Washington County Public Schools

HAGERSTOWN, MD (September 18, 2018) – Gabe Juedemann, a senior at Boonsboro High School, was named today as a National Merit Scholarship semifinalist. Gabe is one of 16,000 students nationwide who scored in the top percentile on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Students will compete for 7,500 scholarships worth more than $31 million that will be offered in the spring. Scholarship winners will be selected from a group of finalists, who will be announced in February.

HAGERSTOWN, MD (September 12, 2018) - Verizon Network Management and Control-Transport is currently addressing what it is calling a “higher level outage” that is affecting phone systems in Maryland and Pennsylvania, including Washington County Public Schools (WCPS). Incoming calls are not being received and staff cannot make outgoing calls. WCPS staff is using alternate methods of communication, such as cell phones, email and mobile applications to communicate with parents and community members when necessary.

Hagerstown, MD (September 6, 2018) - The Washington County Board of Education (BOE), at its September 4, 2018 business meeting, approved the first reading of proposed Policy JLIG, entitled "Student Sunscreen Use." 

The BOE's Policy Committee is seeking comments from the community on the proposed policy, which is displayed as a PDF under Documents to the right of this page. You may submit your comments on or before September 17, 2018, electronically to the members of the Committee and to the staff liaison to the Committee.  The e-mail addresses are as follows:

Hagerstown, MD (August 28, 2018)  - The 2018 results from the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) tests show improved performance from students in Washington County Public Schools (WCPS) in both Mathematics and English Language Arts. Student performance in grade levels 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 demonstrated growth in Mathematics and English Language Arts. On the high school level assessments, Algebra I scores increased from 2017 data while English 10 scores decreased slightly.

Hagerstown, MD (July 26, 2018) - The offices of the Maryland State Superintendent of Schools and Maryland Department of Health have issued reminders regarding school immunizations for the 2018-2019 school year. For students in kindergarten through fourth grade, two doses of Varicella vaccine are required prior to admittance to school. All students in seventh through eleventh grade are required to receive a single dose each of Tdap vaccine and Meningococcal (MCV4) before they can begin school.

Hagerstown, MD (July 19, 2018) - The Washington County Board of Education (BOE), at its July 17, 2018 business meeting, approved the first reading of proposed changes to Policy INB, entitled "Teaching About Controversial Issues (Political Activities)." 

Hagerstown, MD (July 19, 2018) - The Washington County Board of Education (BOE), at its July 17, 2018 business meeting, approved the first reading of proposed changes to Policy IKE, entitled "Promotion and Retention of Students." 

Hagerstown, MD (June 14, 2018) – WCPS Youth Apprenticeship Maryland Program held a check presentation event to celebrate the successful youth apprenticeship of Beacon Grace, LLC and the generosity of the FirstEnergy Foundation. Becky Willard, owner and CEO of Beacon Grace, LLC, a supply chain technical and professional consulting service located in Hagerstown Community College's Technical Innovation Center, has offered her apprentice, Casey Kelly, a 2018 Washington County Technical High Schoo graduate, and Hancock native, a permanent position at Beacon Grace once his appren

HAGERSTOWN, MD (June 6, 2018) – The summer meal program schedule and sites, along with the Meal Machine schedule, have been released by the Food and Nutrition Services office of Washington County Public Schools (WCPS). WCPS is operating six vehicles in the Meal Machine program this spring and summer, providing free meals for anyone 18 years of age and younger Monday through Friday from June 19 through August 24. Meal Machine times and locations are as follows:

Hagerstown, MD (May 23, 2018) - Washington County Public Schools (WCPS) is pleased to announce that students and parents/guardians now have access to the ParentVUE and StudentVUE applications. Teachers and school support staff have been entering grades and information over the last week, and significant progress has been made. It is anticipated that all updates will be completed by May 31. 

The following information was entered in Synergy from the time period impacted by the outage through May 16, when staff had access to add data: