Long Reach High School

Long Reach High School
Address
6101 Old Dobbin Lane
Columbia, Maryland 21045
United States
Coordinates 39°12′22″N 76°48′40″W / 39.206073°N 76.811237°W / 39.206073; -76.811237Coordinates: 39°12′22″N 76°48′40″W / 39.206073°N 76.811237°W / 39.206073; -76.811237
Information
Type Public high school
Established 1996
Principal Joshua Wasilewski
Enrollment 1330 (2013)
Color(s)

Purple     Silver    

White     Black    
Mascot The Lightning
Website lrhs.hcpss.org
[1]

Northwest side of school building

Long Reach High School is a public high school located in Columbia, Maryland. It is part of the Howard County Public School System. In 2013, Newsweek ranked Long Reach as one of the top 2,000 high schools in the country.[2]

History

In 1995, Long Reach High School, was built in Columbia, Maryland. The school was one of three new county schools opened in 1996 after a 16-year gap.[3] Long Reach High School name is derived from Colonel Edward Dorsey's 1695 slave plantation "Long Reach", which is now the site of a village of Columbia.[4][5] The school was built on the front field of the Christian Farm, bought from Lewis Dennis.[6]

Demographics

As of 2013, the demographic breakdown of the school's 1330 students was as follows:[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Demographics : Howard County - Long Reach High : 2013 Maryland Report Card
  2. ↑ http://www.newsweek.com/2013/05/06/america-s-best-high-schools.html
  3. ↑ Howard Libit (August 27, 1996). "Education: It's a blank slate for students, teachers and even the building at Long Reach High in Columbia, where every achievement will be a first.THE MYSTIQUE OF A NEW SCHOOL". The Baltimore Sun.
  4. ↑ "HO-87 Bethesda" (PDF). Retrieved 14 January 2014.
  5. ↑ Joshua Dorsey Warfield (1905). The founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland. Baltimore: Kohn & Pollock. pp. 58,397. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
  6. ↑ Howard's Roads to the Past. Howard County Sesquicentennial Celebration Committee, 2001. 2001. p. 8.
  7. ↑ Demographics : Howard County - Long Reach High : 2013 Maryland Report Card


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