Old Mill High School


Old Mill High School is an American public high school in Millersville, Maryland, United States serving students in grades 9 through 12. It was occupied in 1975 and is administered by Anne Arundel County Public Schools. The school was built to alleviate over-crowding at Arundel and Severna Park High Schools. The school has no walls and no roofs in some classrooms, only partitions to separate their classrooms. Along with Annapolis High School and Meade Senior High School, Old Mill Senior High is one of the three IB World Schools in Anne Arundel County. The school building also houses the high school's two feeder schools, Old Mill Middle School North and Old Mill Middle School South. The school mascot is the patriot.

Academics

Old Mill High School is a public, magnet school located in Millersville, MD. It has 2,105 students in grades 9-12 with a student-teacher ratio of 16 to 1. According to state test scores, 92% of students are at least proficient in math and 91% in reading.
Since 1977, Old Mill has been accredited by the Commission on Secondary Schools of the Middle States Association. Newsweek Magazine also ranked Old Mill in their 2007 Top 1300 Public High Schools in the Country List, at #773.
Old Mill High School ranks 106th out of 170 schools in Maryland on School Digger.

International Baccalaureate (IB)

Old Mill High School has been an IB World School since April 2005. It offers the IB Diploma Programme, preceded by the Extended Learning Program, or more commonly known as Pre-IB. The school offers a variety of standard level and higher level courses. The IB program is coordinated in Old Mill by Mrs. Sutherin and Mrs. Romanoski, and Ms. Klimes is the guidance counselor for all the IB students.
Old Mill High School is currently an IB Middle Years Programme candidate school, with the intention being that Old Mill will be 'whole-school' International Baccalaureate eventually. This is in conjunction with the two other IB World Schools currently in place in Anne Arundel County, Annapolis High School and Meade High School.

Other Programs

Students at Old Mill Senior High School are encouraged to participate in extracurricular, community, social and professional development organizations including:
The Old Mill Patriots participate in a variety of interscholastic sports and activities, including:
In October 2007, Old Mill High School was listed as one of four high schools in Anne Arundel County that had outbreaks of staph infections. 28 cases of the infection have also been reported at Severna Park High School, Glen Burnie High School, and Chesapeake High School.