Your path to homeownership starts here!

Rockville and Bethesda School Guide

Rockville and Bethesda is home to many excellent schools that are sure to suit every educational need your family may have. The area offers superb public schools, private schools, colleges and universities. The Rockville and Bethesda community is dedicated to providing a safe and encouraging environment where all students can grow and achieve their goals on a daily basis.

Public Schools

Montgomery County's school system, located in the Washington D.C. suburbs, is the 16th largest in the United States. Ninety percent of our students graduate.

Core Values

• Every child can learn and succeed
• The pursuit of excellence is fundamental and unending
• An ethical school system requires fair treatment, honesty, openness, integrity, and respect
• A high-quality school system strives to be responsive and accountable to the customer.

Mission

• To provide a high-quality, world-class education that ensures success for every student through excellence in teaching and learning

Vision

• A high-quality education is the fundamental right of every child. All children will receive the respect, encouragement, and opportunities they need to build the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to be successful, contributing members of a global society.

System Goals

• Ensure success for every student
• Provide an effective instructional program
• Strengthen productive partnerships for education
• Create a positive work environment in a self-renewing organization
• Provide High-Quality Business Services that are Essential to the Educational Success of Students
• The county's 199 schools — 32 of them National Blue Ribbon schools — serve almost 138,000 students. More than 11,000 teachers instruct students from more than 161 countries.

For more information on Montgomery County Public Schools visit the official website by clicking here

For a complete list of schools within the MCPSD click here

Rockville and Bethesda Private Schools

Charles E Smith Jewish Day School
(The following information is sourced from http://www.cesjds.org. For this and more information, please follow the link.)

Thank you for visiting the web site of the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School. As you tour its pages, I hope you'll see in words and pictures our School's commitment to educational excellence, to a values-based environment, to Jewish learning and to pluralism and mutual respect. The varied General Studies curriculum and creative extra-curricular opportunities, as well as the breadth and depth of the Judaic and Hebrew curriculum, reflect the School's determination to understand and appreciate each student for who he or she is, and to partner with the student and family in creating an educational and spiritual journey. This journey helps our students become the best they can be and strengthens their understanding and enthusiasm for their role as part of the wider Jewish and American community.

As you peruse this site, you will see a K-12 curriculum in General and Judaic studies that challenges minds, nurtures souls and builds passion and self-confidence. For those of you who would like to learn more about the school, I hope that you will consider this web site a multi-faceted invitation to come and visit the facilities; meet the students, faculty and administration; and experience firsthand why the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School is nationally and internationally recognized as one of the finest Jewish and independent day schools. In the meantime, please enjoy Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School's home in cyberspace. I look forward to welcoming you to our Earth-based Rockville home sometime soon.

Green Acres School (PK-8)
(The following information is sourced from http://www.greenacres.org. For this and more information, please follow the link.)

Green Acres was founded in 1934 by parents and teachers who believed that children are naturally curious about their world and that they learn best in a comfortable, flexible environment. Inspired by the research of figures such as John Dewey of the University of Chicago and the Swiss developmental psychologist Jean Piaget, the group created a school that balanced children’s social, emotional, physical, and creative development in an atmosphere of intellectual challenge. They established an environment with small classes and a diverse student body, where the primary goal was to help children “learn to think and be creative in their thinking.”

Montrose Christian School (K-12)
(The following information is sourced from http://montrosechristian.org. For this and more information, please follow the link.)

Montrose Christian School is a diverse caring community, providing a Bible-based liberal arts education to equip our students to fulfill God’s purposes for their lives. As MCS accomplishes its mission, ultimately, we see Montrose Christian School impacting the world for the glory of God, one student at a time. Our school was established in 1977 to serve as a ministry of Montrose Baptist Church to provide a fully accredited Christian education for the community characterized by faithfulness to the Word of God and excellence in all that we do. We strive to continue this tradition, working to provide the best that we can for our school families.

St. Elizabeth Elementary School (K-8)
(The following information is sourced from http://www.stelizabethschoolmd.org/SchoolWeb/index.htm. For this and more information, please follow the link.)

The school was established in 1966.  The school is sponsored by St. Elizabeth Parish, and affiliated with St. Francis of Assisi Parish.  St. Elizabeth School is accredited by Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.

St. Elizabeth School is winner of the National Elementary School Recognition Program for Excellence, awarded by US Department of Education.

