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Nora School

The Nora School is a private progressive college-preparatory high school in . A nonprofit school with 501 status, it was formerly known as The Eberhard School, Washington Ethical Society School, and Washington Ethical High School.
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  • Type: School
  • Description: school in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
  • Also known as: “The Nora School”
  • Address: 955 Sligo Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Silver Spring station and Brigadier General Charles E. McGee Library.

Historic building
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is a former train station on the Metropolitan Subdivision in in . It was built in 1945 by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad on the foundation of a previous station, a Victorian-style brick structure built in 1878. is situated 560 feet west of Nora School.

Library
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The , formerly the Silver Spring Library, is part of the Montgomery County Public Libraries System. It opened to the public in 1931 and is currently located at 900 Wayne Avenue in . is situated 1,700 feet north of Nora School.

Movie theater
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is a three-screen complex in downtown , north of It is operated by the . is situated 2,400 feet north of Nora School.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Silver Spring and Shepherd Park.

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is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, . It is considered to be an "edge city". It sits next door to Washington, DC, and had about 82,000 residents in 2018.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood in the of In the years following World War II, restrictive covenants which had prevented Jews and African Americans from purchasing homes in the neighborhood were no longer enforced, and the neighborhood became largely Jewish and African American.

Neighborhood
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is an area in northwest , built in 1931 with 80 residences. The homes are reproductions of colonial buildings, such as the , where General Charles Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown.

Nora School

Latitude
38.99031° or 38° 59′ 25″ north
Longitude
-77.02517° or 77° 1′ 31″ west
Elevation
344 feet (105 metres)
Open location code
87C4XXRF+4W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 358255651
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­school
Geo­Names ID
7136100
Wiki­data ID
Q7050152
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In Other Languages

From Egyptian Arabic to French—“Nora School” goes by many names.
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مدرسة نورا”
  • French: “Nora School”

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