Editing Brookeville, Maryland (section)

==Education==
[[Image:Brookeville Academy.jpg|thumb|left|Brookeville Academy]]
The Brookeville Academy, a preparatory school established in 1814, was one of the first schools in the county.<ref>{{cite book |title=Leading Events of Maryland History |url=https://archive.org/details/leadingeventsofm00gamb |author=Montgomery Gambrill, John |author2=M. Bates Stephens |publisher=Ginn and company |year=1904 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/leadingeventsofm00gamb/page/262 262]}}</ref> Among those educated at the Academy, include Dr. Henry Howard, who established Howard County,<ref>{{cite book |title=The Transactions of the American Medical Association |author=American Medical Association |year=1874 |page=533}}</ref> and William Edward Magruder, great-grandson of Colonel [[Zadok Magruder]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Year Book of the American Clan Gregor Society |publisher=American Clan Gregor Society |year=1912}}</ref> In 1869, the Brookeville Academy relocated to Merrywood, located on nearby farmland outside of town.<ref name="walking"/> The original building has since been used as a meeting facility by the [[American Legion]] and other organizations. On June 2, 1909, the Public School Board took over running the school. In 1988, the original building was sold to the Town of Brookeville, which maintains the building as a historic site and use for events.<ref name="academy">{{cite web |url=http://townofbrookevillemd.org/acad.html |title=The Brookeville Academy |author=Lemon, Anne Marie |access-date=December 14, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071118044022/http://townofbrookevillemd.org/acad.html |archive-date=November 18, 2007 }}</ref>

The Longwood School for Boys was a private school that was established in 1946 by George F. Kimmell, who had bought Longwood Manor. In 1952, Kimmell leased the school facilities to the Civil Defense Administration, which used it for military training. The school was vacated in 1963, and remained vacant until 1978, when it was converted into a community recreation center.<ref>{{cite book |author=Barrow, Healan |author2=Kristine Stevens |title=Olney: Echoes of the Past |year=2000 |publisher=Willow Bend Books |pages=117–118}}</ref> The Longwood Recreation Center is run by the Montgomery County Recreation Department.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/rectmpl.asp?url=/content/REC/recipix/Longwood_cen.asp |title=Longwood Community Center |publisher=Montgomery County Recreation Department |access-date=December 15, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080521193546/http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/rectmpl.asp?url=%2Fcontent%2FREC%2Frecipix%2FLongwood_cen.asp |archive-date=May 21, 2008 }}</ref>

Brookeville is now part of the [[Montgomery County Public Schools (Maryland)|Montgomery County Public Schools]] system, and is served by Sherwood High School, which first opened in 1883 as a [[Religious Society of Friends|Friends]] school and became a public school in 1909.<ref>{{cite book |author=Barrow, Healan |author2=Kristine Stevens |title=Olney: Echoes of the Past |year=2000 |publisher=Willow Bend Books |pages=76–77}}</ref> Most of Brookeville, including the town proper, is located in the service area for [[Rosa Parks Middle School]] and Greenwood Elementary School. Some areas, bordering Howard County, are located the service area for [[William H. Farquhar Middle School]] and Sherwood Elementary School. Up until 1992, when Rosa Parks Middle School opened, all of Brookeville was within the Farquhar service area.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/fy2007/schools/04503map.pdf|title=Sherwood HS cluster map |publisher=Montgomery County Public Schools |access-date=April 17, 2017}}</ref>