South River High School is a large public high school in the United States, in the Annapolis suburb of Edgewater, Maryland in Anne Arundel County. It was built in 1978 and has 2,210 students currently enrolled, making it the largest public high school in Anne Arundel County (student body wise). It received a Blue Ribbon in education. Due to recent overcrowding in the Crofton area, students are bused in from Crofton, in addition to Davidsonville, Mayo, Riva, and Edgewater. South River's rival school is Arundel High School. South River has a great reputation throughout Maryland and is known as one of the best high schools in Anne Arundel County. In 2013, Newsweek ranked South River as one of the top 30 high schools in Maryland, and one of the top 1,000 in the country.