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Alicia Deeny, principal at Richard Montgomery High School, has been named Principal of the Year by the Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents (ALAS). When Deeny was appointed principal at Richard Montgomery in 2021, she became the first female principal in the school’s history, and the first Latino high school principal in MCPS history. Richard Montgomery has maintained a 95 percent graduation rate under Deeny’s leadership, along with strong Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate performance, according to ALAS.
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Deeny, who started her MCPS career as a media assistant in 1999, was formerly principal at Takoma Park Middle School and an assistant principal at Montgomery Blair High School. Read a past feature on Deeny.
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