Quarter 2 Update
Message from Dr. Mirshah
I'm incredibly proud of our seniors in the Class of 2023 who are on track for graduation and finalizing their plans for after graduation. Many of our students are receiving college acceptances, scholarships, finalizing their financial assistance, and making plans for their life beyond high school. Our goal is for every student to be enrolled in school, enlisted in the military, or prepared for the world of work after graduation.
Our Class of 2024 will be taking the SAT on March 22nd. This is an incredibly important part of the college admissions process. Information has been shared with our students on how they can begin to prepare for the SAT so that they get the best score possible.
Our students in the Class of 2025 are preparing to move up to the 11th grade and should be looking at their PSAT scores that were released in December and practicing sample questions in order to improve their SAT scores next year.
The students in the Class of 2026 have completed their first semester of high school. As we finish the second semester they should be preparing for taking the PSAT in October of 2023.
Students should access these resources to help them prepare for the college application and enrollment process.
SAT Resources
PSAT Resources
For all students we expect them to finish the school year by attending daily, earning credit in all classes, and working hard to reach for their futures and dreams.
NJROTC Field Trip to the Marine Corps Museum at Quantico VA
Gabe Ruiz Heading to UMBC to Play Baseball
Thank you PTSA!
Welcome to our newest Panthers!
Panther Paw Update
Jaiden Gray, Lordwin Ampomah, Josue Iraheta, Mickayla Okon, Ayanfe Oni, Ben Forsyth, Melanie Benitez-Espinal and Bless D'Costa earned their Montgomery County Food Service Licenses Today.
Teens With Heartsongs
PB students worked in partnership with Teens With Heartsongs a non-profit organization that works to raise money for the Housing Fund at the Children's National Hospital here in DC. Having to relocate to have your child receive treatment can be a big financial burden on family's, so the housing fund allows it so that all families can stay close to their child and completely pays for all of their accommodations and housing needs. Teens with Heartsongs offers a 10-week long virtual leadership program available for young students in the DC metro area which allows them to get involved in fundraising efforts. Students meet virtually once a week and hear from guest speakers and learn about philanthropy work. There was previously never a Paint Branch chapter established so several PB students decided to sign up to be leaders.
Some of the outreach work they did to get donors was creating and putting up flyers, sending out emails and texts, going door to door, and getting in contact with The Cheesecake Factory to receive donated gift cards to raffle off. Their food truck fundraiser raised $216 dollars for the organization. The team from Paint Branch was recognized for having the best fundraiser and best social media campaign.
Thank you to Djenabou Bokoum (President), Crystal Okanume (VP), and the following team members Alejandra Ramirez, Vanea Ogedengbe, Britney Bah, Maya Ogbogu, Valerie Hlover, and Rida Sukhera for their efforts.
4A Football
Congratulations to our football players that were recognized at the county level.
FIRST TEAM ALL-COUNTY OFFENSE
OFFENSIVE LINE - ELRENTON ANDREWS '23
SECOND TEAM-ALL-COUNTY OFFENSE
RUNNING BACK - ROMAN SPIKES '24
WIDE RECEIVER - RASHAD BRADLEY '23
OFFENSIVE LINE - JORDAN BENNETT '23
TIGHT END - JORDAN HORM '24
FIRST TEAM - ALL-COUNTY DEFENSE
DEFENSIVE BACK - NICK SPIKES '24
SECOND TEAM - ALL-COUNTY DEFENSE
DEFENSIVE END - JACQUES PEINGA '23
HONORABLE MENTION
OFFENSIVE LINE - SAM JEAN BAPTISTE '23
WIDE RECEIVER - CADEN JACKSON '25
INSIDE LB - NOAH CHAMBERS '25
INSIDE LB - DINSO OKAFOR '24
NJROTC Update
Posse Scholarship Winners!
Thirteen Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) students have been named recipients of full-tuition, four-year college scholarships from the Posse Foundation. The Posse program identifies public high school students with extraordinary academic and leadership potential that may have been overlooked by traditional college selection processes.
Nationally, more than 60 colleges and universities each offer full-tuition, merit scholarships to students throughout the country and create multicultural teams—called Posses—on each campus. These student teams receive professional guidance before and throughout college and provide support to one another.
On campus, these students serve in important leadership roles. This year’s recipients come from 10 high schools and will attend six different colleges.
Paint Branch High School had two of the thirteen winners in MCPS.
Isaah Douglas, Bucknell University
Bryan Beri, Sewanee: The University of the South
Quest Bridge Scholarship Winners!
Please join me in congratulating our two Quest Bridge scholarship winners. Jose Martinez is going to Columbia University and Kimmie Nguyen is heading to Amherst College. These students are in our ACES program and have benefited from the support and encouragement that Ms. Terre Thomas provides.
Paint Branch Gives Back to the Community
After we made the donation of food several students from Paint Branch High School worked at Liberty Grove to help with organization of the donations.