Poolesville High School

Poolesville High School
The PHS Falcon, the school's mascot, chosen to represent truth, honor, and loyalty.
Location
Poolesville, Maryland United States
Coordinates	39°8′36″N 77°25′6″W / 39.14333°N 77.41833°W / 39.14333; -77.41833Coordinates: 39°8′36″N 77°25′6″W / 39.14333°N 77.41833°W / 39.14333; -77.41833
Information
Type	Public (Magnet) Secondary
Established	1911
Principal	Deena Levine
Number of students	1,235
Color(s)	Black and gold
Website	Poolesville High School

Poolesville High School is a public high school located in Poolesville, Maryland. It is home to the Global Ecology Program, the Humanities Program, the Science, Math, Computer Science (SMCS) Program and the Independent Studies Program (ISP).

History

The core of the building was built in 1911 as an elementary school. The school housed Poolesville's middle school and high school up until 1997 when John Poole Middle School was built.^[1] Poolesville's first graduates were seven students in 1920.^[2]

From the school's inception until 2002, the school's mascot was an Indian, and its logo was the profile of an Indian warrior in full head-dress. In 2001, amidst some controversy, the school's students and Poolesville Community voted on whether to keep the Indian mascot or to change the school's mascot to a Falcon. Although the students and community elected to keep the Indian as the school mascot, at the beginning of the 2001-2002 school year the Maryland Bureau of Indian Affairs overruled the vote. Beginning the 2002–2003 school year, the students voted to change the school's mascot to a Falcon.

Academics

Starting in the 2006-2007 school year, honor students in northern Montgomery County ("upcounty") have the opportunity to become a part of one of three "houses": Global Ecology; Humanities; or Science, Math, and Computer Science. Students who test to get in the Magnet Houses are "certificate" and are required to take the standard courses. Students who do not test in, but still go to Poolesville High School are able to become a part of a house called Independent Studies, but are "non-certificate" and can choose to take specialized courses. The science department has been voted the number one department for the past five years.

Transportation

10 buses service Poolesville H.S. for base-area students. There are also buses for out-of-area students in the magnet program.

Sports

Poolesville fields teams in 18 different sports including:

Baseball
Basketball
Cross Country
Cheerleading
Field Hockey
Football
Golf
Ice hockey
Lacrosse
Poms
Soccer
Softball
Swimming The Falcons have won 6 state titles (4 boys and 2 girls) 2012-2015 under two time Washington Post Coach of the Year Jon Leong.
Tennis
Track
Volleyball
Wrestling

Demographics

Year	Enrollment	Native American/ Alaskan Native	%	Asian/ Pacific Islander	%	African American	%	Non-Hispanic White	%	Hispanic	%
2012–13	1,235	3	0.2	286	23.1	62	5	717	58	99	8
2009–10	1,150	6	0.5	243	21.1	70	6.1	768	66.8	63	5.5
2008–09	1,049	8	0.8	186	17.7	60	5.7	750	71.5	45	4.3
2007–08	1,012	8	0.8	127	12.6	50	4.9	790	78.0	37	3.7
2006–07	939	5	0.1	69	7.34	54	5.8	777	82.7	34	3.6
2005–06	861	3	0.2	32	3.44	46	5.3	757	87.9	23	2.7
2004–05	825	4	0.4	35	3.34	35	4.2	728	88.2	23	2.8
2003–04	776	3	0.1	35	3.21	29	3.7	696	89.7	13	1.7
2002–03	753	3	0.2	28	2.98	23	3.1	682	90.6	17	2.3

Notable students

Sandy Cameron, classical violinist^[3]
Matthew Heimbach, white supremacist and neo-Nazi activist^[4]

References

↑ "Town of Poolesville Comprehensive Master Plan" (PDF). December 5, 2011.
↑ Jewell, E. Guy (1976). From One Room to Open Space: A History of Montgomery County Schools from 1732 to 1965. Rockville, Maryland: Montgomery County Public Schools.
↑ "Virtuoso violinist comes home to play". Gazette.net. Poolesville, MD. 2007.
↑ "This White Nationalist Who Shoved a Trump Protester May Be the Next David Duke". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. 2016.

External links

Official website
- Global Ecology Studies Program
- Maryland High School Sports and Projected Enrollment
Poolesville High School at the Wayback Machine (archived January 17, 1999)

Montgomery County Public Schools

Consortiums	DCC NEC

High Schools	Albert Einstein Bethesda-Chevy Chase Blake Winston Churchill Clarksburg Damascus Gaithersburg Walter Johnson John F. Kennedy Magruder Montgomery Blair Northwest Northwood Paint Branch Poolesville Quince Orchard Richard Montgomery Rockville Seneca Valley Sherwood Springbrook Wootton Whitman Watkins Mill Wheaton

Technical High Schools	Edison

Closed High Schools	Robert E. Peary Charles W. Woodward

Middle Schools	A. Mario Loiederman Argyle Benjamin Banneker Briggs Chaney Cabin John Col. E. Brooke Lee Earle B. Wood Eastern Forest Oak Francis Scott Key Gaithersburg Herbert Hoover John Poole John T. Baker Julius West Kingsview Lakelands Park Martin Luther King, Jr. Montgomery Village Neelsville Newport Mill North Bethesda Parkland Thomas W. Pyle Redland Ridgeview Robert Frost Roberto W. Clemente Rocky Hill Rosa M. Parks Shady Grove Silver Spring International Sligo Takoma Park Tilden Westland White Oak William Farquhar

Primary Schools	List of 131 Schools

Alternative Schools and Special Education	Alternative Programs Carl Sandburg Center Emory Grove Center Fleet Street Glenmont Hadley Farms Longview Mark Twain McKenney Hills Regional Institute For Children & Adolescents Rock Terrace Stephen Knolls

Montgomery County, Maryland high schools

Montgomery County Public Schools

Zoned schools	Albert Einstein Bethesda-Chevy Chase Blake Clarksburg Damascus Gaithersburg John F. Kennedy Magruder Montgomery Blair Northwest Northwood Paint Branch Poolesville Quince Orchard Richard Montgomery Rockville Seneca Valley Sherwood Thomas Sprigg Wootton Walt Whitman Walter Johnson Watkins Mill Wheaton Winston Churchill

Magnet/alternative schools	Thomas Edison High School of Technology

Independent schools

Secular private	Barrie School Bullis School German School Washington, D.C. Holton-Arms School Landon School Lycée Rochambeau Nora School

Religious	Academy of the Holy Cross Avalon School Brookewood School Connelly School of the Holy Child Don Bosco Cristo Rey High School Georgetown Preparatory School The Heights School Our Lady of Good Counsel High School St. Andrew's Episcopal School Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart

This list is incomplete.

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