About Montgomery Blair High School

Montgomery Blair High School (MBHS) is a public high school located in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States, operated by Montgomery County Public Schools. The school’s sum enrollment of 3,200 makes it the largest public tall school in Montgomery County and Maryland as a whole.

The scholastic was named after Montgomery Blair, a lawyer who represented Dred Scott in his Supreme Court case, and cutting edge served as Postmaster General below President Abraham Lincoln. After launch in 1925 as Takoma Park-Silver Spring High School, the Blair say was adopted in 1935 bearing in mind the school moved to a location overlooking Sligo Creek at 313 Wayne Avenue. In 1998, the campus moved once more two miles (3 km) north to the Kay Tract, a long-vacant site adjoining the Capital Beltway, and the old-fashioned building was repurposed to home Silver Spring International Middle School and Sligo Creek Elementary School.

About 20% of the student body is part of one of two magnet programs: the Science, Math, and Computer Science Magnet, and the Communication Arts Program (CAP), which charisma students from both the Silver Spring Place and across Montgomery County. It is a aficionado of the National Consortium for Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science and Technology (NCSSSMST).

Prior to the 2010 U.S. Census the instructor was within the Silver Spring census-designated place, but as of 2015 it now resides in the Four Corners CDP.

Silver Spring is a census-designated place (CDP) in southeastern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, near Washington, D.C. Although officially unincorporated, in practice it is an edge city which had a population of 81,773 residents as of 2019. This makes it the fourth most populous place in Maryland, after Baltimore, Columbia, and Germantown, and the second most populous in Montgomery County after Germantown.

The downtown, located adjoining the northern tip of Washington, D.C., is the oldest and most urbanized allocation of the community. Since start a significant renaissance in 2004, many new mixed-use developments combining retail, residential, and office heavens have been built. Downtown is in turn amid several inner suburban residential neighborhoods located inside the Capital Beltway.

Silver Spring takes its broadcast from a mica-flecked spring discovered there in 1840 by Francis Preston Blair, who past bought much of the surrounding land. Acorn Park, south of downtown, is believed to be the site of the indigenous spring.