501 Forest 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.

This school absolutely sucks. Get ready for your kids to get yelled at 24/7, not to mention the stem program here is bad. All the teachers are rude and there is rude and bad administration. Not to mention there was a student who was sexually assaulting girls for a while and nothing was done about it until parents were involved.

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.