Montgomery Community Media

Montgomery County police were called to Winston Churchill High School, 11300 Gainsborough Road in Potomac, at 12:11 p.m. today following reports of a stabbing. Police said the incident involved three students. According to police minor injuries were sustained from scissors and a tool used with clay. Fire Rescue Spokesperson Pete Piringer confirmed on Twitter that […]

Six Montgomery County High Schools are ranked among the top 10 public schools in the state according to a report released on Tuesday. U.S. News and World Report’s ranked Whitman High School as the best school in Maryland and 63rd best school in the country. Churchill High School follows Whitman and is ranked as second best in […]

Winston Churchill High School ranked number 88 in The Washington Post’s America’s Most Challenging High Schools list for 2016. According to a Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) news release, Churchill also ranks number one among Maryland schools and two among schools in the Washington area. The list also ranks eight  MCPS within the top 20 in […]

It was a close basketball game on Friday night but when time ran out, it was the Walter Johnson Wildcats outscoring the Winston Churchill Bulldogs, 56-49. Photographer Phil Fabrizio captured the hoops action, below: WJ retakes the lead 32-31 in the 3rd. @mymcmedia @WJWildcats @DawgsSports pic.twitter.com/lalETguy1d — Phil Fabrizio (@Photoloaf) February 6, 2016 Half time […]

Fourteen Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) students have been named as semifinalists for the 2016 Intel Science Talent Search. The semifinalists are from four MCPS high schools; Montgomery Blair, Winston Churchill, Poolesville, and Quince Orchard. According to a news release, MCPS students account for, “all but four of the 18 semifinalists in the state of […]

Thirteen Montgomery County Public School Students (MCPS) are recipients of full-tuition, four-year scholarships awarded by the Posse Foundation. According to a news release, the students were honored at a ceremony held at the Lincoln Theatre in Washington, DC.  Donna Redmond Jones, principal at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, says the Posse Program provides students with great […]

A new school year is about to begin in less than two weeks but not without Newsweek‘s annual list of the top public high schools in America for 2015. Five Montgomery County public schools made the list. Among them are: No. 110 Poolesville High School in Poolesville; No. 187 Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda; […]

Two Montgomery County Public Schools students were recognized this week as U.S. Presidential Scholars—the only public school students from Maryland to receive the honor and 21 MCPS students from six high schools were awarded National Merit $2,500 Scholarships financed by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. Patrick E. Cha, of Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, and Emily […]

Seven Montgomery County Public Schools seniors from five high schools have been awarded corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarships, MCPS announced Wednesday. These scholarships, which range from $500 to $10,000, are financed by corporations, company foundations, and other business organizations. The students are among 17 high school seniors in Maryland and more than 1,000 seniors nationwide to […]

This past weekend after covering an emotional schoolboy hardwood battle between Georgetown Prep and Landon Friday night I picked my cameras back up on Saturday and headed out to Germantown. Weekends such as this are fun for parents and their student athletes.  It all comes to a fine dénouement – for end of season events […]