page_title: Northwestern High School (Hyattsville, Maryland)
section_title: Northwestern Campus (2000-present)
hierarchical_section_title: Northwestern High School (Hyattsville, Maryland) / Northwestern Campus (2000-present)
caption_attribution_description: English: The B/G-Building at Northwestern High School in Hyattsville, MD, USA. The large glass "wall" area on the side of the building is one of three "satellite cafeteria's" at Northwestern. These satellite cafeteria's supplement the main food court.
context_page_description: Northwestern High School is a public comprehensive and magnet high school. It is located in Hyattsville, Maryland, United States in Prince George's County, less than a mile from the University of Maryland, College Park in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. It is part of the Prince George's County Public Schools system.
  Established in 1951 at its current location off Adelphi Road, the original building was demolished in the summer of 2000, and a modern facility now stands in its place. Opening in August 2000, at 386,000 sq ft and a capacity of 2,700 students, Northwestern is the second largest high school in the state of Maryland when measured by total square footage. It was the first of the county's current high schools to be replaced with a new facility.
  Northwestern became the school district's second Center for the Visual and Performing Arts magnet high school, with the program commencing for the 2013-14 school year. The CVPA program is a highly selective, rigorous four-year specialized program that offers college prep and professional career prep study in the visual arts and performing arts. Admission to the program is through a competitive, two-stage application process.
context_section_description: At 386,000 sq ft (35,900 m²), Northwestern High School has a capacity of 2,700 students, with a Fall 2013 enrollment of approximately 2,217. Northwestern's largest enrollment was reached during the 2006-2007 school year, with over 3,000 students. Northwestern had over twenty portable classrooms to accommodate the over-enrollment. Ironically, the school had never had portable trailers until after the new facility was built. Even though Northwestern's 2013-14 enrollment was under capacity, the school then housed twenty portable classrooms. The additional space was primarily needed to accommodate the expansive course offerings and programs available at the school.
  Until 2006, Northwestern was officially the largest high school in Maryland when measured by square footage, a distinction that has since been given up to the new 434,600 sq ft (40,380 m²). Dr. Henry A. Wise, Jr. High School.  However, with Wise having a capacity of 2,600 students and Northwestern having a capacity of 2,700, Northwestern is still the largest high school in the county in terms of capacity.
  There was controversy for a time for the distinction of what was then physically the largest high school in Maryland, between Northwestern and neighboring Montgomery Blair High School in Montgomery County. Both had been designed by the same architectural firm, around the same time (Blair in 1998; Northwestern in 2000); both share a similar design inside and out; and they are of similar size. Blair was constructed at 372,000 sq ft (34,600 m²) originally and Northwestern at386,000 sq ft (35,900 m²). Through certain technicalities, Blair's total square footage was upped to around 386,000 sq ft (35,900 m²). It was decided that Northwestern, with the addition of its greenhouse to the second floor of the A-Wing in 2001, retains its slightly larger physical size over Blair, despite Blair having a larger maximum student capacity.
  Northwestern's campus features three courtyards between the four wings of the building. The school has a total of five parking lots: the large main parking lot (located in front of the facility, where the former facility once stood) designated for staff and visitors; an adjacent lot located in front of the auditorium, reserved for staff and students; two smaller lots at the rear of the facility, reserved for staff or visitors attending athletic events; and a large bus bay capable of accommodating 44 school buses, located in front of the facility, which doubles as another lot for staff and visitors, during and after the regular school day.
  The school has six tennis courts located just outside the auditorium to the east of the building and it has several basketball courts located at the rear of the building outside the food court, which have been decommissioned and now serves as an area which houses several of the school's portable classrooms. There are three athletic fields  in the rear of the building: the football/soccer stadium, which also encompasses the running track which surrounds the football/soccer field; a softball field, and a baseball field.
  Northwestern is divided into four distinct "sub-schools": the A-Wing, B/G-Wing, C-Wing, and D/E/F-Wing. Each can house between 600 and 700 students. The original plan was to physically divide the school into four smaller schools, hence the design theme of the building. Sub-School A was intended to be the "School of Fine, Creative, and Performing Arts"; Sub-School B was to be the "School of Career and Consumer Education"; Sub-School C was to be a general facility that housed mainly elective courses, in addition the school's main offices, security office, and health center; and Sub-School D was to be "The School of Intensive and Specialized Instruction," which would house the school's honors and advanced placement program as well as the school's ESOL (English Speakers of Other Languages) program and Vocational Development (Special Education) program. Students were not to be permitted to interact with students from other sub-schools, and  were to be isolated within their sub-school for the majority o
caption: Exterior photo of the B/G Wing
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