On January 8, the Middle School was excited to host local author Kate Anderson Brower to an assembly to talk about her book as well as her career in writing and reporting. Her book, White House: Inside America’s Most Famous Home, shares a special inside look into the most famous home in America—and the lives of hardworking staff members and first ladies who’ve maintained it.

Stone Ridge Director of Health Services, Giovanna Corcoran, RN, nominated our Director of Safety and Security, Mr. Robert Rappoport, as a Magnus Health frontline hero. We are proud to say that Mr. Rappoport has been recognized by Magnus Health due to his work of going above and beyond for Stone Ridge during the pandemic.

Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart was named a “A Top Vote Getter” in Bethesda Magazine’s “Best of Bethesda” Readers’ Poll! Readers voted Stone Ridge one of the Best Private School for Academics AND one of the Best Private School for Girls Sports.

Elizabeth Winkler '07 has received the honor of being published in The Best American Essays 2020, edited by Andre Aciman. The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction, published by Houghton Mifflin.

When I stepped off the Virginia bus as a freshman and into the sea of cheering seniors decked out in their themed costumes on my first day at Stone Ridge, I wondered then what it would be like to walk into school my first day of senior year. If you had told me that I would not have a first day nor a first semester, I would have been crushed. Instead of welcoming lower classmen dressed in our rodeo attire, the senior class entered their final year as a small, disparate box on a computer screen.