Mt. Hebron High School

Mt. Hebron opened in 1965 as a junior high school. When Patapsco Middle School opened nearby in 1969, Mt. Hebron was converted into a high school. Mt. Hebron was ranked 671st in Newsweek magazine's "America's Best High Schools" listing in 2006 and was ranked 598th in 2007. It has a 92.4% graduation rate and its latest renovations were completed in 2011. Mt. Hebron High School is named after the nearby 21,252 acre slave plantation and manor. Mt. Hebron is a stone home built by Col John Worthington Dorsey for his son Thomas Beale Dorsey in 1808. ==Geography==

Mt. Hebron High School is located in suburban Howard County, approximately 10 miles west of Baltimore in Ellicott City. It is at the intersection of St. Johns Lane and Route 99, Old Frederick Road, just west of U.S. 29 and north of I-70. ==Athletics==

On November 19, 2021 the Mt. Hebron Girls Soccer team won its first State Championship in program history against county rival River Hill 1-0 at Loyola University. Head Coach Tim Deppen went on to be voted All-Metro Coach of the Year by the Baltimore Sun. The Mt. Hebron boys' soccer team won back-to-back 2A state championships in 1999 and 2000, and the 3A championship in 2006. The volleyball team won the 2A state championship three years running (1990, 1991, and 1992) and the 3A championship in 1995. The boys' team won the 2A championship in 1991 and 1999 and the 3A championship in 2002 and 2006. The boys' team won the B championship in 1984. The Swim Club has placed first at every county swim meet since 2013. ==Academics==

Mt. Hebron's National Economics Challenge team won the Maryland state championship in 2010, 2011, 2014, 2017, 2019. The 2010 and 2011 teams went on to the national semi-final competition and the 2010 team competed in the national finals in Manhattan. The 2018-19 team went on to win at Nationals later that year. Mt. Hebron's local FBLA Chapter became the region 5 champion in Maryland, and had a member place 4th nationally for the economics test. Most recently they won the region 5 and state championship. The Hebron It's Academic Team placed in the Maryland State Finals for the first time in its history. ==Notable alumni==

• Lindsey Jordan of Snail Mail • Aaron Maybin - football player with the Toronto Argonauts • Xavier Proctor - football player • Sandra Stosz - retired U.S. Coast Guard Vice-Admiral and former Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy • Cathy Reese - Head Coach of Woman's Lacrosse at the University of Maryland ==Racism incident and protest==

In February 2016, a student attending the school published a racist video to the internet, in which he ranted against the Black Lives Matter movement, saying "who the (expletive) cares about some black man who dies? They're an inferior race, OK?" He also claimed that Abraham Lincoln was "a traitor to the white race." In response to this, about 150 students staged a protest to show their opposition to the racist attitudes expressed in the video. ==References==