| Northwest High School | |
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13501 Richter Farm Road , 20874 United States | |
| Coordinates | 39°09′06″N77°16′48″W / 39.151549°N 77.279963°W /39.151549; -77.279963 |
| Information | |
| Type | Publicsecondary |
| Established | 1998; 27 years ago (1998) |
| School district | Montgomery County Public Schools |
| Principal | Scott Smith |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 2,484 (2022-23) |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Colors | Black, silver, and white |
| Nickname | Jaguars |
| Rivals | Seneca Valley, Quince Orchard |
| Newspaper | The Jagwire |
| Website | www |
Northwest High School (NWHS) is apublichigh school inGermantown, Maryland. It is part of theMontgomery County Public Schools public school system. As of 2022, it enrolled 2,484 students. It is one of two high schools in Germantown, the other beingSeneca Valley High School, with which Northwest shares an athletic rivalry. The school also serves small sections of the cities ofGaithersburg andDarnestown.
The school was established in 1998, and completed an expansion project during the summer of 2006.
Northwest's schoolmascot is thejaguar and its colors are black, silver and white.
Northwest High School offers a number of honors andAdvanced Placement courses, along with courses inAmerican Sign Language (ASL),French andSpanish. The school has an average SAT score of 1129, above the national mean of 1050 yet below the county's average score of 1227.[1][2]
Northwest hosts the Ulysses Signature Program, a four-year research-based program in which students develop projects focused on one of four themes: arts andhumanities;public policy andpublic service; and/ormath, science and technology.[3] Students are recommended for the rigorous research program asfreshmen and remain in the program throughout theirsenior year.[4]
As of 2024, Northwest is the 20th-ranked highschool in Maryland and the 1059th-ranked school nationwide according toU.S News and World Report.[5]
Students attending Northwest come from parts ofGermantown,Boyds,Gaithersburg, andDarnestown, as well as very small portions ofPoolesville andPotomac.[9]
Northwest is fed by three area middle schools and eight area elementary schools in the following feeder patterns:
Elementary School Split Articulations:[10]
In November of 2019, the board of education approved boundaries that affected the following schools within the Northwest cluster:[11]
As of the 2023-24 school year, Northwest projects to be over-enrolled for the next 15 years with its current attendance zones.[10] To address these concerns, along with overutilization among other nearby schools, the county is conducting a boundary study for the newCrown HS,[12] which has an expected completion date of August 2027.[10]
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All teams have varsity and junior varsity teams with the exception of tennis, golf, swim and dive, indoor track and field, poms, and boys'/coed volleyball. JV lacrosse teams were added to Montgomery County athletics in 2008.
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Northwest High School has sports rivalries, particularly infootball, with neighboringSeneca Valley High School, andQuince Orchard High School. The annual football game between Northwest and Seneca Valley is known as "The Battle for the King's Trophy" or the "Battle for Germantown". The football rivalry with Quince Orchard is widely considered one of the best in the state, with each school winning three state titles.
Northwest High School has won a total of 31 state championships in team events, as well 67 individual state championships.[13]
| State championships | |||
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| Season | Sport | Number of championships | Year |
| Fall | Cross country, boys' | 2 | 2001, 2002 |
| Cross country, girls' | 2 | 2002, 2003 | |
| Football | 3 | 2004, 2013, 2014 | |
| Volleyball, girls' | 4 | 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 | |
| Winter | Cheerleading | 2 | 2007, 2008 |
| Indoor track, boys' | 5 | 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 | |
| Indoor track, girls' | 1 | 2011 | |
| Poms | 2 | 2002, 2005 | |
| Spring | Baseball | 2 | 2012, 2017 |
| Outdoor track, boys' | 5 | 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 | |
| Outdoor track, girls' | 2 | 2011, 2018 | |
| Softball | 1 | 2017 | |
| Total | 31 | ||
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