South River High School (Maryland)
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| South River High School | |
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| Location | |
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201 Central Avenue East , | |
| Coordinates | 38°55′18″N 76°33′34″W / 38.92166°N 76.55942°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public high school |
| Established | 1978 |
| School district | Anne Arundel County Public Schools |
| NCES School ID | 240006000055[1] |
| Principal | Stacey Smith[2] |
| Teaching staff | 100.60 FTE (2022-23)[1] |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Enrollment | 1,649 (2022-23)[1] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 16.39 (2022-23)[1] |
| Campus | Large suburb[1] |
| Colors | Columbia blue and silver |
| Mascot | Seahawk |
| Newspaper | The Current |
| Yearbook | Tides |
| Website | www |
South River High School is a public high school located in Edgewater, Maryland, United States, a suburb of the state capital, Annapolis. It lies directly next to Central Middle School. It was built in 1978 due to overcrowding at Arundel High School and Southern High School. It is the primary school for high school students from Edgewater, Mayo, Davidsonville, Riva, and a small portion of Harwood.
South River High School only has one feeder middle school, which is Central Middle School. Central Middle School has 4 feeder elementary schools: Central, Davidsonville, Edgewater, and Mayo.
The school received a Blue Ribbon in education for the 1997-1998 school year.[3] In 2013, Newsweek ranked South River as one of the top 30 high schools in Maryland, and one of the top 1,000 in the country.[4]
STEM magnet program
South River features the STEM magnet program (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). It was introduced in the fall of 2009, and students from other Anne Arundel County public high school districts can apply to the magnet program and attend South River if they get accepted by means of a lottery system and are assigned to a middle school that is included in South River’s STEM feeder system. South River is one of two high schools in Anne Arundel County featuring the STEM program, the other being North County High School in Glen Burnie.
Athletics
South River competes in the Anne Arundel County Division of Maryland's 3A subdivision as of the 2023/2024 School Year.
South River has won many state championships, most recently in 2023 for soccer.[5]
The field hockey team has won state championships in 2001, 2004, 2016 and 2017.[6]
The baseball team won a state championship in 2013,[7] their first state championship ever and only their third regional championship.
The football team won a county championship in the 2019-2020 season, going undefeated in the regular season. The Seahawks last appeared in the playoffs in 2019 losing in the 2nd round to their rival, the Arundel Wildcats.
The wrestling team won their first regional championship in 2017 and then in 2022 and 2023.[8] In 2024, they lost the state final to Liganore High School.
The men's lacrosse team took its first state championship in 2009 winning 11-6 over Urbana High School after a regular season record of 17-1. The team continued its success with two more state championships in 2012 and 2014.[9]
