Facts & Figures
New Town High School
August 2003

Opening to students in August 2003, New Town High School cost $35.3 million to construct (including $7.6 million in state funding). The two-story structure sits on a rolling, 64-acre site in northwest Baltimore County and contains 30 regular classrooms, 8 science labs, 3 art rooms, 3 music rooms, 4 technology classrooms, dance studio, and 2 family studies labs. The school was built to a state capacity of 1,348 students and will open with 9th and 10th grade students. The school will employ 36 teachers.

Based on the award-winning design, New Town High School is designed to be a comprehensive high school with a career academy component and ninth-grade “house” providing a welcoming, transitory environment for freshmen. The school, which is built around a “Main Street” design popular in many modern high schools, features many enhancements to promote student achievement:

• A library/media center able to hold more than 18,000 volumes.
• 3 business computer labs, 1 math computer lab, 1 technology education computer lab, and other computer stations throughout the school, including a lab located adjacent to the media center with an Internet and media retrieval system.
• Each classroom is wired for at least four student computer stations and one teacher computer station.
• A 600-seat auditorium and cafeteria that can seat up to 405.

The school will also feature many amenities not often found in many high schools. The school will operate both a greenhouse and, as part of its four technology education labs, a radio studio and video production capabilities. The full-service cafeteria will feature food courts. The school will be fully accessible to the disabled and equipped with both external and internal security and surveillance systems.

Upon the school’s crest are the words “Truth, Honor, Loyalty,” and its motto is “Today we learn, tomorrow we lead.” New Town High’s school colors are burgundy and gold.

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