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PGCPS is the second-largest school district in Maryland, [6] the third-largest district in the Washington-Baltimore metropolitan area, [7] [8] the 18th-largest in the United States, and the nation's largest school district with a majority-black student population. Headquartered in Upper Marlboro, [9] PGCPS is the county's sole school district. [10]
PGCPS operates a total of 196 schools which includes 127 elementary schools, 36 middle schools, and 24 high schools with 8 special centers, 2 vocational centers, and the Howard B. Owens Science Center, serving students from Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 12
In September 2010, PGCPS officially held a ground-breaking ceremony for a new Greenbelt Middle School. The new school will be the third LEED-certified "green building" in Prince George's County, and have a capacity of 990 students. Greenbelt Middle School was scheduled to open in the fall of 2012.
On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will cross North America. A number of schools will be closed that day. Here's why schools are closing for the eclipse.
Before the start of the 2021-2022 PGCPS School Board voted on the policies. The bathroom policy caused a huge discussion between parents during the public comment period of the meeting and from the school board members. The board implemented a gender neutral bathroom policy as a way to welcome trans students into a comfortable facility. [24]
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Dr. Henry A. Wise Jr. High School is a public high school in unincorporated Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, with an Upper Marlboro postal address. [1] [2] A part of the Prince George's County Public Schools (PGCPS), it opened in the fall of 2006.
Circa 1964 PGCPS ended legalized racial segregation of schools. [8] When the late 1960s came, Douglass was a majority white high school because a lot of the black high school students were reassigned to schools closer to their houses. By 2000 Douglass returned to being majority black. [5] In the early 1980s the former Douglass High was razed.