Eleanor Roosevelt High School - Greenbelt, MD
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N 38° 59.674 W 076° 52.256
18S E 337974 N 4317839
A high school in Greenbelt.
Waymark Code: WMXD7G
Location: Maryland, United States
Date Posted: 12/29/2017
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Taken from Wikipedia, "Eleanor Roosevelt High School (ERHS), is a Maryland public magnet high school specializing in science, mathematics, technology, and engineering. The school was established in 1976 at its current location in Greenbelt, Maryland and is part of the Prince George's County Public Schools system. It was the first high school named for former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
Eleanor Roosevelt was the county's first academic specialized high school for science and technology from its founding until 1982. The program has since expanded to two other centers, located at Charles Herbert Flowers High School, which serves the central region, and Oxon Hill High School, which serves the southern region. Roosevelt serves the northern region of the county. Each school is a four-year comprehensive high school with the Science and Technology Center serving as an alternative/specialized program. The Science and Tech program is not officially considered a "true" magnet program, as its purpose wasn't intended to serve in the way that a traditional magnet does. The program is the only one within the system for which admission is through competitive examination only.
Roosevelt has an enrollment of 2,764 students (as of the 2008–2009 school year) in grades 9 through 12. Roosevelt reached an all-time enrollment high of approximately 3,200 students around the start of the 21st century due to its popular magnet program and Prince George's County's significant population increase. The enrollment has dropped slightly due to school boundary realignment throughout the county and the opening of the Flowers High School center.
Roosevelt has received numerous awards throughout its 36-year history including being twice awarded National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence; a New American High School; a National School of Character; and receiving the Siemens Awards for Advanced Placement. Roosevelt was named #382 on America's Top 1,500 Public High Schools list for 2009, by Newsweek Magazine[1] and was also recognized as a Silver Medal School by U.S. News & World Report, in 2008.[2]
Several prominent figures have attended Eleanor Roosevelt, including Sergey Brin, one of the two founders of Google, R&B singers Mýa and Kenny Lattimore, as well as television personalities Jelani Blake, Jaeda Reames and Martin Lawrence; including numerous sports personalities in American basketball and football."
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