Elkridge Landing Middle School
The Howard County Public School System (HCPSS) is the school district that manages the public schools of Howard County, Maryland, USA. It is headquartered in Columbia in a facility with an Ellicott City, Maryland mailing address. It operates under the supervision of an elected, eight-member Board of Education. Sydney L. Cousin served as superintendent until 2012, when he stepped down due to illness. Renee A. Foose is the current superintendent.
The district operates 40 elementary schools, 19 middle schools, 12 high schools, and 3 special schools/education centers. As of February 2013, a total of 51,177 students were enrolled.
The current members of the Howard County Board of Education are Frank Aquino (Chairman), Brian Meshkin (Vice-Chairman), Ann DeLacy, Cynthia Vaillancourt, Ellen Flynn Giles, Sandra French, Janet Siddiqui, and Cole Rosenberg, the Student Member of the Board.
Howard County consistently earns high marks in school performance metrics such as test scores and graduation rates. It gets high percentages at all levels of the Maryland School Assessments. In 2007 Forbes magazine rated Howard County as one of the ten most cost-efficient school systems in the USA.
Read more about Elkridge Landing Middle School: High Schools, Middle Schools, Elementary Schools, Former Howard County Schools
Famous quotes containing the words landing, middle and/or school:
“I foresee the time when the painter will paint that scene, no longer going to Rome for a subject; the poet will sing it; the historian record it; and, with the Landing of the Pilgrims and the Declaration of Independence, it will be the ornament of some future national gallery, when at least the present form of slavery shall be no more here. We shall then be at liberty to weep for Captain Brown. Then, and not till then, we will take our revenge.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Oh, yes, everything’s fine. I always stop by the police station in the middle of the night to pick up my daughter.”
—Theodore Simonson. Irvin S. Yeaworth, Jr.. Mr. Martin, The Blob, when he comes to pick up Jane (1958)
“Although good early childhood programs can benefit all children, they are not a quick fix for all of society’s ills—from crime in the streets to adolescent pregnancy, from school failure to unemployment. We must emphasize that good quality early childhood programs can help change the social and educational outcomes for many children, but they are not a panacea; they cannot ameliorate the effects of all harmful social and psychological environments.”
—Barbara Bowman (20th century)