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About B-CC High School

Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School is located in the heart of downtown Bethesda. With over 1,800 students, B-CC HS reflects the racial, ethnic and socio-economic diversity of Montgomery County. For school year 2011-2012, enrollment is 59 percent white, 15 percent black, 16 percent Hispanic, 6 percent Asian, 4 percent reporting multiple races, and less than 1 percent American Indian. Fifteen percent of its students qualified for “free and reduced meals”. Its English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) program has 77 students representing 44 countries and 28 languages.

B-CC High School provides education for the college-bound, those headed for the workplace, students for whom English is a second language and students with disabilities. It offers extracurricular and co-curricular clubs and activities for myriad interests. If public education is to survive, schools like B-CC that mirror the nation’s diversity must continue to flourish.

B-CC Enrollment Jumps More Than 70% in 17 Years

Since the Foundation’s start in 1995, B-CC’s enrollment has increased dramatically, an indication of the community’s greater confidence in the school. The total student population was 1,830 as of mid-October 2011, a 70% increase in 17 years.

* School enrollment numbers are for the school year ending in the year listed, except for 2012, where data are as of October 12, 2011.

B-CC’s Notable Numbers

  • B-CC offers 23 AP and 31 IB courses in school year 2011-12.
  • At the start of the 2011-2012 school year, 96% of B-CC students are enrolled in at least one honors-level course; among the seniors, 71% are enrolled in at least one AP course and 55% are enrolled in at least one IB course.
  • The Class of 2012 has fourteen National Merit Semifinalists and three National Achievement Semifinalists.
  • The class of 2011 had 240 IB certificate candidates and 75 IB diploma candidates, compared with 210 and 91, respectively, the year before. B-CC’s IB program maintains an open admission policy, with a pass rate well above the international average.
  • A total of 802 students took 1,539 AP tests in May 2011.
  • B-C has a graduation rate of 96%; 75% of the Class of 2011 went to four-year colleges and 20% went to two-year colleges.
  • The SAT mean scores for B-CC’s class of 2010 were 1734. Comparable scores for MCPS and for the nation were 1653 and 1509, respectively.
  • The racial makeup of first-year IB diploma students among the class of 2009 (the year when data was available) was nearly identical to the school population: 61% white, 15% black, 13% Latino, and 11% Asian.
  • B-CC was the first Montgomery County Public School to offer IB Arabic and IB Italian.



Visit the B-CC High School web site at
www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/bcchs


With your help, we fund the following Signature Programs:

The B-CC High School Educational Foundation helps all our students succeed in high school and find a pathway to college and lifelong success. We depend on the generosity of the B-CC community – alumni, faculty, parents, community members, businesses, and municipalities – to fund our three signature programs:
Time for Academic Progress offers after-school academic support to students at all levels.
CollegeTracks helps B-CC students overcome the hurdles standing between them and college. A significant number of our students don’t know how to apply to college or get financial aid.
Summer Academy is a three-week summer program that eases the transition to high school for incoming 9th grade students who have struggled academically in middle school.
The Foundation's Grants Program also funds professional development to help B-CC teachers hone their skills, equipment and supplies to improve classroom instruction, and start-up expenses for a variety of innovative programs.