Academics
Several of Bennett's nonathletic organizations have seen competitive success in recent years.
The Clippers Marching Band is led by Band Director Douglas Miles, and has won numerous accolades, including traveling to the ACC championships, finishing 21st in 2007, finishing 16th and achieving a bronze medal finalist award in 2008, and finishing 13th and achieving a bronze medal finalist award in 2009, and finishing in 7th and achieving a bronze level finalist award in 2010. The band qualified for the ACC's again in 2011, but did not attend the competition due to miscommunications. The Bennett Band is one of the largest high school marching bands on the Delmarva Peninsula. Along with the marching band, the concert band is one of the most talented in the area as well, regularly achieving high scores at festivals.
JMB's Destination ImagiNation creative problem-solving teams have been successful. Two teams qualified to go to Global Finals in 2003 (one state-champion, one runner-up). In 2007, a team of freshmen won the state championship and traveled to the University of Tennessee in Knoxville for the Global Finals tournament.
The school's Academic Challenge team has also fared well, placing in the top three in the Comcast Academic Challenge for four straight years, and appearing on WJZ-TV's high school quiz show, It's Academic, where Bennett placed second for the Baltimore region in 2009.
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