La Plata High School

School in La Plata, Maryland, United States

38°32′46.1″N 76°57′1.4″W / 38.546139°N 76.950389°W / 38.546139; -76.950389InformationEstablished1927PrincipalDouglass Dolan^[1]Staff72.00 (FTE)^[2]Grades9-12Enrollment1,108 (2017-18)^[2]Student to teacher ratio15.39^[2]Color(s)Navy Blue and White ██Athletics conferenceSouthern Maryland Athletic ConferenceMascotWarrior^[3]Feeder SchoolsPiccowaxen, SomersWebsitehttps://www.ccboe.com/schools/laplata/

La Plata High School is part of the Charles County Public Schools and is located in La Plata, Maryland, United States. The current school was built in 1979. Before that, it was in the building (built in 1964) which now holds Milton M. Somers Middle School.^[4]^[5]

History

On November 9, 1926, the La Plata Elementary School was destroyed by a tornado that killed 13 students.^[6]^[7] That two room building was replaced by a new school that housed both an elementary and high school for La Plata.^[8]

Demographics

As of 2010, La Plata High School has an enrollment of 1,396 students with a demographic profile of 73.6% White, 22.6% Black, 1.7% Asian or Pacific Islander 1.5% Hispanic, and 0.7% American Indian. The Schoolwide Reading Proficiency is 85.8%, while the Schoolwide Math Proficiency is 91.9%.^[9]

Notable alumni

Matt Dyson, American football coach and a former player
William Daniel Mayer, former member of Maryland House of Delegates
Don Money, baseball player
Paul Thomas, Joel Madden and Benji Madden are members of the band Good Charlotte.
Daryl Thompson, baseball player
Zuberi Williams, judge
Allyn Rose, Miss Maryland USA 2011

References

^ "Administrative Team". Retrieved 17 June 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c "La Plata High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved March 24, 2020.
^ School Information Archived 2008-01-29 at the Wayback Machine
^ Partlow, Joshua (January 20, 2005). "Anticipating Growth, Charles Weighs New Government Building". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2007-12-24.
In turn, Milton Somers was housed until 1964 in the Government Building, on Baltimore Street.
^ Kathryn Cochrane Newcomb (1981). "What's In a Name?". Charles County Board of Education. Retrieved November 19, 2021.
^ Thomas R. Brooks (November 1926). "The Tornado in Southern Maryland, November 3, 1926". Monthly Weather Review. 54, 11 (11). American Meteorological Society: 462. Bibcode:1926MWRv...54..462B. doi:10.1175/1520-0493(1926)54<462:TTISMN>2.0.CO;2.
^ "La Plata Elementary School". The Historical Marker Database. February 3, 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-18.
^ Zilliox, Jacqueline (2007). Charles County. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-4407-6.
^ "La Plata High School". School Matters. Retrieved 2007-12-18.