Take a minute to recognize the achievements of our students for the 2024-2025 school year!

  • Congratulations to the PHS Debate Team!!  At their most recent meet against all MCPS schools, they ended the 22 rounds of debate with an 18-4 record, with many pairs ending the night with a perfect record.  Good luck to these Falcons at their next meet on November 20.

  • Congratulations to Anthony and Christian Yoon on the publication of their children’s book, A Better Home, which focuses on environmental sustainability and accountability.  They were recently recognized with a Silver Medal in the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards for “Best Book by Youth” and Honorable Mentions in two categories (Green Books and Environmental and Youth Author Fiction) in the 2024 Purple Dragonfly Awards.  You can check out their website and a professional book review to learn more about their work.  

  • Poolesville High School has been recognized by College Board as a Platinum school, the highest level of the AP Honor Roll. Specifically, 87% of our current senior class will experience at least one AP class before they graduate, 77% of our seniors have earned a score (3) that can qualify for college credit in at least one class, and 67% of our seniors have taken five AP classes or more during their time at Poolesville. Moreover, our school has also been recognized with the AP Access Award for “providing all students the chance to participate in Advanced Placement classes, including students  of underrepresented populations.”

  • Poolesville High School has been named the Number 1 Best Public High School in Maryland in the annual Niche Best Public High Schools in Maryland rankings for 2025.  Through their data collection process, PHS was assigned an overall grade of A+.  BIG congratulations to all the students, staff members, families, and community support that make Poolesville High School a wonderful place for teaching and learning!  Our Falcons truly Fly High!

  • Congratulations to Jacob Lee!  Jacob’s video has been selected as one of 30 finalists in this year’s Breakthrough Junior Challenge, an annual global science video competition for high school students all over the world.  If Jacob’s video wins the competition, he and PHS will be honored with financial prizes.  Please watch and “like” Jacob’s video; the video with the most “likes” as of September 20 wins!  Great job, Jacob.

  • Congratulations to Neel Bhattacharyya and Jay Wakhede, as well as Mr. Kingman.  With Mr. Kingman’s support, Neel and Jay’s manuscript, “AntiBloom: A Novel Deep Learning-Powered Device to Predict Harmful Algal Blooms” was published in The Journal of Student Research.  

  • Senior Spread - The Poolesville Pulse: Our student journalists have published their Senior Spread to celebrate the next steps of our Class of 2024.  You can follow the link to read the Class of 2024: Future Plans from The Poolesville Pulse.  Great work, Falcons, and congratulations to the Class of 2024!

  • Please see below for past years Student Success

Staff Success

Click to see Super Student Successes for the 2023-2024, 2022-2023, 2020-2021, 2019-2020, 2018-2019, 2017-2018, 2016-2017, 2015-2016, 2014-2015, 2013-2014, 2012-2013, 2011-2012 school years.