Important News

Dear Patuxent Valley Families and Community, This week was a great week, from seeing our young people meeting old friends on Monday, students playing Gaga Ball at recess, to visiting classrooms, it's hard to pick just one highlight! Suffice to say that I'm so glad that your young people are at our school, and that we have the amazing, skillful…

Back to School Night 24-25 is September 5 from 5:40pm to 8pm here at Patuxent Valley Middle School. See below for an updated schedule and information. Make sure you arrive early as parking is limited on campus, and please look up a copy of your child's schedule in synergy, but we'll have a paper copy available if needed. When you…

Parents, Guardians, and Families, The Howard County Public School System (HCPSS) is committed to providing a safe and nurturing environment for all students. Preventing bullying is an important part of this goal. HCPSS Policy 9460 states that bullying, cyberbullying, harassment, and intimidation are prohibited in HCPSS. Our administration and staff have been trained and made aware of this policy as…

Dear Patuxent Valley Families, We want to make you aware that we conducted the following safety drills during period 2 and period 6 today: Evacuation, Reverse Evacuation, Shelter in Place, Lockdown, Modified Lock Down and Duck, Cover and Hold. We conducted these drills so that all students and staff have both talked through and walked through each of our responses…

Dear Patuxent Valley Families and Community, The New Student Orientation yesterday truly affirmed to me that we have an amazing community and school home here at Patuxent Valley. It was wonderful to meet new faces, see some friends from last year and hear so many stories from students, and families about why they love our community and school. Thank you…

Dear Patuxent Valley Families and Community; The new school year is upon us! Yesterday we welcomed our faculty back into the building and had a great day of community building, sharing food, of course, beginning setting up our spaces so we can host our young people when they are back in the building (8/22 for New Student Orientation or 8/26…

We are very excited to welcome back our staff and students to PVMS this school year! PVMS PTSA will host two events on August 23rd and we need the help of our community to make this a success! Please review the sign up links below to see all the options on how you can help. Thank you and we are…

Dear Patuxent Valley Families and Community, The communications roll over has happened, August is here and the rhythm of the summer tells us that school is back soon! Welcome to all of our new families to Patuxent Valley! It has been great to meet some of you at our Summer Community Circles and I'm looking forward to meeting more of…

Hello Patuxent Valley Community, I hope everyone is having an amazing summer! While we don’t want to rush you back into the school year just yet, we have some important dates and information we wanted to share from your PVMS PTSA team. Last year we made a big change converting us from a PTA to a PTSA. We are now…

Dear Patuxent Valley Families and Community, I hope that each of you have been getting what you need during this hot July with many opportunities to recover from the weather! Our admin team has been working hard reflecting on the school year and working with our teams to prepare for next year. Last week and this week we’ve had a…