Prince George's County Public Schools

Prince George's County Public Schools

The Prince George's County Public Schools system is a large school district administered by the government of Prince George's County, Maryland, United States and is overseen by the Maryland State Department of Education...

(PGCPS) is a large school district administered by the government of Prince George's County, Maryland

Maryland

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, United States

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 and is overseen by the Maryland State Department of Education

Maryland State Department of Education

Maryland State Department of Education is a division of the state government of Maryland in the United States. The agency oversees public school districts. The agency is headquartered at 200 West Baltimore Street in Baltimore...

. With approximately 127,129 students enrolled for the 2009–2010 school year, the Prince George's County Public Schools system is the second largest school district in the state of Maryland; the third largest school district in both the Washington Metropolitan Area

Washington Metropolitan Area

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 and Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area

Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area

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; and it's the 18th largest school district in the nation. PGCPS operates at total of 196 schools which includes 127 elementary schools

Elementary school

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, 36 middle schools

Middle school

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, and 24 high schools

High school

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 with 8 special centers, 2 vocational centers, and the Howard B. Owens Science Center, serving students from Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 12. This total of 196 schools does not include public charter schools within the county. The district is headed by Superintendent

Superintendent (education)

In education in the United States, a superintendent is an individual who has executive oversight and administration rights, usually within an educational entity or organization....

 William R. Hite, Jr., Ed. D.

High schools

• Bladensburg High School
  Bladensburg High School
  Bladensburg High School is a secondary school located in Bladensburg, Maryland.The school, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Prince George's County Public Schools district....
  
  
• Bowie High School
  Bowie High School (Maryland)
  Bowie High School is a public high school in Bowie, Maryland. It is part of Prince George's County Public Schools.-Academics:Bowie High School has the second highest student SAT average in Prince George's County, and is rated second on The Washington Post's Advanced Placement Challenge Index....
  
  
• Central High School
• Crossland High School
  Crossland High School
  Crossland High School is a public secondary school located in Temple Hills, Maryland. The school serves about 2,000 students in grades 9 to 12 in the Prince George's County Public Schools system. Crossland is named after a prominent early Maryland family...
  
  
• Frederick Douglass High School
  Frederick Douglass High School (Prince George's County, Maryland)
  Frederick Douglass High School, established in 1934 as Marlboro High School and renamed Frederick Douglass High School in 1935, is a public high school located in Upper Marlboro, Maryland; is a part of the Prince George's County Public Schools system; and is named after the famous abolitionist,...
  
  
• DuVal High School
  DuVal High School
  DuVal Senior High School , is named in honor of Gabreil DuVal, a U.S. Representative from the second district of Maryland from November 11, 1794, to March 28, 1796, Chief Justice of the General Court of Maryland from 1796 to 1802, and First Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury from 1802 through 1811...
  
  
• Fairmont Heights High School
• Charles Herbert Flowers High School
  Charles Herbert Flowers High School
  Charles Herbert Flowers High School is located in Springdale of Prince George's County, Maryland. United States. The principal is Ms. Helena Nobles-Jones.Flowers High School's motto is "Mecca of Excellence."-History:...
  
  
• Forestville Military Academy
  Forestville Military Academy
  Forestville Military Academy is a military high school located in Forestville, a section of unincorporated Prince George's County, Maryland, United States....
  
  
• Friendly High School
  Friendly High School
  Friendly High School is a public high school in unincorporated Friendly, Maryland in Prince George's County, a county in the state of Maryland in the United States of America...
  
  
• Gwynn Park High School
  Gwynn Park High School
  Gwynn Park High School is in Prince George's County, Maryland, a suburban area near the United States capital of Washington D.C..- Sports :The school has won state championships in boys basketball in 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1980, 1983, 1987, 1988; girls basketball in 1974, 2002, 2003,...
  
  
• High Point High School
  High Point High School
  High Point High School is a high school located in Beltsville, an unincorporated section of Prince George's County, Maryland, United States of America, and built on the highest point in Prince George's County....
  
  
• Largo High School
  Largo High School (Maryland)
  Largo High School or LHS is located near Largo in the unincorporated Largo section of Prince George's County, Maryland. It is operated by the Prince George's County Public Schools system....
  
