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Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School is a Montgomery County , Maryland , USA , Public School named for two of the towns it serves along with Kensington and Silver Spring , Maryland. It is located at 4301 East-West Highway, in Bethesda , an unincorporated community in Montgomery County. Bethesda-Chevy Chase is a part of Montgomery County Public Schools . The school serves the Chevy Chase area and some areas considered to be "Bethesda." Several municipalities, including the towns of Chevy Chase , Chevy Chase View , Chevy Chase Village , and Somerset , and the villages of Chevy Chase Section Three , Chevy Chase Section Five , Martin's Additions , and North Chevy Chase , are assigned to Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School. In 2005 the school was ranked 29 in Newsweek Magazine 's top 1000 High Schools in the U.S., and ranked 34th in the 2006 edition of the list. In the 2007 edition of the list BCC fell again, this time to 44th. BCC has fallen three consecutive years under the leadership of Principal Sean Bulson. It was also rated "Best School in America" by Time Magazine in 1960. Begun as a two-story, 14-room facility on Wilson Lane, B-CC High School opened in its current location on East-West Highway in 1934 at 44,995 ft&2. New buildings or additions to existing buildings were constructed in 1936 at 36,515 ft&2, 1950 at 49,616 ft&2, 1952 at 22,396 ft&2, 1959 at 32,408 ft&2, 1966 at 29,023 ft&2, 1970 at 20,295 ft&2, 1975 at 8,378 ft&2 and 1976 at 9,616 ft&2 which the total was 253,242 ft&2. Then, in the summer of 1994, parents, teachers, administrators, business people, and other supporters of B-CC High School formed the Community Coalition for Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School . Its charge was to re-engineer and refocus the high school in an increasingly urbanized and cosmopolitan area. CC-B-CC representatives were encouraged to think broadly and innovatively to create programs that would lead B-CC High School and Montgomery County Public Schools into the next century. Because of this effort, in February 2002, B-CC High School re-opened its doors after a two-and-a-half year, multi-million dollar, comprehensive modernization that, among other things, combined the historic 1934 and 1936 structures into one building. It had a 213,499 ft&2 addition, 94,716 ft&2 of renovations of the original 1934, 1936 and part of the 1950 buildings, and 158,526 ft&2 of demolitions of most of the 1950 building, 1952, 1959, 1966, 1970, 1975, and 1976 buildings. The building now encompasses 308,215 ft&2. The school now boasts 70 classrooms (67 regular classrooms and 3 special or alternative education classrooms), a media center with 30 computer workstations and TV studio and media production facilities, a greenhouse which was deemed structurally unsafe, a music laboratory and choral room, 2 gymnasiums and a weight training room, a 900-seat auditorium, and a cafeteria that serves breakfast and lunch. B-CC also has two "firsts" among Montgomery County Public Schools — a Cyber Café, opened in March 2003, and a state-of-the-art Language Lab, installed in the summer of 2004. The Cyber Café and the Language Lab resulted from two major initiatives launched by the Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School Educational Foundation. Founded in 1996 by a group of parents, alumni, teachers, and business and civic leaders in the B-CC community, the Foundation raises funds for projects that further the tradition of excellence for students at B-CC, now and in the future. ADMINISTRATORS
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ACADEMICS B-CC offers a variety of educational programs including the Advanced Placement Program and the International Baccalaureate Program to its students. In the Class of 2005, over 10% of the student body matriculated at Top 25 schools, including every Ivy League college. Chips, is B-CC's award winning magazine, currently in its 70th edition, is ranked among the nations top 5% of Literary Magazines THEATRE DEPARTMENT B-CC is a GRAMMY foundation signature school. This past year Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School won the Maryland State Theatre Society's award for best musical for its production of Urinetown. ATHLETICS Fall
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