The Montgomery County Education Association (MCEA) and Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) are offering sharply different accounts of proposals made during ongoing contract negotiations, particularly regarding employee wage increases, reductions in force and healthcare benefits.
Seneca Valley High School in Germantown remains the largest public high school in Maryland by square footage. Later in this article, we’ll take a look at some of the other Maryland high schools that come closest to Seneca Valley in size.
Before helping build championship teams with the Miami Heat, Andy Elisburg grew up in Potomac and graduated from Winston Churchill High School in 1985. The Montgomery County native now serves […]
Two Montgomery County high schools will be featured on upcoming October episodes of WETA’s It’s Academic. (more…)
Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) has the highest starting salary for teachers with a bachelor’s degree among all 24 Maryland school districts, according to data compiled by Step & Lane, a database that indexes publicly available school district salary schedules.
Week 4 brings a few games that could start separating the contenders from the pack. Quince Orchard gets another chance to flex its muscle against a Seneca Valley team that may be better than any Eagles squad the Cougars have seen in years. Churchill and Whitman meet with the Congressional Cup potentially hanging in the balance, while Sherwood heads into a rivalry game with Blake before its showdown with QO. And then there are the games where somebody is finally getting over the hump.
Quince Orchard High School’s football program has made its first-ever appearance in the High School Football America 300, a national ranking of high school football teams powered by NFL Play Football. Quince Orchard was ranked No. 300.
Thomas S. Wootton High School is preparing for a major move, with the school scheduled to relocate to a new, larger facility at the Crown Farm site in Gaithersburg for the 2027-2028 school year. Renderings of the school’s interior can be seen below.
Hallie Wells Middle School in Clarksburg is celebrating its 10th anniversary during the 2026-2027 school year, marking a decade since the school first opened its doors in August 2016.
Three teenagers are in custody following an armed robbery inside Northwest High School in Germantown on Thursday, September 17. (more…)
MCPS is considering closing and consolidating elementary and middle schools. The district says declining enrollment, its first decline in more than 40 years, has left some schools with more available space than needed, even as other parts of the county continue to grow.