  
• Laurel High School
  Laurel High School (Laurel, Maryland)
  Laurel High School is a public high school located in Laurel, Maryland, and is the oldest school in the Prince George's County Public Schools system. Founded in 1899 with an enrollment of 59 students and four teachers, the original school building is now the Phelps Community Center in Laurel...
  
  
• Northwestern High School
  Northwestern High School (Hyattsville, Maryland)
  Northwestern High School , established in 1951, is a public comprehensive secondary school located in Hyattsville, Maryland in Prince George's County, less than a mile from the internationally known University of Maryland, College Park. It is part of the Prince George's County Public Schools system...
  
  
• Oxon Hill High School
  Oxon Hill High School
  Oxon Hill High School is a public senior high school located in Oxon Hill, an unincorporated area in Prince George's County, Maryland, and a suburb of Washington, D.C...
  
  
• Parkdale High School
  Parkdale High School
  Parkdale High School or PHS is a public magnet high school located at 6001 Good Luck Road, Riverdale, Maryland 20737. The principal is Mrs. Cheryl Logan. The September 2009 enrollment is approximately 2,172-students in grades nine through twelve. Parkdale's schools hours are from 7:45am until...
  
  
• Potomac High School
  Potomac High School (Maryland)
  Potomac High School is a public high school located at 5211 Boydell Avenue, Oxon Hill, Maryland 20745. The principal is Robynne W. Prince. The approximate enrollment as of August 2010 stands at 1,216-students in grades nine through twelve. The school hours are from 7:45am to 2:25pm, and Potomac...
  
  
• Eleanor Roosevelt High School
  Eleanor Roosevelt High School (Greenbelt, Maryland)
  Eleanor Roosevelt High School , is a Maryland public magnet high school specializing in science, mathematics, technology, and engineering. The school was established in 1978 at its current location in Greenbelt, Maryland and is part of the Prince George's County Public Schools system...
  
  
• Suitland High School
  Suitland High School
  Suitland High School is a public magnet high school located at 5200 Silver Hill Road, Forestville, Maryland 20747, long regarded for its Visual and Performing Arts magnet program...
  
  
• Surrattsville High School
  Surrattsville High School
  Surrattsville High School or SHS is a public high school located in Clinton, Maryland and is a part of the Prince George's County Public School System in Prince George's County, Maryland. The school educates about 1,100 children and teenagers in grades 9 through 12...
  
  
• Dr. Henry A. Wise, Jr. High School
  Dr. Henry A. Wise, Jr. High School
  Dr. Henry A. Wise Jr. High School is a public high school which opened its doors to students for the very first time in the Fall of 2006. Wise was constructed to relieve overcrowding in several Southern-area high schools, mainly Frederick Douglass High School...
  
  

Middle schools

• Buck Lodge Middle School
• Charles Carroll Middle School
  Charles Carroll Middle School
  Charles Carroll Middle School, is an intermediate school located in New Carrollton, Maryland. It is a part of the Prince George's County Public Schools district....
  
  
• Stephen Decatur Middle School and Community Center
  Stephen Decatur Middle School
  Stephen Decatur Middle School is a Talented and Gifted magnet middle school located in Clinton, Maryland and is part of the Prince George's County Public Schools system in the USA. It contains approximately 974 students in grades 6 through 8...
  
  
• Drew-Freeman Middle School
• Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School
• Benjamin D. Foulois Creative and Performing Arts Academy
• G. James Gholson Middle School
• Robert Goddard French Immersion School
• Robert Goddard Montessori School
  Robert Goddard Montessori
  Robert Goddard Montessori is a Montessori school in Seabrook, Maryland. Its enrollment is around 600 students, from Pre-K to eighth grade. It teaches from the Montessori method, developed by Maria Montessori. It is a registered Green School in the state of Maryland...
  
  
• Isaac J. Gourdine Middle School
• Greenbelt Middle School
• Gwynn Park Middle School
• John Hanson French Immersion School
• John Hanson Montessori School
• Hyattsville Middle School
• Thomas Johnson Middle School
• Dr. Ernest Everett Just Middle School
• Kenmoor Middle School
• Kettering Middle School
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School
• James Madison Middle School
• Thurgood G. Marshall Middle School
• Samuel Ogle Middle School
• Nicholas Orem Middle School
  Nicholas Orem Middle School
  Nicholas Orem Middle School is a public middle school located in Hyattsville, Maryland in Prince George's County. It is part of the Prince George's County Public Schools system...
  
