Annapolis High School is an American high school located in Anne Arundel County on Riva Road, near the city of Annapolis, Maryland.
Founded in 1898, Annapolis was the first public high school to open in Anne Arundel County and among the first in the state of Maryland. The school originally occupied a handsome brick building in downtown Annapolis, but the post World War I surge in population led to the construction of a new school that stood on th...
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Annapolis High School is an American high school located in Anne Arundel County on Riva Road, near the city of Annapolis, Maryland.
Founded in 1898, Annapolis was the first public high school to open in Anne Arundel County and among the first in the state of Maryland. The school originally occupied a handsome brick building in downtown Annapolis, but the post World War I surge in population led to the construction of a new school that stood on the outskirts of the city within shouting distance of Wiley H. Bates "Colored" High School. Only in the mid-1960s, more than a decade after the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education ruling, was Annapolis High desegregated. Soon thereafter, Bates High School was renamed/repurposed into Annapolis Middle School for grades 9 and 10 in 1966 and 1967, and then to Bates Junior High School for grades 7-9 in 1968. The original Bates High School Building at 1101 Smithville Street served as a public school until the early 1981 when Bates Middle...
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