On May 27th, 2025, The Boys Lacrosse team punched their ticket to the state tournament. They beat Alexandria City 11-4 on May 27th and will play their next game on Friday, May 30th, and they will go on to play Robinson at Robinson High School, at 5:30pm.    The...

At West Potomac, tucked away in a corner of springbank, a classroom brimming with creativity releases their 4th album in just as many years. Mr.Luke Pierce and his students have made the promise to go above and beyond the standard set by their previous...

          Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin signed Senate Bill 854 into law on Monday limiting the use of several social media apps for teens. The new law requires social media companies to implement a one hour limit for all users under the age of...

Opening night for Once on This Island, run by Beyond The Page Theatre Company, made my Friday and Saturday evening very special. The show was gripping for only costing $10 for students and $15 for adults.  When I first walked into the theatre, I was...

“Viva il papa!” the crowd cheers as white smoke emerges from the Sistine Chapel’s chimney. The cardinals have chosen a new pope.  Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost born in Chicago, Illinois, is now officially known as Pope Leo XIV. At just...

On May 8th, 2025, West Potomac Sophomores will take the AP World History exam, the first AP exam many of them have ever taken. The exam will start at 12:00pm and students will have three and a half hours to complete the whole exam.  “I am very nervous...

Censorship has been rearing its ugly head across the nation. For instance, earlier in the year, The Washington Post editorial writers were instructed to focus the paper's opinion page only on stories in defense of free market principles and personal liberties...

The world has had 5 mass extinction events in the last 500 million years, each one eradicating more than 75% of all species on the planet. But what if those “extinction events” were reversible. With recent discoveries and innovations, a world in which...

West Potomac High School students have begun the testing season and will be taking Standards of Learning (SOL), Advanced Placement (AP), and final Exams, from April 21 through June 10, 2025.   On major SOL testing days (April 29, May 12, and...

 As the school day neared its end, Principal Jessica Statz announced over the speakers that the weapons detections system will be returning to West Po for the remainder of the 2024-2025 school year. Starting May 1, students must enter through doors 1...

For countless West Po students May doesn’t symbolize a time of relaxation, instead May means hours of studying and stress for AP exams. While The Wire staff prep for the upcoming paper they also have spent numerous hours prepping for their various AP...

Today, West Po students walked into school expecting to pass through the weapons detection system, as they did on Thursday. However, there was no difference at doors 1, 5, and 19 today from three days ago, before the stabbing other than the increased...