Overlea High School (OHS) is a four-year public high school in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. The school was opened in 1961.
About the school The original building was constructed in the early-1960s. The main structure is . It is located on Kenwood Avenue in eastern Baltimore County near the I-695 and I-95 interchange. Though in an unincorporated part of the county, it serves the areas of White Marsh, Rosedale, Overlea, and Fullerton.
Overlea's school district borders Parkville High School, Perry Hall High School, Kenwood High School, and Dundalk High School.
Academics Overlea High school received a total earned points percentage of 41.1% on the 2024-2025 Maryland State Department of Education Report Card and received a 2 out of 5 star rating, ranking in the 9th percentile among all Maryland schools.
Students The 2019–2020 enrollment at Overlea High School was 1,474 students.
The graduation rate at Overlea has been steady at 80-85% over the past 10 years.
+Student population 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 1,081 1,129 1,097 1,035 1,030 983 1,048 1,152 1,128 1,173 1,199 1,180 1,180 1,247 1,339 1,268 1,210
Demographic Based on current enrollment information, there are approximately 1,500 students that attend Overlea High School. There are 430 students in the ninth grade, 405 students in the tenth grade, 369 in the eleventh grade, and 332 in the twelfth grade.
Ethnicity distribution Of the 1,230 students that attend Overlea High School, 808 (65.7%) of them are Black or African American, 25 (2.1%) are Asian American, 77 (6.3%) are Hispanic or Latino, 279 (22.7%) are White, and 38 (3.1%) are other.
Gender distribution Of the 1,230 students, there are 553 (45%) girls and 676 (55%) boys.
Athletics State championships Boys Soccer One Class 1971 Pre-MPSSAA Class A 1948 Wrestling Group: Class 2A-1A Dual Meet 1999 Softball Class AA 1981
Notable alumni Bernard Hopkins, (1992) is a professional basketball player in Spain's Liga ACB. Dave Johnson (1977), former Major League pitcher, currently a broadcaster for MASN Jamie Miller (1993) drummer for Bad Religion, guitarist/drummer for ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, theSTART, drummer for Snot Mike Riley, (1993) is an American cartoonist best known as the creator of the webcomic, I Taste Sound Mike Rowe, (1980) is an American media personality. He is the host of the Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs, as well as narrator for other programs on the Discovery Channel
References and notes
See also List of Schools in Baltimore County, Maryland
External links
Official site