Rockville High School (Rockville, Maryland)

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First opened in 1968, Rockville High School is the home of the Rams. When nearby Robert E. Peary High School closed in 1984, Rockville inherited several of its programs, including the Pipe Band and annual National Capital Area Scottish Festival.

Rockville High is notable for its award winning student publications including its campus newspaper "the Rampage" and its literary/arts annual "Echoes."

The original architecture consisted of three buildings, or wings as they were referred to, connected by breezeways at the second level. The wings were labeled A (housing the auditorium, gymnasium, and two music rooms), B (housing the cafeteria, administration offices and various student labs), and C (housing vocational classrooms including a wood shop, publication and business). A fourth wing, D, was added to the rear of B wing in the 1970s with an experimental open classroom plan. Classroom walls could be retracted to make larger classrooms as needed.

An auxiliary gymnasium was added to A wing in 1994 with connections to the existing gym and locker rooms. This gym accommodated extra physical education classes and was also used for other functions such as dances and pipe band rehearsals.

The entire facility closed for two years to be renovated; students were temporarily moved to Northwood High School in Silver Spring, which was then a holding school for Montgomery County high school students displaced by school renovations. Rockville re-opened in 2004 and the building was rededicated in an August 2006 ceremony.