Hereford High School is a four-year public high school located in the rural northern Baltimore County town of Parkton, Maryland, United States, as part of the Baltimore County Public Schools (BCoPS). The secondary school was established in 1954.The school's district is the Hereford Zone. The Hereford Zone covers 233sqmi and makes up over a third of Baltimore County by area. Like those of most public schools in the region, Hereford students are transported by a busing system.Hereford is notable for its agriscience program. It was the only one of its kind among the county's public high schools. Hereford's base feeder school, Hereford Middle School, also has a smaller agricultural program.Hereford High School historyThe Agricultural High School was opened by then rural Baltimore County in Sparks, Maryland in 1909 and had its first graduating class in 1912. The name was changed to Sparks High School around 1920, and it was converted into an elementary school in 1953. Hereford High School was established in nearby Parkton, Maryland to replace Sparks High School in 1954. It originally was home to a large population of farmers' children in northern Baltimore County due to the fact that at one time, Hereford's economy was almost entirely agriculture based. Since then, the disappearance of small farms and the growth of suburban housing development has caused the high school's agrarian roots to be carried on mostly by local tradition and its agricultural courses.
