA) are mixed. Only 39.9% of the students passed the Algebra portion of the test, while 68% passed Biology, 65.6% passed Government, and 50.7% passed English.

{|{| class="wikitable"
|*2008 ||1,786
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|*2007 ||1,849
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|*2006 ||1,854
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|*2005 ||1,865
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|*2004 ||1,841
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|*2003 ||1,781
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|*2002 ||1,759
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|*2001 ||1,649
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|*2000 ||1,572
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|*1999 ||1,569
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|*1998 ||1,469
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|*1997 ||1,426
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|*1996 ||1,340
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|*1995 ||1,309
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|*1994 ||1,290
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|*1993 ||1,193
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Athletics

The school is known for repeated success in wrestling, baseball, track and field, and competitive cheerleading (County and Regional Champions).

The school has several state championships:

• 1956 - Boys Cross Country
• 1958 - Boys Cross Country
• 1962 - Boys Cross Country
• 1964 - Boys Track and Field
• 1967 - Boys Cross Country
• 1975 - Football
• 1978 - Baseball
• 2003 - Boy's soccer
• 2003 - Coach Derek Woodward named Girl's Soccer Coach of the Year by the Baltimore Sun.

Alumni

• Donald B. Elliott
  Donald B. Elliott
  Donald B. Elliott is a registered pharmacist and American politician of the Republican Party in the State of Maryland, currently serving his 6th term as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates. He serves as the representative of Maryland legislative district 4B, which encompasses Carroll and...
  
  , member, Maryland House of Delegates
• Thomas David Jones
  Thomas David Jones
  Thomas David Jones is a former United States astronaut. He was selected to the astronaut corps in 1990 and completed four space shuttle flights before retiring in 2001. He flew on STS-59 and STS-68 in 1994, STS-80 in 1996 and STS-98 in 2001. His total mission time was 53 days 48 minutes...
  
  , (1973), astronaut
• Mike Preston, sports columnist with the Baltimore Sun
• Dennis F. Rasmussen
  Dennis F. Rasmussen
  Dennis F. Rasmussen is a Maryland politician, who ran as a Democrat in the 2006 Maryland U.S. Senate election. He lost the nomination to Ben Cardin, after receiving 2% of the votes...
  
  , (1965), former Baltimore County Executive, Maryland State Senator.
• Michael H. Weir, Jr.
  Michael H. Weir, Jr.
  Michael H. Weir, Jr. is an American politician from Maryland and a member of the Democratic Party.-Background:Weir was born in Essex, Maryland on September 2, 1948. He attended the University of Maryland and University of Baltimore. He has been a firefighter with the Baltimore County Fire...
  
  , member of Maryland House of Delegates
  Maryland House of Delegates
  The Maryland House of Delegates is the lower house of the General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland, and is composed of 141 Delegates elected from 47 districts. The House chamber is located in the state capitol building on State Circle in Annapolis...
  
  
• Kyle Jaski, current Punter/Kicker at Lincoln University (PA)
• Pete Vasilarakis, current lineman for the Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut

External links

• http://www.edline.net/pages/kenwoodhs School Website