School History
Winters Mill High School is named after a grist mill that stood in the village of Cranberry. Winters Mill operated through most of the 1800s until the site was cleared in the 1920s to make way for the Westminster Water Treatment Plant. The original mill raceway, which brought water to the old mill, is still used to supply water to the plant for the City of Westminster.
Tremendous overcrowding in Westminster High School during the 1990s demanded a new school in Westminster. After the construction of Century High School in Eldersburg, Maryland, Winters Mill was built with a nearly identical architectural design.
Construction of Winters Mill High School began in the summer of 2000, and the school opened in the fall of 2002 with ninth and tenth grade students the first year. Each subsequent year an additional grade was added until the fall of 2004 when the student body became complete. The school's enrollment capacity is 1200, though enrollment has been slightly over the capacity of 1200 since the 2005-2006 school year.
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