Anonymous
Post 02/14/2024 22:21     Subject: Please share your experience with Rockville High School
Anonymous wrote:Question for the op—what activities is your kid into? The music program is great. The theater department is not stellar. Sports teams vary greatly. What clubs may your kid be into?


OP here- basketball for sure and would like to find another extracurricular or sport.
Anonymous
Post 02/14/2024 22:06     Subject: Please share your experience with Rockville High School
Anonymous wrote:Question for the op—what activities is your kid into? The music program is great. The theater department is not stellar. Sports teams vary greatly. What clubs may your kid be into?



Agree that the music program is wonderful. Sports varies, though the Athletic Director is great with communication. Debate is lackluster.
Anonymous
Post 02/14/2024 22:00     Subject: Please share your experience with Rockville High School
Question for the op—what activities is your kid into? The music program is great. The theater department is not stellar. Sports teams vary greatly. What clubs may your kid be into?

Anonymous
Post 02/14/2024 21:30     Subject: Please share your experience with Rockville High School
Anonymous wrote:Have a senior who has had a good experience. As others said, it’s small, which we like. My kid has had good teachers. He takes a lot of AP and IB classes and has done well at on the exams, which I take to mean the teaching is solid. One downside of a smaller school is having fewer classes to choose from and somewhat tougher scheduling, but we have managed to work it out.
Also, since I know this matters a lot to many, he has so far had good success with his college applications. I think he has done better than he might have if he were at a larger MCPS school, though that’s just a guess.


Can I ask where he wants to go to college?
Anonymous
Post 02/14/2024 21:21     Subject: Please share your experience with Rockville High School
OP- appreciate the feedback!
Anonymous
Post 02/14/2024 19:33     Subject: Please share your experience with Rockville High School
Have a senior who has had a good experience. As others said, it’s small, which we like. My kid has had good teachers. He takes a lot of AP and IB classes and has done well at on the exams, which I take to mean the teaching is solid. One downside of a smaller school is having fewer classes to choose from and somewhat tougher scheduling, but we have managed to work it out.
Also, since I know this matters a lot to many, he has so far had good success with his college applications. I think he has done better than he might have if he were at a larger MCPS school, though that’s just a guess.
Anonymous
Post 02/14/2024 17:25     Subject: Please share your experience with Rockville High School
We liked the small school vibe when we visited for the career path program info night.
Anonymous
Post 02/14/2024 17:01     Subject: Please share your experience with Rockville High School
Anonymous wrote:How is career PLTW program?

Whitman has this program and many students love it so I'd assume it's good at Rockville too. Some of the classes are challenging.
Anonymous
Post 02/14/2024 14:08     Subject: Please share your experience with Rockville High School
Anonymous wrote:Small. Super community-feel, for better or worse. Kind of stuck in a rut - not particularly open to new things, ideas. I would be looking elsewhere if my kids were zoned there, fwiw - and I work at a different MCPS high school.


You don’t work there and your kids don’t go there…how do you know they’re stuck in a rut? Can you give an example?
Anonymous
Post 02/14/2024 12:48     Subject: Please share your experience with Rockville High School
Anonymous wrote:Small. Super community-feel, for better or worse. Kind of stuck in a rut - not particularly open to new things, ideas. I would be looking elsewhere if my kids were zoned there, fwiw - and I work at a different MCPS high school.


It is small. Your kid can stand out at a small school, can actually get on the sports teams. Those are the benefits. Downsides is fewer clubs (though still plenty) and fewer class options (ie language is only French and Spanish). They have IB programs you can enter without having to apply.
Anonymous
Post 02/14/2024 12:46     Subject: Please share your experience with Rockville High School
Anonymous wrote:Good school but the new principal is not responsive and abrasive when she does respond.


I haven’t found this at all. The principal is responsive and committed to the students. She shows up at every game and every show and every event. They know she cares.

—RHS mom
Anonymous
Post 02/14/2024 12:28     Subject: Please share your experience with Rockville High School
How is career PLTW program?
Anonymous
Post 02/14/2024 11:43     Subject: Please share your experience with Rockville High School
Small. Super community-feel, for better or worse. Kind of stuck in a rut - not particularly open to new things, ideas. I would be looking elsewhere if my kids were zoned there, fwiw - and I work at a different MCPS high school.
Anonymous
Post 02/14/2024 11:14     Subject: Please share your experience with Rockville High School
Good school but the new principal is not responsive and abrasive when she does respond.
Anonymous
Post 02/14/2024 10:41     Subject: Please share your experience with Rockville High School
TIA for any info you have.