Damascus High School

Damascus High School
Address
25921 Ridge Road Damascus, Maryland 20872 United States
Coordinates	39°16′56″N 77°12′38″W / 39.28222°N 77.21056°W / 39.28222; -77.21056Coordinates: 39°16′56″N 77°12′38″W / 39.28222°N 77.21056°W / 39.28222; -77.21056
Information
Type	Public secondary
Established	1950
School district	Montgomery County Public Schools
Principal	Jennifer Webster
Grades	9–12
Number of students	1336 (2012)
Campus	Rural
Color(s)	Green, white, and unofficially gold
Mascot	Swarmin' Hornets
Newspaper	The Buzz
Website	School website

Damascus High School is a high school located at 25921 Ridge Road in Damascus, an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. The school principal is Jennifer Webster. Its feeder schools are John T. Baker Middle School and Rocky Hill Middle School.

History

Damascus High School was built in 1950 (at 26,600 square feet) with major additions in 1951 (11,790 square feet), 1958 (21,339 square feet), 1963 (33,852 square feet), 1964 (30,297 square feet), 1971 (2,126 square feet), 1975 (40,017 square feet), 1977 (35,700 square feet) 1993 (32,892 square feet) and 2004 (1,373 square feet addition and 2,025 square feet (188.1 m²) of renovation of the original 1950 building). The building now totals 235,986 square feet (21,923.8 m²).

Athletics

Damascus High School has had some notable achievements, including:

Football - 8 state championships (1981, 1992, 1993, 1996, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2015)
Maryland Poms State Champions (1998, 2003, 2015)
Boys' cross country - 3 state championships (1961, 1965, 2009)
Girls' cross country - 1 state championship (1994)
Golf - 1 state championship (1993)
Volleyball - 1 state championship (2013)
Wrestling (tournament) - 4 state championships (1994, 1996, 1999, 2015)
Wrestling (dual) - 6 state championships (1995, 1999, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016)
Boys' basketball - 1 state championship (1949)
Boys' indoor track - 1 state championship (2009)
Girls' indoor track - 2 state championships (1997, 2011)
Baseball - 2 state championships (1998, 2000)
Softball - 3 state championships (1987, 1992, 1994)
Boys' track and field
Girls' track and field

Notable alumni

Christian M. M. Brady, Dean of the Schreyer Honors College, Penn State University
Joel Ross, NFL player
Brian Stelter, senior media correspondent for CNN
Kevin Thompson, NFL player

External links

Damascus High School

Montgomery County Public Schools

Consortiums	DCC NEC

High Schools	Albert Einstein Bethesda-Chevy Chase Blake Winston Churchill Clarksburg Damascus Gaithersburg Walter Johnson John F. Kennedy Magruder Montgomery Blair Northwest Northwood Paint Branch Poolesville Quince Orchard Richard Montgomery Rockville Seneca Valley Sherwood Springbrook Wootton Whitman Watkins Mill Wheaton

Technical High Schools	Edison

Closed High Schools	Robert E. Peary Charles W. Woodward

Middle Schools	A. Mario Loiederman Argyle Benjamin Banneker Briggs Chaney Cabin John Col. E. Brooke Lee Earle B. Wood Eastern Forest Oak Francis Scott Key Gaithersburg Herbert Hoover John Poole John T. Baker Julius West Kingsview Lakelands Park Martin Luther King, Jr. Montgomery Village Neelsville Newport Mill North Bethesda Parkland Thomas W. Pyle Redland Ridgeview Robert Frost Roberto W. Clemente Rocky Hill Rosa M. Parks Shady Grove Silver Spring International Sligo Takoma Park Tilden Westland White Oak William Farquhar

Primary Schools	List of 131 Schools

Alternative Schools and Special Education	Alternative Programs Carl Sandburg Center Emory Grove Center Fleet Street Glenmont Hadley Farms Longview Mark Twain McKenney Hills Regional Institute For Children & Adolescents Rock Terrace Stephen Knolls

Montgomery County, Maryland high schools

Montgomery County Public Schools

Zoned schools	Albert Einstein Bethesda-Chevy Chase Blake Clarksburg Damascus Gaithersburg John F. Kennedy Magruder Montgomery Blair Northwest Northwood Paint Branch Poolesville Quince Orchard Richard Montgomery Rockville Seneca Valley Sherwood Thomas Sprigg Wootton Walt Whitman Walter Johnson Watkins Mill Wheaton Winston Churchill

Magnet/alternative schools	Thomas Edison High School of Technology

Independent schools

Secular private	Barrie School Bullis School German School Washington, D.C. Holton-Arms School Landon School Lycée Rochambeau Nora School

Religious	Academy of the Holy Cross Avalon School Brookewood School Connelly School of the Holy Child Don Bosco Cristo Rey High School Georgetown Preparatory School The Heights School Our Lady of Good Counsel High School St. Andrew's Episcopal School Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart

This list is incomplete.

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