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Education
Silver Spring is part of Montgomery County Public Schools’ Downcounty Consortium, which includes five high schools and their feeder elementary and middle schools. Each high school offers distinctive academic programs. Admission outside a student’s home school is generally based on a lottery for each school. Students are guaranteed to get into their home school if it is their first choice, or if it’s their second choice and they don’t get into their first-choice school.
Students can test into Montgomery Blair High School’s Math/Science/Computer Science magnet program and Communication Arts Program, Albert Einstein High School’s Visual Arts Center, and Richard Montgomery’s International Baccalaureate (IB) magnet program. Students have to fill out a detailed application for a spot in the Leadership Training Institute (LTI) at John F. Kennedy High School.
MCPS contacts:
Community Superintendent for the Blair, Einstein, Northwood and Kennedy high school clusters: Bronda L. Mills, 301-315-7374
Community Superintendent for the Wheaton High School cluster: Christopher S. Garran, 301-315-7379
High Schools
Montgomery Blair High School
51 University Blvd. East, Silver Spring, 301-649-2800
Academy programs:
- Entrepreneurship; Human Services Professions; International Studies and Law; Music, Media and the Arts; Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (S.T.E.M.)
Application-only programs:
- Communication Arts Program (CAP): Open only to students in the Downcounty Consortium
- Science, Math and Computer Science Magnet Program: Open to students living in these high school clusters: Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Winston Churchill, Walter Johnson, Richard Montgomery, Rockville, Sherwood, Walt Whitman, Thomas S. Wootton, the Downcounty Consortium and the Northeast Consortium
Albert Einstein High School
11135 Newport Mill Road, Kensington, 301-929-2200
Academy programs:
- Academy of Finance, Business Management and Marketing; Academy of Visual and Performing Arts; Renaissance Academy; International Baccalaureate Program
Application-only program:
- Visual Art Center (VAC): Open to all MCPS students
John F. Kennedy High School
1901 Randolph Road, Silver Spring, 301-929-2100
Academy programs:
- Broadcast Journalism; Business Management; Creative Multi-Media; Medical Careers
- Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (NJROTC); Physical Therapy; Public Communications; International Baccalaureate Program
Application-only program:
- Leadership Training Institute (LTI): Open to current eighth-grade students living in the Downcounty Consortium attendance area as well as those who attend a Downcounty feeder middle school on an approved change-of-school assignment.
Northwood High School
919 University Blvd. West, Silver Spring, 301-649-8088
Academy Programs:
- Academy of Technology, Environmental and Systems Sciences (TESS); Academy of Politics, Advocacy, and Law (PAL); Academy of Humanities, Art and Media (HAM); The Academy of Musical Theatre
Wheaton High School
12601 Dalewood Drive, Silver Spring, 301-929-2050
Academy Programs:
- Bioscience Academy; Academy of Information Technology; Academy of Engineering; Institute for Global and Cultural Studies
Middle Schools
Three schools—Argyle, Parkland and A. Mario Loiederman—offer magnet programs open to fifth-graders residing in the geographic area covered by the schools. Admission is based on a lottery. Eastern and Takoma Park middle schools also offer application-only magnet programs.
Argyle Middle School
2400 Bel Pre Road, Silver Spring, 301-460-2400
Magnet Program for Digital Design and Development
A. Mario Loiederman Middle School for the Creative and Performing Arts
12701 Goodhill Road, Silver Spring, 301-929-2282
Parkland Magnet Middle School for Aerospace Technology
4610 West Frankfort Drive, Rockville, 301-438-5700
Eastern Middle School
300 University Blvd. East, Silver Spring, 301-650-6650
Humanities and Communications Magnet Program
Col E. Brooke Lee Middle School
11800 Monticello Ave., Silver Spring, 301-649-8100
Silver Spring International Middle School
313 Wayne Ave., Silver Spring, 301-650-6544
Specialty Programs: Middle Years Programme (International Baccalaureate Program), French Immersion and Spanish Immersion programs
Sligo Middle School
1401 Dennis Ave., Silver Spring, 301-649-8121
Takoma Park Middle School
7611 Piney Branch Road, Silver Spring, 301-650-6444
Elementary Schools
Montgomery Blair High School Base Area:
East Silver Spring Elementary School
631 Silver Spring Ave., Silver Spring, 301-650-6420
Montgomery Knolls Elementary School
807 Daleview Drive, Silver Spring, 301-431-7667
New Hampshire Estates Elementary School
8720 Carroll Ave., Silver Spring, 301-431-7607
Oak View Elementary School
400 East Wayne Ave., Silver Spring, 301-929-2040
Oakland Terrace
2720 Plyers Mill Road,Silver Spring, 301-929-2161
Woodlin Elementary School
2101 Luzerne Ave., Silver Spring, 301-650-6440
John F. Kennedy High School Base Area:
Bel Pre Elementary
13801 Rippling Brook Drive,Silver Spring, 301-460-2145
Georgian Forest Elementary
3100 Regina Drive, Silver Spring, 301-460-2170
Glenallan Elementary
12520 Heurich Road (temporarily located at 11313 Old Columbia Pike during school construction),Silver Spring, 301-929-2014
Harmony Hills Elementary
13407 Lydia St.,Silver Spring, 301-929-2157
Strathmore Elementary
3200 Beaverwood Lane, ?Silver Spring, 301-460-2135
Northwood High School Base Area:
Arcola Elementary School
1820 Franwall Ave., Silver Spring, 301-649-8590
Forest Knolls Elementary School
10830 Eastwood Ave.,Silver Spring,301-649-8060
Glen Haven Elementary School
10900 Inwood Ave.,Silver Spring, 301-649-8051
Highland View Elementary School
9010 Providence Ave.,Silver Spring, 301-650-6426
Kemp Mill Elementary School
411 Sisson St., Silver Spring, 301-649-8046
Wheaton High School Base Area:
Sargent Shriver Elementary
12518 Greenly Drive, Silver Spring, 301-929-4426
Viers Mill Elementary
11711 Joseph Mill Road, Silver Spring, 301-929-2165
Montgomery College
The community college has campuses in Takoma Park/Silver Spring, Rockville and Germantown. The Takoma Park/Silver Spring campus offers the Health Sciences Center, the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center and the Cultural Arts Center with a 500-seat theater and dance studio.
7600 Takoma Ave., Takoma Park,240-567-1300
