 2012 Career Center Student House Project Complete
The 15th Career Center student house project is now complete, and the school is currently accepting sealed bids until June 1, 2012. The minimum bid is $225,000. This year’s house is located in Rawlings, Maryland, and was constructed by junior and senior building trades’ students at the school. Read More
May 18, 2012
AP Testing - Human Geography
May 19, 2012
Allegany High School Prom
May 21, 2012
HSA Online Administration
May 21, 2012
HSA English
May 22, 2012
HSA Biology
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Nominations Being Requested for Employee Recognition Awards The school system will honor two employees for “raising students up” during their annual convocation. Individuals wishing to submit a nomination should complete the form. Read More Last Day of School June 1st as per Original CalendarMSDE and the local elected BOE has granted the school system’s request to waive the 180th student day, thus making the last day of school for students Friday, June 1, 2012, as per the original calendar. Read More School Board Hears Results of Grimm & Parker Feasibility StudyGrimm & Parker Architects recently completed a comprehensive feasibility study on the systems and facilities of the Western Maryland Health System’s Braddock Campus as a potential site for the construction of a new Allegany High School. Read More South Penn Elementary School Opens Time Capsules from 1999Five Fort Hill High School seniors recently returned to their elementary school alma mater, South Penn, to open time capsules they each constructed during their 1999-2000 kindergarten classes. Read More Fort Hill High School Student Wins 2012 Northrop Grumman ScholarshipFort Hill High School senior, Cullin Brown, was selected as Allegany County’s 2012 recipient of the Northrop Grumman $10,000 scholarship. Read More |
 David A. Cox, Ed.D.
Superintendent of Schools
The 2011-2012 school year will soon come to a close. I would like to take this opportunity to offer congratulations to our 2012 graduates, their parents, and all the teachers who have been a part of their educational journey through ACPS. This year has been especially busy. Our instructional staff has been working very hard to meet the expectations of transitioning to the Common Core Curriculum. Maryland is a part of a 24-state consortium making this transition and embarking on common state assessments for our students, which will be administered to our students for the first time in the spring of 2015. We are also developing a new evaluation system and process for principals and teachers to be piloted in the 2012-2013 school year. The development of the budget for the 2012-2013 school year continues to be very challenging as the General Assembly delayed adopting a final state budget, and we continue to manage our budget with declining state and local revenues. Our commitment ...
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