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Lincoln’s Standing Bear High School opens doors for the first time
18/07/2024

Lincoln’s Standing Bear High School opens doors for the first time

LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) – The brand-new Standing Bear High School opened its doors for the first day of school on Monday with a pep rally for the class of 2027.

That will be the first class to spend all four years there.

This year, the school at 70th Street and Saltillo Road will teach freshmen and sophomores. Not enough juniors were interested this year, school administrators said.

SEE ALSO: Lincoln’s Standing Bear High School will open without juniors and seniors

The freshmen are excited to get started and create the school culture from scratch.

“I feel like being able to create your own culture and leave your mark for everyone to be able to use that is kind of amazing,” Renton Laholt said.

Typically, students who move to a new school feel alone and nervous because they don’t know anybody.

But with this situation, those nerves are shared by everyone.

“It’s everyone’s, like, fresh start, and everyone’s starting over,” freshman Jane Balck said. “So I’m not the only one that’s nervous or trying to, like, fit in or whatever.”

The high school building may be a carbon copy of Lincoln Northwest, but there are some differences in what goes on

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High School Education
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by sindiro
Where MoCo high school graduates are going to college
10/03/2024

Where MoCo high school graduates are going to college

The following is a chart of the colleges and universities where 2023 graduates from eight Montgomery County high schools applied, were accepted and enrolled. The chart is based on data provided by the schools. The schools are: Albert Einstein in Kensington; Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Walt Whitman and Walter Johnson in Bethesda; Montgomery Blair in Silver Spring; Richard Montgomery and Thomas S. Wootton in Rockville; and Winston Churchill in Potomac.

The information sent by the schools is self-reported by students, so school officials cannot guarantee its accuracy. For brevity’s sake, we have limited the list to colleges and universities with at least six applicants from the combined high schools.

Fun facts:

  • This year, the University of Chicago was the most selective college that accepted at least one student from across the eight Montgomery County high schools, with an overall acceptance rate of just 3.6%.
  • The most popular school this year among the students of the eight high schools was the University of Maryland, College Park, which racked up 2,606 applications, followed by Montgomery College (968), the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (931) and Pennsylvania State University (904).
  • The University of Maryland, College Park is taking the most students from the eight schools,
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High School Education
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by sindiro