  
• Oxon Hill Middle School
• Edgar Allan Poe Academy
• Thomas G. Pullen Creative and Performing Arts Magnet School
• Benjamin Stoddert Middle School
• Benjamin Tasker Middle School
• Walker Mill Middle School
• William Wirt Middle School

Combined K-8 schools

• The Accokeek Academy
• Beltsville Academy
• William W. Hall Academy
• Andrew Jackson Academy
• Samuel P. Massie Academy

Elementary schools

• Adelphi Elementary School
• Allenwood Elementary School
• Apple Grove Elementary School
• Ardmore Elementary School
• Arrowhead Elementary School
• Avalon Elementary School
• Baden Elementary School and Community Center
• Barack Obama
  Barack Obama
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   Elementary School (Opening August 2010)
• Barnaby Manor Elementary School
• John H. Bayne Elementary School
• Beacon Heights Elementary School
• William Beanes
  William Beanes
  William Beanes was a medical doctor in the American Colonial Period.-Early life:Beanes was the third generation of the same name and the fourth generation American. He was born near Croome in Prince George's County, Maryland. Little is known of his childhood except that he is of Scottish descent...
  
   Elementary School and Community Center
• Berwyn Heights Elementary School
• Bladensburg Elementary School
• Bond Mill Elementary School
• Bradbury Heights Elementary School
• Brandywine Elementary
• Doswell E. Brooks Elementary School
• Calverton Elementary School
• Capitol Heights Elementary School
• Carmody Hills Elementary School
• Carole Highlands Elementary School
• Carrollton Elementary School
• Samuel Chase
  Samuel Chase
  Samuel Chase was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court and earlier was a signatory to the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Maryland. Early in life, Chase was a "firebrand" states-righter and revolutionary...
  
   Elementary School
• Cesar Chavez
  César Chávez
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   Elementary School
• Cherokee Lane Elementary School
• Chillum Elementary School
• Thomas Claggett Elemenetary School
• Clinton Grove Elementary School
• Columbia Park Elementary School and Community Center
• Concord Elementary School
• Cool Spring Elementary School
• Cooper Lane Elementary School
• Deerfield Run Elementary School and Community Center
• J. Frank Dent Elementary School
• District Heights Elementary School
• Dodge Park Elementary School
• Francis T. Evans
  Francis T. Evans
  Francis Thomas Evans, Sr. was a pioneer aviator.-Biography:He was born in Delaware, Ohio on June 3, 1886. He was a United States Marine Corps aviator awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in the European theater of World War I...
  
   Elementary School
• Flintstone Elementary School
• Forest Heights Elementary School
• Fort Foote Elementary School
• Fort Washington Forest Elementary School
• Benjamin D. Foulois Creative and Performing Arts Academy
• Robert Frost
  Robert Frost
  Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and...
  
   Elementary School
• Gaywood Elementary School
• Glassmanor Elementary School and Community Center
• Glenarden Woods Elementary School
• Glenn Dale Elementary School
• Glenridge Elementary School
• Robert Goddard French Immersion School
• Robert Goddard Montessori School
  Robert Goddard Montessori
  Robert Goddard Montessori is a Montessori school in Seabrook, Maryland. Its enrollment is around 600 students, from Pre-K to eighth grade. It teaches from the Montessori method, developed by Maria Montessori. It is a registered Green School in the state of Maryland...
  
  
• Robert R. Gray Elementary School
• Greenbelt Elementary School
• James H. Harrison Elementary School
• Heather Hills Elementary School
• High Bridge Elementary School
• Highland Park Elementary School
• Hillcrest Heights Elementary School
• Hollywood Elementary School
• Hyattsville Elementary School
• Indian Queen Elementary School and Community Center
• Mary Harris "Mother" Jones" Elementary School
• Kenilworth Elementary School
• Kenmoor Elementary School
• Kettering Elementary School
• Kingsford Elementary School
• Lake Arbor Elementary School
• Lamont Elementary School
• Langley Park-McCormick Elementary School
• Laurel Elementary School
• Lewisdale Elementary School
  Lewisdale Elementary School
  Lewisdale Elementary School is a public elementary school located in Hyattsville, Maryland. Grade levels range from Pre-kindergarten through fifth grade...
  
