Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School
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| Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School (B-CC) |
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| Established | 1926 |
| Type | Public Secondary |
| Principal | Sean Bulson |
| Students | 1,675 |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Location | Bethesda, Maryland, USA |
| District | Montgomery County Public Schools |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Colors | Blue and Gold |
| Mascot | Baron |
| Yearbook | The Pine Tree |
| Newspaper | The Tattler |
| Website | Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School |
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School is a Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, public school named for two of the towns it serves along with Kensington and Silver Spring, Maryland. It is located at 4301 East-West Highway, in Bethesda, an unincorporated community in Montgomery County.
Bethesda-Chevy Chase is a part of Montgomery County Public Schools.
The school serves the Chevy Chase area and some areas considered to be "Bethesda." Several municipalities, including the towns of Chevy Chase, Chevy Chase View, Chevy Chase Village, and Somerset, and the villages of Chevy Chase Section Three, Chevy Chase Section Five, Martin's Additions, and North Chevy Chase.
In 2005 the school was ranked 29 in Newsweek Magazine's top 1000 High Schools in the U.S., and ranked 34th in the 2006 edition of the list.
Begun as a two-story, 14-room facility on Wilson Lane, B-CC High School opened in its current location on East-West Highway in 1935. New buildings or additions to existing buildings were constructed in 1937, 1952, 1959, 1966, 1970, and 1976.
Then, in the summer of 1994, parents, teachers, administrators, business people, and other supporters of B-CC High School formed the Community Coalition for Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School . Its charge was to re-engineer and refocus the high school in an increasingly urbanized and cosmopolitan area. CC-B-CC representatives were encouraged to think broadly and innovatively to create programs that would lead B-CC High School and Montgomery County Public Schools into the next century.
Because of this effort, in February 2002, B-CC High School re-opened its doors after a two-and-a-half year, multi-million dollar, comprehensive modernization that, among other things, combined the historic 1935 and 1937 structures into one building.
The school now boasts 70 classrooms (67 regular classrooms and 3 special or alternative education classrooms), a media center with 30 computer workstations and TV studio and media production facilities, a greenhouse, a music laboratory and choral room, 2 gymnasiums and a weight training room, a 900-seat auditorium, and a cafeteria that serves breakfast and lunch. B-CC also has two "firsts" among Montgomery County Public Schools — a Cyber Café, opened in March 2003, and a state-of-the-art Language Lab, installed in the summer of 2004.
The Cyber Café and the Language Lab resulted from two major initiatives launched by the Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School Educational Foundation. Founded in 1996 by a group of parents, alumni, teachers, and business and civic leaders in the B-CC community, the Foundation raises funds for projects that further the tradition of excellence for students at B-CC, now and in the future.
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[edit] Administrators
- Principal: Sean Bulson
- Assistant Principal: Ms. Karen Lockard
- Assistant Principal: Ms. Angela Kessler
- Student Support Specialist: Ms. Irina Ivasovic LaGrange
Student Government:
- President: Tommy Kramer
- Vice President: Patrick Eagan-Van Oreo
- Treasurer: Johnathan "Ernie" Batselos
- Corresponding Secretary: Grace Ambrose
- Recording Secretary: Kate Holley
- Parliamentarian: Avishek Panth
[edit] Notable staff
- Colman McCarthy, peace studies teacher
[edit] Notable alumni
Notable alumni of B-CC and those who attended the school for a time include:
- Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl with a Pearl Earring
- Neal Potter, County Executive of Montgomery County, 1990-1994.
- Daniel Stern, comic actor who played one of the burglars in Home Alone
- Laura Hillenbrand, author of Seabiscuit: An American Legend
- Jonathan I. Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems
- Tommy Davidson, comedian and part of the cast of the TV show In Living Color
- Joe Haldeman, Author of "Forever War"
[edit] Academics
B-CC offers a variety of educational programs including the Advanced Placement Program and the International Baccalaureate Program to its students.
In the Class of 2005, over 10% of the student body matriculated at Top 25 schools, including every Ivy League college.
[edit] Theatre Department
B-CC is a GRAMMY foundation signature school. This past year Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School won the Maryland State Theatre Society's award for best musical for its production of Urinetown.
[edit] Sports
Fall
- Football
- Girl's soccer
- Boy's soccer
- Girl's Field hockey (The girls' field hockey team won nine consecutive state championships starting in the mid-1990s, a national record.)
- Girl's Volleyball
- Girl's Tennis
- Cross Country
- Cheerleading
- Golf
- Poms
Winter
- Girl's Basketball
- Boy's Basketball
- Indoor Track and Field
- Swimming and diving
- Cheerleading
- Wrestling
- Chess Team (One of the top teams in the state)
Spring
- Girl's Lacrosse
- Boy's Lacrosse
- Boys Tennis
- Girls Tennis
- Baseball
- Gymnastics
- Outdoor Track and Field
- Poms
- Softball
- Boy's Volleyball
- Co-ed Volleyball
Club Sports
- Chess Club
- Ice Hockey
- Crew (Although only a club sport, the Crew team is the largest team by participation, with over 80 members.)
- Rugby
- Ultimate Frisbee
- Squash
[edit] Feeder Schools
- Westland Middle School (6-8)
- Bethesda ES (K-5)
- Chevy Chase ES (3-6)
- North Chevy Chase ES (3-6)
- Rock Creek Forest ES (PreK-5)
- Rosemary Hills ES (PreK-2)
- Somerset ES (K-5)
- Westbrook ES (K-5)
