It is part of the Howard County Public School System, and serves families from Ellicott City, Elkridge, Hanover and Columbia.

Several of the policies begun in earnest was directing money and bus contracts to use fose close and consolidate many of the older rural one-room wood-frame construction schoolhouses and to begin consolidation / mergers using now more easily readily available gasoline powered motorized buses to transport pupils into several central modern schools of several rooms or floors of modern brick and concrete construction.

After the subsequent World War II, the economy roared back more prosperous and conditions improved dramatically as the millions of soldiers and sailors returned home.

[2] A site was picked at the family farm of retired General and former Baltimore City Police Commissioner Charles D. Gaither (1860-1947), whose grandfather, George R. Gaither, had once raised Southern cavalry troops there for the famous General J. E. B. Stuart of the Confederate States Army and its Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War (1861-1865) on that site.

[7] A highlight of the Howard High commencement ceremonies at its 50th anniversary was the one once attended by United States Supreme Court Justice, Tom C. Clark who arrived by helicopter from Washington, D.C., 30 miles southwest.