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...

  • 48 National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists in Blair class of 2023
  • 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019 & 2021 - Davidson Fellowship Winners
  • 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2018 & 2022 US Presidential Scholar Winners
  • Twenty Regeneron Scholars, 2019-2022
  • 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015 & 2018 Gold or Silver Medalists, International Physics Olympiad (two USAPHO qualifiers in 2022)
  • 2021 Gold Medalist, European Girls Olympiad in Informatics
  • 2021 Putnam Fellow
  • 2017-2019 It’s Academic Champion
  • Top student in the UMD Mathematics Competition 2015-2021 (66% of the top 24 students in 2021)
  • 2016-2019 top three finshers NYU Tanden School of Engineering cybersecurity competition (winners in 2017 & 2019)

    • [Due to the pandemic, many competitions were not held during the 2020-21 & 2021-22 school year]