About the Magnet

In 1985, Montgomery County Public Schools opened its Science, Mathematics, and Computer Science Magnet Program within Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland. The Magnet Program is designed to offer accelerated, interdisciplinary courses in science, mathematics, and computer science for highly able students particularly interested in these subjects.

Since Magnet students have a number of extra academic requirements, magnet students have an eight-period day, instead of the normal seven-period day of most county high school students. Magnet students can (and do!) take full advantage of Blair's other extracurriculars such as athletics, student clubs, the school's bands and plays, and other activities.

Magnet students have been...

30-50% of seniors annually awarded National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists
2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021 & 2024 - Davidson Fellowship Winners
2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2018 & 2022 US Presidential Scholar Winners
Twenty-seven Regeneron Scholars, 2019-2025
2011, 2013, 2014, 2015 & 2018 Gold or Silver Medalists, International Physics Olympiad
2025 Gold Medalist, International Biology Olympiad
2024 Gold Medalist, International Chemistry Olympiad
2021 Gold Medalist, European Girls Olympiad in Informatics
2021 Putnam Fellow
2017-2019 It’s Academic Champion
Top student in the UMD Mathematics Competition 2015-2023
2016-2019 top three finshers NYU Tanden School of Engineering cybersecurity competition (winners in 2017 & 2019)

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