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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.
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.
Eleanor Roosevelt High School (ERHS) is a Maryland public magnet high school specializing in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The school was established in 1976 at its current location in Greenbelt, Maryland, United States and is part of the Prince George's County Public Schools system.
In 2009, Sheryll Cashin said in The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class are Undermining the American Dream that Surrattsville High was one of several mostly black, mostly middle class PG County public high schools that was "decidedly underachieving: fewer than half of the seniors at these schools went on to attend four-year colleges in recent years."