Westmoreland County

Public Schools

Twelve Montross Middle School students had an out of the world experience on April 21, 2023. The students had been selected to participate in a chat with Astronaut Steve Bowen. The ARRIS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) program allows for radio contact between an astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and a local school. Montross Middle School was one of nine schools selected in the United States for this unique opportunity.

On Saturday, March 25, 2023, Westmoreland High School hosted a concert featuring the local area’s top-ranked middle school and high school band members. Samuel Heiger, WHS band director and audition host, Bruce Passaretti, Montross Middle School band director worked exceeding hard with coordinating the massive undertaking of gathering 160 students (86 middle school students and 74 high school) from 22 regional schools in the Northern Neck/Middle Peninsula for the occasion.

It took eight rounds before a winner was declared for the Westmoreland County Public Schools’ spelling bee district championship. At the end of the evening, seventh grade Montross Middle School student, Bri’Elle Hall sealed her victory by spelling correctly the final word of the night, “prophetically.”

2023 Westmoreland County District Teacher of the Year, Marshall Brown