About
Mission
MISSION
Winters Mill High School provides learning opportunities for students' emotional development, positive relationship, and academic excellence to become college and career ready in a global society.
VISION
To provide rigorous opportunities that develop the entire student and allow them to think through all problems in order to adjust to the changing demands.
MOTTO
PASSION- A feeling that keeps your will to live wildly alive, oxygen of the soul and energy of the heart, an intangible emotion that inspires you to carry out your dreams every day.
PURPOSE - Living life to the fullest and knowing there is a reason for your journey, the reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists.
PRIDE- A feeling of deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one’s own achievements, the achievements of those with whom one is closely associated, or from qualities of possessions that are widely.
PHILOSOPHY
Winters mill is a public education school in Carroll County Maryland with a wide range of student cultures, abilities, and needs. Through every staff member and our mission, we create a student-centered culture striving for excellence in all that we do. As a community we prepare students for todays world by taking ownership in student progress and communicating with all Winters Mill Stakeholders.
History
Winters Mill High School opened in August of 2002 and is a comprehensive high school in Westminster, Maryland part of the Carroll County Public School System. WMHS has a 1,200 student capacity serving the north central community of Carroll County. Winters Mill began with ninth and tenth grade students in the first year before adding additional grades the following years to reach full school functionality in the 2004-2005 school year. The school began with academies which organized the school into smaller learning environments to increase relevance and rigor by focusing on career interest. Winters Mill has moved away from the academy schools in order to provide students with a more traditional high school learning environment.
The mascot is the falcon, and the school colors are burgundy, white, and silver.
The History of Winters Mill High School
The school is named after a grist mill that stood in the village of Cranberry. Winters Mill operated through most of the 1800's. The site was cleared in the 1920's to make way for the Westminster Water Treatment Plant. The original mill raceway, which brought water to the old mill, is still used to supply water to the plant for the City of Westminster.
Tremendous overcrowding in Westminster High School during the 1990's demanded a new school—Winters Mill. The student body comes from the City of Westminster and the central portion of Carroll County north to the Pennsylvania line.
All of the graduates of Westminster’s East Middle School move on to Winters Mill, with an additional 7% of the students coming from Westminster West Middle School.
Construction of Winters Mill High School began in the summer of 2000.