• Type of school: St. Elizabeth School is a Catholic elementary school for boys and girls, grades K-8.
• Faculty: Thirty-seven (37) lay professionals staff the school.  They are certified professionals with many advanced degrees.
• Enrollment: The school has a total enrollment of 511 students.
• Class Size: Twenty-five (25) to thirty (30) students per homeroom (maximum).

Norwood School (K-8)
(The following information is sourced from http://www.norwoodschool.org/home/index.aspx. For this and more information, please follow the link.)

Since its founding in 1952 under the direction of Frances Brandis Marsh, Norwood has grown and evolved from a co-educational primary school of forty students connected to an Episcopal parish church into its present configuration as an independent elementary and middle school of over 500 students on a large, suburban campus. Through years of growth and subsequent changes in leadership, the School has held fast to Frances Marsh’s original vision of a “happy place of learning for children … filled with art and music … where each child would feel supported and valued.” In short, Norwood is a school which seeks to achieve a healthy equilibrium between matters of the mind and matters of the heart, and which embraces both the qualities of constancy and renewal.

Stone Ridge School of the Sacred (PK-12)
(The following information is sourced from http://www.stoneridge.org. For this and more information, please follow the link.)

Stone Ridge is a Catholic, independent college preparatory school for girls, serving students from Pre-K–12, and co-ed for pre-kindergarten and kindergarten. The 35-acre, Bethesda, Maryland campus is an inspiring learning environment where students receive an outstanding academic experience rooted in the Goals of the Sacred Heart. Stone Ridge graduates are instilled with a sense of community and have a deep passion to make a difference in the world.

Founded in 1923 by the Society of the Sacred Heart, Stone Ridge is a member of the Network of Sacred Heart Schools with 21 school and affiliates in the United States and over 200 schools worldwide. As a member of this network, Stone Ridge offers an education that is marked by distinctive spirit and an emphasis on faith, intellect, awareness, community, and growth.

Stone Ridge's student body comes from a variety of religious, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds within a 50-mile radius of Bethesda. Stone Ridge is steeped in tradition yet employs the latest technology, techniques, and projects in the classroom. By uniting virtue with learning, Stone Ridge forges a foundation for today’s young women to succeed in tomorrow’s world.

Washington Waldorf School (pk-12)
(The following information is sourced from http://www.washingtonwaldorf.org. For this and more information, please follow the link.)

The Washington Waldorf School (WWS) is one of about 200 Waldorf Schools in the U.S. and more than 900 internationally. Waldorf education is one of the fastest growing non-sectarian, independent school movements in the world. Our school was founded as a grade school in 1969 in Washington, DC, and subsequently moved to its present six-acre campus in Bethesda, Maryland in 1981.

Our high school was added in 1984 and graduated its first class in 1988. The enrollment from pre-K through grade 12 is approximately 280. We are fully accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America. Our sports teams (baseball, basketball, cross country, soccer

For a complete list of private schools in Rockville, MD click here

Rockville and Bethesda Colleges/Universities

Montgomery College
(The following information is sourced from http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/rvhome. For this and more information, please follow the link.)

Rockville, MD
Opened in 1965 with an enrollment of 2,489, the Rockville Campus is now Montgomery College's largest, with an enrollment of 14,000 full- and part-time students. It is located just north of Washington, D.C., between Route 355 and Interstate 270, and is readily accessible by bus and the Metro rail system. More than 600 courses are now offered in more than 40 curricula.  People of all ages take classes at Rockville, and there is a diverse mix of cultures which contribute to the international flavor of this suburban campus.  Thousands of Continuing Education students also attend classes at Rockville, and additional tens of thousands of people come to this campus each year for art exhibitions, athletic events, concerts, conferences, lectures, movies, plays, and other events open to the public.

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
(The following information is sourced from http://www.usuhs.mil. For this and more information, please follow the link.)

The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences is a center of excellence for military and public health education and research. USU's programs are unique, as are our dedicated faculty, staff and students.
 
The university benefits tremendously from its extraordinary alumni who return to teach, conduct research and guide others in clinical care. These devoted professionals bring a wealth of experience gained in military treatment facilities throughout the U.S. and around the world, as well as in combat, on ships, in airborne intensive care units, amid natural disasters and among a multitude of cultures.