Friendly High School is a public high school in Fort Washington, Maryland in Prince George's County, a county in the state of Maryland in the United States of America. The school's first classes began in 1970 with 10th, and 11th and 12th grades. In 1987 the first 9th grade class was added at that point the high school had 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grades and Jr. high schools were then renamed Middle Schools and consisted of 7th and 8th grades. The first seniors graduated in 1972.HistoryIn 2009 Sheryl Cashin said in The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class are Undermining the American Dream that Friendly High was one of several mostly black, mostly middle class PG County public high schools that was "decidedly underachieving: fewer than half of the seniors at these schools went on to attend four-year colleges in recent years."In the 80's Friendly was an equal mix of Caucasian, Black, as well as others minority's. During the 70's and 80's the student populations where upper middle class to middle class families. Graduation rates where extremely high and a majority of these students went on to achieve a 4 year college education.School uniformsFriendly has a mandatory school uniform policy that began with the 2006–2007 school year.School championshipsThe school has won State Championships in the sports of Basketball in 1998, 2003 and 2004, Football and, in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and in 2006 Indoor and Outdoor track. During the 2006 football season, the Patriots were undefeated, and ended their perfect season by winning the 3A state championship by beating River Hill High School on December 9, 2006 led by star quarterback Joe Haden. They also did the same in 1998 beating Eastern Technical High School. Won the state football championship in 1974 and 1978. In 1974, the team was led by running back Byron Stewart (Nebraska).
