Northwest High School refers to a high school running publicly and is based in Germantown, Maryland, United States. It provides educations from grades 9 to12. Northwest High School is regarded as the branch of the Montgomery County Public Schools.
As per the records of the year 2006, the total number of students it enrolled was calculated to be more than 2,000. After Seneca Valley High School, it is regarded as the second high school which is based in Germantown.
Northwest High School also provides the educational facilities to the little part of the city namely Gaithersburg. Jaguar is the mascot of the school and the color it selected was silver, black as well as white. The schools follow a motto as Learning is a life long process and make your education a priority. The establishment of the school was done in the year 1998 in the form of Public secondary.
The seat of the Principal of the Northwest High School is occupied by Sylvia Morrison. The school also led to the publication of a newspaper called The Jagwire. It also maintains its official website as http://northwesths.net/. In recent times it provides various honors as well as AP courses in addition with the Spanish, Chinese, French as well as Latin for foreign languages. The school also carried out the hosting of a four year program called The Ulysses Signature Program.
It enhances the interest of students towards the fields of Arts and Humanities; Math, Science and Technology; as well as Public Policy and Public Service. Northwest High School organizes various sports for the students such as Basketball, wrestling, hockey during winter season; Lacrosse, girl’s softball, boys volleyball etc during spring as well as the fall sports includes soccer, golf, field hockey, marching band and many more.
The important sports rivalries of the Northwest High School include Quince Orchard High School as well as Seneca Valley High School. The school also provides the facilities of various extracurricular activities and organizations like Treble Choir, Jewish Student Association, Students For Peace in the Middle East, Muslim Student Association (MSA), Mountain Biking Club, Chess Team and many more. The Battle for Germantown or The Battle for the King's Trophy refers to the yearly football game that took place between Northwest High School and Seneca Valley High School.
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