  
• Longfields Elementary School
• Magnolia Elementary School
• Marlton Elementary School
• Mattaponi Elementary School
• Melwood Elementary School
• Montpelier Elementary School
• Mount Rainier Elementary School
• North Forestville Elementary School
• Northview Elementary School
• Oakcrest Elementary School
• Oaklands Elementary School
• Overlook Elementary School
• Oxon Hill Elementary School
• William Paca
  William Paca
  William Paca was a signatory to the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Maryland, and later Governor of Maryland and a United States federal judge.-Early life:...
  
   Elementary School
• Paint Branch Elementary School
• Panorama Elementary School
• Rosa L. Parks
  Rosa Parks
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   Elementary School
• Patuxent Elementary School
• Perrywood Elementary School
• Pointer Ridge Elementary School
• Port Towns Elementary School
• Potomac Landing Elementary School and Community Center
• Princeton Elementary School
• James Ryder Randall
  James Ryder Randall
  James Ryder Randall was an American journalist and poet. He is best remembered as the author of "Maryland, My Maryland".-Biography:Randall was born on January 1, 1839 in Baltimore, Maryland....
  
   Elementary School
• Catherine T. Reed Elementary School
• Ridgecrest Elementary School
• Riverdale Elementary School
• Rockledge Elementary School
• Rogers Heights Elementary School
• Rosaryville Elementary School
• Rose Valley Elementary School
• Scotchtown Hills Elementary School
• Seabrook Elementary School
• Seat Pleasant Elementary School
• Skyline Elementary School
• Springhill Lake Elementary School
• Suitland Elementary School
• Tayac Elementary School
• Templeton Elementary School
• Tulip Grove Elementary School
• University Park Elementary School
• Valley View Elementary School
• Vansville Elementary School and Community Center
• Waldon Woods Elementary School
• Whitehall Elementary School
• Phyllis E. Williams Elementary School
• Woodmore Elementary School
• Woodridge Elementary School
• Judge Sylvania W. Woods, Sr. Elementary School
• Yorktown Elementary School

Magnet schools

Magnet schools provide a wide range of special or unique subjects, activities and/or learning opportunities, as an enhancement to the Prince George's County Public Schools comprehensive programs.

• The Accokeek Academy
• Berwyn Heights Elementary School
• Capitol Heights Elementary School
• Glenarden Woods Elementary School
• Heather Hills Elementary School
• Kenmoor Elementary School
• Longfields Elementary School
• Oakcrest Elementary School
• Valley View Elementary School
• Stephen Decatur Middle School and Community Center
  Stephen Decatur Middle School
  Stephen Decatur Middle School is a Talented and Gifted magnet middle school located in Clinton, Maryland and is part of the Prince George's County Public Schools system in the USA. It contains approximately 974 students in grades 6 through 8...
  
  
• Benjamin D. Foulois Creative and Performing Arts Academy
• Robert Goddard French Immersion School
• Robert Goddard Montessori School
  Robert Goddard Montessori
  Robert Goddard Montessori is a Montessori school in Seabrook, Maryland. Its enrollment is around 600 students, from Pre-K to eighth grade. It teaches from the Montessori method, developed by Maria Montessori. It is a registered Green School in the state of Maryland...
  
  
• John Hanson French Immersion School
• John Hanson Montessori School
• Hyattsville Middle School
• Kenmoor Middle School
• Thomas G. Pullen Creative and Performing Arts Magnet School
• Walker Mill Middle School
• Bladensburg High School
  Bladensburg High School
  Bladensburg High School is a secondary school located in Bladensburg, Maryland.The school, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Prince George's County Public Schools district....
  
  
• Central High School
• Crossland High School
  Crossland High School
  Crossland High School is a public secondary school located in Temple Hills, Maryland. The school serves about 2,000 students in grades 9 to 12 in the Prince George's County Public Schools system. Crossland is named after a prominent early Maryland family...
  
  
• Fairmont Heights High School
• Charles Herbert Flowers High School
  Charles Herbert Flowers High School
  Charles Herbert Flowers High School is located in Springdale of Prince George's County, Maryland. United States. The principal is Ms. Helena Nobles-Jones.Flowers High School's motto is "Mecca of Excellence."-History:...
  
