Wilde Lake High School

Wilde Lake High School is a secondary school located in Columbia, Maryland's Village of Wilde Lake, United States, one of 13 public high schools in Howard County.

The school is centrally located in Howard County, and its district borders that of River Hill High School, Marriotts Ridge High School, Centennial High School, Howard High School, Oakland Mills High School, and Atholton High School.

History
Bids were requested by January 1970 for a 1,350-seat school to be built for an estimated $2.6 million. Opened in 1971 as a model school for the nation, it was Columbia's first high school. It had an open doughnut-shaped design with "open classrooms," and was a model school for new teaching settings.

In 1994, the original 910-student building, which did not meet current safety standards, was demolished. A new $20 million 1,200-seat building with a more traditional style was reconstructed on the same site by Cochran, Stephenson and Donkevoet. The new building, opened in 1996, replicates the open idea, with a central main street, and halls surrounding it and a bridge across the second floor.

Students
The racial makeup of the population during the 2017–2018 school year was 26.7% White, 43.8% Black or African American, 7.2% Asian, 14.6% Hispanic or Latino, 0% Native American, 0.4% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, and 7.4% two or more races.

Jim Rouse Theatre
Wilde Lake has a modern 750-seat theater named for Columbia founder James Rouse, who went by "Jim". The theatre has its own separate entrance and is used by both school and community groups. The 12,500-square-foot performance space is also used for community meetings, sales rallies, exhibitions, and business training sessions. The theatre has a total of 739 seats and eight handicapped accessible locations.

Athletics
Wilde Lake High School has a number of sports teams for each season of the academic year, including football, soccer, golf, volleyball, basketball, and cross country. The school has won the following state championships:

Cross country

 * 1971 – Boys' cross country
 * 1996 – Girls' cross country
 * 1996 – Boys' cross country
 * 2005 – Boys' cross country
 * 2006 – Boys' cross country
 * 2007 – Boys' cross country

Football

 * 1985 – Football
 * 1990 - Football
 * 1991 – Football
 * 1992 – Football
 * 1997 – Football
 * 2010 – Football

Soccer

 * 1976 – Boys' soccer
 * 1981 – Boys' soccer
 * 1982 – Boys' soccer
 * 1983 – Boys' soccer
 * 1984 – Boys' soccer
 * 1991 – Boys' soccer
 * 1997 – Boys' soccer
 * 2019 – Boys' soccer

Basketball

 * 1985 – Boys' basketball
 * 1994 - Boys' basketball State Finalist
 * 1995 – Girls' basketball

Ice hockey
Wilde lake no longer fields an independent ice hockey team. From 2011–2018, a co-op team with players from Oakland Mills and Hammond High Schools was formed, known as the “WHO”. In 2018, Centennial and Long Reach High Schools joined the WHO to form the Wolves.
 * 2008 – State Finalist

Tennis

 * 1985 – Boys' tennis doubles
 * 1986 – Mixed doubles
 * 2001 – Mixed doubles
 * 2006 – Boys' tennis singles

Track and field

 * 1975 – Boys' track and field

In 2015, Carol Satterwhite, a physical education teacher at the Wilde Lake High School was selected for the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association Hall of Fame.

Band program
The school has a band program consisting of groups including the marching band and wind ensemble.

The Paw Print
The Paw Print is an independent publication of Wilde Lake High School.

Accommodations
Wilde Lake has a special education program. In addition to its programs for the disabled, Wilde Lake accommodates teen mothers through their in school daycare center.

Notable alumni

 * Zach Brown (class of 2007) – American football player, free agent
 * David Bentley Hart (class of 1982) – writer, theologian, and cultural critic
 * Isaiah Coulter - attended freshman through junior year
 * Dr. Terri L. Hill (class of 1977) - Maryland State Delegate, District 12
 * Carly Hughes (class of 2000) - singer and actress
 * Robert Kolker (class of 1987) – author and journalist
 * Mark D. Levine (class of 1987) – Manhattan borough president
 * Sara Lindsey (class of 2007) – actress
 * Laura Lippman (class of 1977) – author and award-winning journalist
 * Edward Norton (class of 1987) – actor
 * Maria L. Oesterreicher (Class of 1986) - Judge - first female Circuit Court Judge in the history of Carroll County Maryland
 * John Overdeck (class of 1986) – hedge fund manager and philanthropist
 * Elise Ray (Class of 2000) - Olympic Gymnast
 * Lo-Fang (class of 2002) – musician
 * Jim Traber (class of 1979) - Major League Baseball Player for the Baltimore Orioles
 * Curtis Yarvin (class of 1988) – computer scientist, political philosopher, neoreactionary thinker