Montgomery Blair High School

Montgomery Blair High School is a public high school located in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.The school was named after Montgomery Blair, a lawyer who represented Dred Scott in his United States Supreme Court case and who served as Postmaster General under President Abraham Lincoln. It originally opened in 1925 as Takoma Park-Silver Spring High School. In 1935, however, Montgomery Blair High School opened at 313 Wayne Avenue, a location overlooking Sligo Creek, now occupied by Silver Spring International Middle School. In 1998, the campus moved two miles north to the Kay Tract, a long-vacant tract of land adjacent to the Capital Beltway.The school has two magnet programs: the Math/Science/Computer Science Magnet and the Communication Arts Program, which draw students from both the Silver Spring area and across Montgomery County, and make up approximately 15% of Blair's student population. It is a member of the National Consortium for Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science and Technology .