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John F. Kennedy High School is a public high school located in unincorporated in Montgomery County, Maryland. The school is within the Glenmont census-designated place,〔"(2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Glenmont CDP, MD )" ((Archive )). U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on June 22, 2015.〕 and has a Silver Spring mailing address. The school is a part of Montgomery County Public Schools. Over 1,700 students are enrolled at Kennedy. Since the 2004-2005 school year Kennedy has been part of the Down County Consortium, which includes Montgomery Blair, Wheaton, Einstein, and Northwood High Schools. Kennedy's mascot is the Cavalier. Kennedy has several middle schools which feed into it as it is part of a consortium although there are two middle schools assigned specifically to Kennedy; Col. E. Brooke Lee Middle School, Argyle Middle School, and Eastern Middle School. ==History== Opening its doors in 1964, Kennedy High School was originally going to be called "East Wheaton High School," but due to President John F. Kennedy's assassination in November 1963, the school took his name as its namesake.〔(Tim Clark 2008 JFK Commencement Address Video )〕 It initially enrolled students in 7th through 10th grades. By the fall of 1966, it enrolled students in 9th through 12th grades, and graduated its first full 12th grade class in the spring of 1967. Kennedy's early history is that of an experimental school, with open classes, no grades, and no required attendance. The onus was on Kennedy's students to be self-motivated. Kennedy's rare approach to education gained international attention, but ultimately these trends did not become very popular in other schools. Kennedy itself ceased to use this format as some parents refused to send their children to Kennedy and demanded the school be shut down. After the baby boom generation, many schools were forced to close. Kennedy absorbed the student bodies of Northwood High School. Their feeder schools were absorbed by Col. E. Brooke Lee Middle School and Eastern Middle School. The Kennedy building was renovated in the 1996-98 school year. During that time, Kennedy's students attended classes at the then defunct Northwood High School. In 2004 Northwood was reopened, absorbing parts of Kennedy's student body through a new choice process. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John F. Kennedy High School (Montgomery County, Maryland)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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