Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School (B-CC) is a public high school in Montgomery County, Maryland. It is named for two of the towns it serves; it also serves Kensington and Silver Spring. It is located at 4301 East-West Highway, in Bethesda. Bethesda-Chevy Chase is within the Montgomery County Public Schools system. The school serves the Chevy Chase and Bethesda areas including the towns of Chevy Chase, Chevy Chase View, Chevy Chase Village, and Somerset; and the villages of Chevy Chase Section Three, Chevy Chase Section Five, Martin's Additions and North Chevy Chase. It also serves small populations in Silver Spring and Kensington.

Schools within the Bethesda-Chevy Chase cluster

History

B-CC High School was founded as a two-story, fourteen-room facility on Wilson Lane in 1926. In 1935, the school opened at its current location on East-West Highway in a 44,995 sqft building designed by Howard Wright Cutler. From 1946 to 1950, the B-CC building was used as the first home of Montgomery Junior College—today's Montgomery College, the county's public community college. During its first school year, the college had about 175 students. Over the years, new buildings were erected and existing buildings enlarged, including: These additions brought the total school area to 253,242 sqft. In the summer of 1994, parents, teachers, administrators, business people and other supporters of B-CC High School formed the Community Coalition for Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School. Its charge was to re-engineer the high school to better suit its increasingly urbanized and cosmopolitan area. CC-B-CC representatives were encouraged to think broadly and innovatively to create programs that would lead B-CC High School and MCPS into the twenty-first century. Because of this effort, from 1999 to 2002, B-CC High School underwent a $41 million comprehensive modernization project that, among other things, combined the historic 1935 and 1936 structures into one building. It had a 213,499 sqft addition, 94,716 sqft of renovations of the original 1935, 1936 and part of the 1950 buildings, and 158,526 sqft of demolitions of most of the 1950 building, 1952, 1959, 1966, 1970, 1975, and 1976 buildings. This brought the campus area to 308,215 sqft. In 2018, B-CC opened a 94,407 sqft addition with 34 new classrooms, a new dance studio, and more offices, bringing the campus to a total of 402,622 sqft of area.

Facilities

The school has 80 classrooms, a media center with 30 computer workstations and TV studio and media production facilities, a greenhouse, a music laboratory and choral room, two gymnasiums and a weight training room, a 900-seat auditorium, and a cafeteria that serves breakfast and lunch. B-CC also has two "firsts" among Montgomery County Public Schools: a Cyber Café, opened in March 2003, and a Language Lab, installed in the summer of 2004. In 2008, B-CC High School was equipped with 80 digital classroom Promethean boards.

Activities and academics

As of 2024, B-CC is the 10th-ranked high school in Maryland and the 590th-ranked nationally, according to U.S News and World Report. B-CC students average a score of 1203 on the SAT, with 610 in verbal and 593 in math. In the 2022-23 school year, B-CC High School offered over 110 clubs and student organizations. In 2013, the school's physics team won the state championship.

Athletics

B-CC fields more than 25 athletic teams, known as the Battlin' Barons.

Fall sports

Winter sports

Spring sports

Rivalries

B-CC's closest athletic rivalry is with Walt Whitman; games between the schools are sometimes dubbed "Battle of Bethesda." It also has a growing rivalry with the other public school in Bethesda, Walter Johnson.

Notable alumni

B-CC has had many notable alumni in politics, business, academia, sports, and media.

Government and politics

Business

Academia

Sports

Arts and entertainment

Media and journalism

Books

Notable staff