About Richard Montgomery H.S.
Richard Montgomery High School serves a diverse population of approximately 1,900 students in grades 9 through 12. Our school is located in Rockville, Maryland, a suburb of Washington D.C.
Over the past several years, the school has been featured in Newsweek magazine as one of the top 100 schools in the nation. Richard Montgomery High School was awarded the Blue Ribbon in Education Award by the United States Department of Education. In 2003, Jay Mathews identified RM as the number one school in the D.C. metropolitan area in the Challenge Index for Rigor.
Richard Montgomery High School is proud to be home to one of the top International Baccalaureate Programs in the world as well as the new Middle Years Programme for outstanding students.
The Richard Montgomery Mission
In order to prepare students to live in and contribute to a changing world and engage in active, life-long learning, Richard Montgomery High School provides a balanced, varied school curriculum designed to meet the academic, cultural and social needs of individuals from the diverse backgrounds of our community.