Seneca Valley High School

Seneca Valley High School is an American public high school in Germantown, Maryland. It is part of the Montgomery County Public Schools. As of 2005, its enrollment was 1,700 but with the opening of new schools in the area it has dropped to a little less than 1,400 students.HistorySeneca Valley High School sits on land which was once the site of a dairy farm owned by baseball player Walter Perry Johnson, having been purchased by him in 1935. Johnson lived there with his five children and his mother, as his wife died, until his death in 1946.1970sSeneca Valley High School opened in 1974 as the first high school in Germantown and remained the only one until 1998, when Northwest High School opened. In its first year of operation, the 1974 to 1975 school year, under Principal Nathan Pearson, Seneca Valley hosted students grades seven through ten. In the following 1975 to 1976 school year, the school operated grades nine through eleven, with 8th graders transferring to the newly opened Ridgeview Junior High School in Gaithersburg, Maryland. During the 1976 to 1977 school year, Seneca Valley transformed into what was then a senior high school, hosting grades ten through twelve, graduating its first class in June 1977.1980sFinally in 1988, Seneca Valley changed to the present state of full-fledged high school with grades 9-12.1990sThe class of 1992, was the first to graduate all upper high school years in one facility.2010sThe existing school building, built in the 1970s, is due to be demolished, with a new one to be built in its place by the end of 2020. Construction work began in September 2017.