  
• Largo High School
  Largo High School (Maryland)
  Largo High School or LHS is located near Largo in the unincorporated Largo section of Prince George's County, Maryland. It is operated by the Prince George's County Public Schools system....
  
  
• Laurel High School
  Laurel High School (Laurel, Maryland)
  Laurel High School is a public high school located in Laurel, Maryland, and is the oldest school in the Prince George's County Public Schools system. Founded in 1899 with an enrollment of 59 students and four teachers, the original school building is now the Phelps Community Center in Laurel...
  
  
• Oxon Hill High School
  Oxon Hill High School
  Oxon Hill High School is a public senior high school located in Oxon Hill, an unincorporated area in Prince George's County, Maryland, and a suburb of Washington, D.C...
  
  
• Parkdale High School
  Parkdale High School
  Parkdale High School or PHS is a public magnet high school located at 6001 Good Luck Road, Riverdale, Maryland 20737. The principal is Mrs. Cheryl Logan. The September 2009 enrollment is approximately 2,172-students in grades nine through twelve. Parkdale's schools hours are from 7:45am until...
  
  
• Eleanor Roosevelt High School
  Eleanor Roosevelt High School (Greenbelt, Maryland)
  Eleanor Roosevelt High School , is a Maryland public magnet high school specializing in science, mathematics, technology, and engineering. The school was established in 1978 at its current location in Greenbelt, Maryland and is part of the Prince George's County Public Schools system...
  
  
• Suitland High School
  Suitland High School
  Suitland High School is a public magnet high school located at 5200 Silver Hill Road, Forestville, Maryland 20747, long regarded for its Visual and Performing Arts magnet program...
  
  
• Dr. Henry A. Wise, Jr. High School
  Dr. Henry A. Wise, Jr. High School
  Dr. Henry A. Wise Jr. High School is a public high school which opened its doors to students for the very first time in the Fall of 2006. Wise was constructed to relieve overcrowding in several Southern-area high schools, mainly Frederick Douglass High School...
  
  

Private schools

• Alternative High School
• The Beddow High School
• Bishop McNamara High School
  Bishop McNamara High School
  Bishop McNamara High School, a college preparatory school in the Holy Cross tradition, is in Forestville, Maryland. It is part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington.-History:...
  
  
• Capitol Christian Academy
• Croom Vocational School
• DeMatha Catholic High School
  DeMatha Catholic High School
  DeMatha Catholic High School, named after Saint John of Matha, is a four-year Catholic high school for young men located in Hyattsville, Maryland, USA. DeMatha is known for academic achievement, music, arts, service and athletics...
  
  
• Elizabeth Seton High School
  Elizabeth Seton High School
  Elizabeth Seton High School is a private, all-girls Roman Catholic high school in Bladensburg, Maryland. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington. Elizabeth Seton High School was incorporated March 15, 1957 and opened with an enrollment of 138 freshmen and a faculty of six...
  
  
• Florence Bertell Academy of Prince George's County
• Grace Brethren Christian School
• High Road Academy of Prince George's County
• High Road Upper School of Prince George's County
• Jericho Christian Academy
• Lanham Christian School
• Leary School
• New Hope Academy
  New Hope Academy
  New Hope Academy, which includes New Hope International High School, is an academically-oriented K–12 private school, certified by the Maryland State Department of Education and federally approved to enroll international F-1 students, with a fully licensed preschool program for ages 3–5 years...
  
  
• Queen Anne School
• Riverdale Baptist School
• St. Ann's High School
• St. Vincent Pallotti High School
  St. Vincent Pallotti High School
  St. Vincent Pallotti Preparatory High School, usually called Pallotti, is a private school located in eastern Laurel, Maryland. It was founded by the Pallottines in 1921 and is within in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington....
  
  
• Tall Oaks Vocational School

See also

• Prince George's County Public Schools
  Prince George's County Public Schools
  The Prince George's County Public Schools system is a large school district administered by the government of Prince George's County, Maryland, United States and is overseen by the Maryland State Department of Education...
  
  
• List of Prince George's County Public Schools Middle Schools
• Prince George's County Public Schools Magnet Programs
  Prince George's County Public Schools Magnet Programs
  Magnet Programs is an educational program within the Prince George's County Public Schools system in Maryland, United States. The programs provide a wide range of special or unique subjects, activities and/or learning opportunities as an enhancement to the Prince George's County Public...