
Departments and programs Ĭhurchill has nine academic departments: Art, Computer Science, English, Foreign Language, Mathematics, Performing Arts, Physical Education, Science, and Social Studies. In 2017, Churchill was ranked the best high school in Maryland and 75th in the nation by U.S. In 2016, the same report ranked Winston Churchill High School 94th in national ranking, 2nd in Maryland High Schools and 146th in STEM High Schools with 83.9 (out of 100) College Readiness Index. In 2012, Churchill was rated the best high school in Maryland and fifth among non-magnet schools nationally according to U.S. Department of Education as a 2007 National No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon School. Churchill earned the 2007 Maryland Blue Ribbon Award and was selected by the U.S. Before being appointed in 2021, Taylor was the principal of Cabin John Middle School School awards and recognition Ĭhurchill has been ranked in the top 100 high schools in the United States for years, climbing to 42 in 2007 and 75 in 2017. The current principal of Winston Churchill High School is John W. The majority of the students come from Herbert Hoover Middle School (75%) and Cabin John Middle School (25%). Ĭhurchill is part of the Montgomery County Public Schools system. Founded in 1964 as Potomac High School, the school's name was changed to "Winston Churchill High School" a year later. The school is named after Winston Churchill, a British statesman and politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II.

Winston Churchill High School, often referred to as WCHS, Churchill High School, CHS or Churchill, is a high school in Potomac, Maryland, United States, an unincorporated section of Montgomery County. It informed everything I do to this day.Montgomeryschoolsmd. "I don't know what I would have done or what I would have been if I haven't had those opportunities to do plays, write plays, learn about the arts and the history of the arts.

“Those kind of programs are so important for young people," he said. He said many of his classmates there complained about how few artistic opportunities they had growing up. There wasn’t a month in a school year where I wasn’t working on something.”Īfter high school, Cogman went to The Julliard School in New York to pursue acting and screenwriting. “We not only did a fall play and a spring musical, we did student-directed plays and student-written plays.

So, if I didn’t have these arts programs, I don’t know what would have happened to me.”Ĭogman explained Churchill had a strong drama department when he was a student there in the mid-1990s.

“I was never going to be an athlete in any way, shape or form. “It really did start with people giving you opportunities at a young age,” Cogman said in a Skype interview from Belfast, where the HBO show is currently shooting its sixth season. He says he typically writes two episodes a season, including “Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken,” which was nominated in an Outstanding Directing category. Cogman is a producer and writer for the show. "Game of Thrones" received 24 Prime Emmy Award nominations Thursday. Bryan Cogman says his road to "Game of Thrones" began in Montgomery County when he was a student at Winston Churchill High School in Potomac, Maryland.
