River Hill High School is a public high school in Clarksville, Maryland. It is part of the Howard County public school system. It is one of the two former Technology Magnet schools in Howard County, along with Long Reach High School. It currently participates in the county-wide Career Academy initiative as a replacement to the magnet program.
Nick Novak is the current principal and was appointed after Bill Ryan, the previous principal, was assigned to the school board before the 2010-11 school year. He won the "New Principal of the Year" award for the 2010-11 school year. Betsy Coe and Napoleon Saunders are the vice principals.
River Hill High school is consistently recognized as a top-performing high school by various news publications. It garnered a "silver medal" by U.S. News & World Report. It was recognized by BusinessWeek as having the "Best Overall Academic Performance" in all of Maryland. It was ranked 295 out of 1500 high schools in 2009, which represent the top 6 percent of public high schools in the U.S., by Newsweek magazine.
It is also ranked 10th of 225 High Schools in the State of Maryland as of 2012.
It is considered the # 236th school in the nation and 10th in MD by US News in a survey consisting of nearly 22,000 schools all over the US
The school borders the boundaries of several other Howard County Schools in including Glenelg High School, Marriotts Ridge High School, Wilde Lake High School, Atholton High School, and Reservoir High School.
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