Crossland High School is a public secondary school

Secondary school

Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...

 located in Temple Hills

Temple Hills, Maryland

Temple Hills is a suburb of Washington DC, southeast of the downtown district. It is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. The greater Temple Hills mailing address includes not just the tiny red area on this map, but also the area...

, Maryland

Maryland

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. The school serves about 2,000 students in grades 9 to 12 in the Prince George's County Public Schools

Prince George's County Public Schools

The Prince George's County Public Schools system is a large school district administered by the government of Prince George's County, Maryland, United States and is overseen by the Maryland State Department of Education...

 system. Crossland is named after a prominent early Maryland family. The vocational wing was dedicated by President Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1967.

In popular culture

The high school in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series

Diary of a Wimpy Kid (series)

Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a series of fiction books written by American author and cartoonist Jeff Kinney. The books are the journals of the main character, whose name is Greg Heffley. Befitting a child's diary, they are filled with hand written notes and simple drawings of his daily adventures...

 is called Crossland High School.

Notable alumni

• Mark Davis
  Mark Davis (talk show host)
  Mark Davis is an American radio host, newspaper columnist, and political commentator. His local talk show, The Mark Davis Show, airs on weekdays from 8:30 AM to 11 AM on WBAP in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex, and his popular column is published in The Dallas Morning News...
  
  , Dallas radio talk show host and newspaper columnist, class of 1975
• Durrell "Tank" Babbs, R&B singer
• Israel Bell, gospel singer
• Julian Peterson
  Julian Peterson
  Julian Thomas Peterson is a free agent linebacker in the National Football League. He was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in the first round of the 2000 NFL Draft. He played college football at Michigan State...
  
  , NFL football player
• Walt "The Wizard" Williams
  Walt Williams
  Walter Ander Williams is a retired American professional basketball player. A sharpshooting 6'8" forward/guard, Williams attended school at the University of Maryland from 1988 to 1992, and is credited by many for resurrecting the school's basketball program which was going through very...
  
  , NBA basketball player
• Stephen Tyrone Johns, Security officer who died in the line of duty in the 2009 Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting.
• Peter Bergman
  Peter Bergman
  Peter Bergman is an American soap opera actor best known for his portrayals as Dr. Cliff Warner on All My Children, as well as Jack Abbott on The Young and the Restless.-Biography:...
  
  , Daytime television actor, currently Jack on CBS' The Young and the Restless. Crossland Class of 1971
• Pierre Edwards, Actor, comedian. Crossland Class of 1985.
• Jess Atkinson
  Jess Atkinson
  Jess Gerald Atkinson is a former American football placekicker in the National Football League for the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants, Washington Redskins, and the Indianapolis Colts...
  
  , place kicker, Washington Redskins.