17 Butternut Rd
Riva, MD 21140

I’m very disappointed with how this school handled my son’s situation. He is a special needs student, and instead of offering the proper support and accommodations he needed, the school repeatedly suspended him and delayed the process of placing him in an appropriate special-needs program.As a parent, it’s heartbreaking to see a child punished for challenges that require understanding and resources, not discipline. I hope the administration improves their approach to helping families with special needs children so no other parent has to go through what we did.

I haven't been in the school for that long sense i recently transferred to a different school because of house moving. Over all my experience there has been quite awful. Some of the teachers were out right annoying with no one liking them (I was in the stem program.) Some of the teachers were funny and it was nice to be in their classes. I really hated science due to the teacher always yelling or screaming at us. Imp just glad that I'm no longer in that horrible school. Send your child to a different one if you have the chance.

South River is an excellent school regardless of whether your children are in STEM or not. The STEM program admission (and all other magnet program admissions in AACPS) are purely lottery based. No school in AACPS is pulling high achieving students from other clusters to boost their test scores. It’s not like how magnet program admissions work in Montgomery County. It’s true that STEM students are required to take two AP classes in their curriculum to graduate and that that could be influencing the high AP participation rate at SRHS, but all students at the school have access to AP courses, not just STEM students. This school has very dedicated teachers and very welcoming community. I agree that SRHS not being racially or socio-economically diverse is a huge con, and that sometimes the product of that is a school where some instances of racism are more likely to go unchecked, but most of the students are friendly and not racist at all. There were some incidents at the school two decades ago that gave the school a reputation for being “racist,” but SRHS has come a long way since then.