Wilde Lake High School is a secondary school located in Columbia, Maryland's Village of Wilde Lake, one of 12 public high schools in Howard County. Bids were requested by January 1970 for an 1,350 seat school to be built for an estimated $2.6 million. Opened in 1971 as a model school for the nation, it was Columbia's first high school. It had a unique open doughnut-shaped design with "open classrooms" and was a model school for new teaching settings. In 1994, the original 910-student building which did not meet current safety standards was demolished. A new $20 million 1,200-seat building was reconstructed on the same site with a more traditional style by Cochran, Stephenson and Donkevoet.