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2100 Wootton Parkway , , Maryland 20850-3037 United States | |
Coordinates | 39°04′36″N77°11′02″W / 39.07661°N 77.18376°W |
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Type | Public secondary |
Established | 1970 |
School district | Montgomery County Public Schools |
NCES District ID | 2400480 [1] |
Educational authority | Maryland Department of Education |
School code | MD-15-150234 |
CEEB code | 210909 |
NCES School ID | 240048000934 [2] |
Principal | Douglas Nelson |
Faculty | 111.80 (on an FTE basis) [2] |
Grades | 9–12 |
Gender | Coeducational |
Enrollment | 1,911 [2] (2022-2023) |
• Grade 9 | 468 |
• Grade 10 | 477 |
• Grade 11 | 432 |
• Grade 12 | 534 |
Student to teacher ratio | 17.38:1 [2] |
Campus type | Small city [2] |
Color(s) | Red, white and blue |
Nickname | Patriots |
Rival | Winston Churchill High School |
USNWR ranking | 195 [3] |
Newspaper | Common Sense [4] |
Yearbook | Fife & Drum [5] |
Feeder schools | Cabin John Middle School Robert Frost Middle School |
Website | montgomeryschoolsmd |
Thomas S. Wootton High School or Wootton High School(WHS) is a public high school in Rockville, Maryland. Its namesake is Thomas S. Wootton, the founder of Montgomery County. The school was founded in 1970 and is part of the Montgomery County Public Schools system.
In 2019, Newsweek ranked Wootton's STEM program #160 in a nationwide survey of US high schools. [6] In 2022, U.S. News & World Report ranked Wootton #167 nationally amongst high school. [3] As of 2024, Wooton ranks 195th nationally and 4th in Maryland. [7]
Wootton students average a score of 1288 on the SAT, with 634 on verbal and 654 on math. [8]
In November 2001, President George W. Bush visited Wootton and signed the congressional bill officially recognizing "Veterans Awareness Week", which takes place the week before Veteran's Day. [9]
In 2015, school principal Michael Doran was found dead in his Bethesda, Maryland, apartment. [10] A memorial service was held at Wootton two days later. [11] In 2017, a bridge near the high school and its auditorium was named in Doran's honor. [12]
On April 18, 2024, an 18-year-old trans student by the name of Andrea Ye was arrested by the Montgomery County Police Department for shooting threats made against the school. The FBI contacted the MCPD, after which they proceeded to obtain a search warrant to investigate her home, where they discovered violent drawings and documents relating to mass violence, including a 129-page long manifesto, containing numerous threats of violence against the student population and staff of Wootton High School. [13] Authorities say that Ye, a local resident at the time, had a struggling past when he was sent to the hospital in December 2022 for similar threats as well as homicidal and suicidal thoughts, but was still preoccupied after being released the following month. [14]
On October 9, 2020, former football coach Christopher Papadopolous was sentenced to 18 months in jail with 5 years of probation with his addition to the Maryland sex offender registry. Christopher Papadopolous pleaded guilty to one count of sexual abuse of a minor and one count of fourth-degree sex offense. These charges stemmed from his sexual assault of several 17 year old minors in his home in Gaithersburg. [15]
On November 2, 2021, a report of a sexual assault occurring in the school's locker room was received by Montgomery County Police. Members of the school's varsity team were allegedly involved in this in incident. Several students and staff members were interviewed in an investigation with officers from the police department's Special Victims Investigation Division. However, the investigation yielded no evidence of an occurrence of a sexual assault. [16]
Its infrastructure is aging, a cause of concern for many students and teachers alike. It was found to have lead in its water, but those issues have not been fixed as of 2018. [17] However, Montgomery County Public School Student Member of the Board candidates of 2023 are promising to fix this. [18]
Most students attending Wootton live in Rockville, with others residing in Gaithersburg, Potomac, Travilah, and North Potomac.
Wootton feeds from two middle schools and six elementary schools: [19]
Wootton is one of the schools in the scope for the new Crown High School, [20] which has an expected completion date of August 2027. [19]
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White | Asian | Black | Hispanic | Two or More Races | American Indian/Alaska Native |
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711 | 732 | 224 | 157 | 80 | 4 |
During the 2022–2023 school year, the school's racial composition was 37.3% white, 38.3% Asian, 11.8% Black, and 8.2% Hispanic. [8] Multiracial students made up less than 5% of the student body, as did Native and Pacific Islander American students. [8] The overall size of the student body was 1,911. [8]
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