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The Maryland Public Secondary School Athletic Association’s biennial classification realignment for the 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 school years has been released, and several significant changes are in effect regarding local schools.
Severna Park will see three programs move to the 4A ranks next school year: field hockey, baseball, and outdoor track and field. The field hockey team will enter the 4A East Region I field with Crofton, Meade and Severn Run. Baseball will also compete in 4A East I alongside Glen Burnie, Meade, Mergenthaler, North County and Severn Run. Outdoor track and field will join Broadneck and 11 other schools in a combined 4A East region.
The MPSSAA calculates classifications and regions for each sanctioned sport based largely on a handful of criteria. Each school’s overall student body population for grades nine to 11 is ranked from most populous to least (4A to 1A), and then the schools are assigned into roughly even-numbered groups for each sport based on student body rank and the number of schools fielding a given sport.
Though Severna Park is just below the 4A/3A line on student body size, individual programs are classified as 4A if the student body falls in the top quarter of schools offering that sport.
The other region moves for the next two school years sees Broadneck lacrosse jump from 4A East II to 4A East I, where the Bruins will compete against Annapolis, Glen Burnie, Meade and North County.
In track and field and golf specifically, a number of teams have reshuffled in and out of the schools’ respective districts. In 4A-3A East football, there is nearly half turnover, with Howard, Long Reach and Reservoir leaving, to be replaced by Arundel, Old Mill and Severn Run.
There are minor changes in virtually all competitions for both schools. Most notably, Crofton replaces Suitland in Broadneck’s 4A East II in several sports (soccer, volleyball, basketball, baseball, softball), and Old Mill joins Severna Park’s 3A East II in most of those same sports.
4A East: Annapolis, Bowie, Broadneck, Charles H. Flowers, Crofton, Dr. Henry A. Wise, Glen Burnie, Leonardtown, Meade, North County, North Point, Severn Run
3A East: Arundel, Chesapeake, Chopticon, Great Mills, James M. Bennett, Northeast, Northern, Old Mill, Severna Park, South River, St. Charles, Stephen Decatur
4A East I: Crofton, Meade, Severn Run, Severna Park
4A East II: Annapolis, Broadneck, Leonardtown, North Point
4A East: Annapolis, Bowie, Broadneck, Dundalk, Glen Burnie, Meade, North County
4A-3A East: Arundel, Crofton, Great Mills, Leonardtown, North Point, Old Mill, Severn Run, Severna Park
4A-3A District 5: Annapolis, Arundel, Atholton, Broadneck, Centennial, Chesapeake, Crofton, Glen Burnie, Guilford Park, Marriotts Ridge, Meade, North County, Oakland Mills, Old Mill, Reservoir, Severn Run, Severna Park, South River
4A East II: Annapolis, Bowie, Broadneck, Crofton, Leonardtown, North Point
3A East I: Arundel, James M. Bennett, Old Mill, Severna Park, South River, Stephen Decatur
4A East II: Annapolis, Bowie, Broadneck, Crofton, Leonardtown, North Point
3A East I: Arundel, James M. Bennett, Old Mill, Severna Park, South River, Stephen Decatur
4A East II: Annapolis, Bowie, Broadneck, Crofton, Leonardtown, North Point
3A East I: Arundel, James M. Bennett, Old Mill, Severna Park, South River, Stephen Decatur
4A East: Annapolis, Bladensburg, Bowie, Broadneck, Charles H. Flowers, Crofton, Dr. Henry A. Wise, Duval, Glen Burnie, Leonardtown, Meade, North County, North Point, Parkdale, Severn Run, Suitland
3A East: Aberdeen, Arundel, Chesapeake, Chopticon, Edgewood, Great Mills, James M. Bennett, Largo, Northeast, Northern, Old Mill, Oxon Hill, Potomac, Severna Park, South River, St. Charles, Stephen Decatur
4A-3A East: Annapolis, Arundel, Baltimore Polytechnic, Broadneck, Crofton, Digital Harbor, Glen Burnie, Meade, Mergenthaler, North County, Old Mill, Severn Run, Severna Park, South River, Western
4A East: Annapolis, Bladensburg, Bowie, Broadneck, Charles H. Flowers, Dr. Henry A. Wise, Duval, Eleanor Roosevelt, Leonardtown, North Point, Parkdale, Suitland
3A East: Arundel, Chopticon, Great Mills, James M. Bennett, Largo, Oxon Hill, Potomac, Severna Park, South River, St. Charles, Stephen Decatur
4A East I: Glen Burnie, Meade, Mergenthaler, North County, Severn Run, Severna Park
4A East II: Annapolis, Bowie, Broadneck, Crofton, Leonardtown, North Point
4A East I: Annapolis, Broadneck, Glen Burnie, Meade, North County
3A East I: Arundel, Crofton, James M. Bennett, Severna Park, South River
4A East: Annapolis, Bowie, Broadneck, Charles H. Flowers, Crofton, Dr. Henry A. Wise, Glen Burnie, Leonardtown, Meade, North County, North Point, Severn Run, Severna Park
4A East II: Annapolis, Bowie, Broadneck, Crofton, Leonardtown, North Point
3A East I: Arundel, James M. Bennett, Old Mill, Severn Run, Severna Park, South River
4A East: Annapolis, Bowie, Broadneck, Charles H. Flowers, Dr. Henry A. Wise, Glen Burnie, Leonardtown, Meade, North County, North Point, Suitland
3A East: Arundel, Chesapeake, Chopticon, Crofton, Great Mills, James M. Bennett, Old Mill, Severn Run, Severna Park, South River, St. Charles, Stephen Decatur
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