Academics
Montgomery Blair High School is one of the top schools in the nation. In 2010, MBHS was ranked by Newsweek as the eighth best public school in the state of Maryland, and as the 139th best public school nationwide. Because of its Science, Mathematics, and Computer Science Magnet Program and its Communication Arts Program, MBHS attracts students from across the entire county. Additionally, the school has an Honors Program and an Advanced Placement Program. The school is one of the few US high schools to have a .edu domain name, with its internet connection having gone live in the late 1980s. MBHS is home to the award winning print newspaper Silver Chips and online newspaper Silver Chips Online, which received the National Scholastic Press Association Online Pacemaker Award in 2004, 2005 and 2006. MBHS has a student television and radio production unit known as Blair Network Communications (BNC). BNC produces a daily announcement program called InfoFlow which airs at 9:00 on weekday mornings, along with other weekly programs. MBHS is also home to Silver Quill, the award-winning literary arts magazine which is designed by students and features student artwork and literature. Silver Quill is distributed with the school yearbook at the end of the school year.
Most of the school's approximately 3,000 students reside in nearby areas of Silver Spring. Several hundred other students commute by bus from areas throughout Montgomery County. The specialized programs, which were initially created as a single desegregation program, account for about 800 students within the school.
MBHS consists of two specialized programs, seven academies, and 15 academic departments, offering a diverse range of disciplines and courses.
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