It should not have taken the current outbreak of the COVID-19 strain of coronavirus to get soap in Wilson’s bathrooms. As a person who washes their hands after using the bathroom (which, disturbingly,...

DCPS is closing schools for the rest of March to help slow the spread of COVID-19, or coronavirus. Spring break will now take place from March 17 to 23 instead of its original April date. During the following...

DC Mayor Muriel Bowser declared a state of emergency in the city during the current spread of COVID-19, or coronavirus. The declaration gives the DC government access to increased funding and resources...

22 metrobus lines are currently being considered by Metro for “elimination,” meaning bus routes will be either discontinued or absorbed into other bus lines on a similar corridor. With many Wilson...

The 2010s were a wild time, and there are so many trends that left a big impact on us growing up. Here are some of the biggest.   Silly Bandz Silly Bandz were the coolest thing you could...

There are eight sections of The Beacon, including visuals, that the average reader diligently scans through as they peruse the paper—and never throw on the atrium floor. For those who ask "ok... but...

Last month, disputes broke out regarding the right of college journalists at Northwestern University to publish images of public protesters. Student protestors argued that the newspaper fed off of arrested...

Wilson administration reintroduced a policy in which students are not allowed to bring food from outside establishments into the school. Security officers started to enforce the policy strictly amid growing...

DC increased education spending for fiscal year 2020 by $70 million. Public and charter schools will receive the same amount of funding per student, as mandated by federal law.  Last year, DCPS faced...

If you saw a cartoon telling you to pick up your trash, would you? That’s part of the goal behind Wilson’s Clean and Green Team, which seeks to keep Wilson’s halls clean and promote self-responsibility.  The...

Wilson’s front office and entire first floor flooded after a large storm in July. Flooding was caused by damaged water pipes that couldn’t hold the excessive amount of rain that the month saw. Main...

It’s not an exaggeration to say my family couldn’t survive without Amazon. We use Amazon Prime for nearly every odd but necessary purchase, the Washington Post can be found on our kitchen table, and...

Yondr bags will not be returning to Wilson next year after the PTSO discontinued funding. Wilson could have used their own funds to continue the program, but chose not to. At the beginning of the school...

Principal Kimberly Martin was selected as the 2019 District of Columbia State Principal of the Year. Martin will be honored this fall by the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP)...

Cuatro manifestantes del grupo activista Code Pink fueron arrestados y eliminados de la embajada Venezolana en Georgetown en el 16 de Mayo. Muchas activistas del Code Pink habian comenzado su occupacion...

The College Board recently announced that it will expand its pilot of its adversity score program, tested at 50 colleges and universities last year. The adversity score attempts to give colleges more context...

Peter Cahall, Wilson principal from 2008 to 2014, died suddenly on Sunday, May 5 of a heart attack. He will be remembered for his dedicated leadership to the Wilson community. Cahall oversaw Wilson’s...

DCPS rejected Wilson’s plan to pilot a new online enrollment system for next school year. The program sought to provide returning Wilson families with the option to enroll their children through the...

Principal Kimberly Martin led an open meeting with students in the library last Friday during STEP to address student concerns surrounding the administration's response to the murder of Wilson sophomore...

Derick Davis, who worked at Wilson as a night custodian since June 2016, died last weekend. He was 36 years old. His untimely death shocked Wilson’s close-knit custodial staff. Davis lived in Northeast...

How much paper does Wilson use? Is it too much? By the end of a normal day, the average student accumulates about 14 pieces of paper. That is more than 2,300 pieces of paper per student per year, which...

El partido democrático es más confiado cada año a los votos latinos. Latinos forman 16.7% de la población, y ese demográfico es un campo de batalla por los dos partidos políticos. En general, el...

A new Target store will open in Tenleytown in 2020, filling the retail space formerly occupied by Best Buy. The retail chain is expanding nationwide as it moves to focus more on clothes as opposed to household...

Wilson’s Mass Media program was not adequately funded by DCPS for an end-of-school-year convention held in Seattle. The convention, Student Television Network (STN), showcases students’ media work...

The opening of a Wawa store in Tenleytown has been delayed. The popular Philadelphia-area convenience store chain has recently been expanding across the East Coast, with numerous locations opening in Florida...

“That’s insane, it’s just crazy that a meme works at our school,” senior Julia Ravenscroft said. “It is kinda awkward, it’s like ‘You went viral on Twitter, now you work at my school,’”...

Ben and Jerry’s seems to constantly be coming up with wackier flavors; the potato chip filled Tonight Dough was one of my favorite flavors until it vanished from Whole Foods. But sometimes, ice cream...

The DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department put Wilson under “firewatch” on December 8 after the Fire Inspector found that the fire alarm control panel and fire alarms were not functioning....

Thanks to an anonymous donation, Wilson’s weight room has received a much-needed refresh. “It’s a very generous gift,” said Wilson Athletic Director, Mitch Gore, who noted that the estimated value...

The DC Council unanimously voted to pass a bill making DC’s electricity 100 percent renewable by 2032. The DC Chapter of the Sierra Club fought to have the legislation passed. The ‘Clean Energy DC...

Pop quiz: What’s big, yellow, right in front of a good chunk of DCPS schools, and could be linked to a Danish cult? The Planet Aid donation bins are the answer. Planet Aid claims they are a charity...

Wilson’s Student Government Association (SGA) made over $10,000 from ticket sales for the Homecoming dance and spent less than $1,000 on decorations and entertainment for the event. The organization...

Wilson recently hosted its third blood drive in honor of Reilly Webb, a Wilson student who died of leukemia in September of 2017. Junior Nora Webb, Reilly’s sister, played a huge part in organizing the...

It’s rare for your field hockey team to win in a shootout. It’s even rarer when a member of the opposing team is a boy. Jaap Leeggangers, a male foreign-exchange student from the Netherlands, is a...

It was clear from the first auditions that “Rent” was going to be a different type of show. Unlike previous musicals which featured race-based casting, “Rent” focuses on eight New Yorkers living...

In National Geographic’s captivating look into the life of one of the outdoors’ craziest athletes, “Free Solo” details the journey of Alex Honnold and his climb of Yosemite National Park’s El...

The Wilson cross country teams boasted impressive records last year, with Wilson runners finishing in top spots across the board in multiple race divisions. Though they have lost crucial seniors, the now-juniors...

DCPS officials accidentally leaked the personal information of 2,000 DCPS students experiencing homelessness. The data, which included students’ names, ID numbers, schools, attendance history, housing...

Two thousand DCPS students experiencing homelessness had their personal information publicly available online for six months earlier this year. The data included students’ names, ID numbers, schools,...

Sidwell volleyball beat Wilson in an impressive match. While Wilson put up a valiant fight, they unfortunately still lost all 3 games. Sidwell was dominant from the start and seemed to quickly foil all...

SGA hosted its first-ever General Assembly last Tuesday in the auditorium, the meeting is intended as a place for students to communicate with their representatives about pressing issues and upcoming events. The...

Extra innings. Two outs, two strikes. St. Albans up 4-3. And then, almost out of a movie, senior Sam Himmelfarb hit a walk off double in the bottom of the ninth inning over the left fielder’s head, flipping...

Located at  36th Street in NW DC is the Sheridan School, a local private school that has a park that I frequent. They renovated their park over the school year and it recently opened to the public on...

Wilson will be adding a new Women’s History class for the 2018-2019 school year. Women’s History will be a semester-long course touching on a wide range of topics concerning the role of females in...

America needs to stand up to Israel Elie Salem America’s love for Israel is as stubborn as it is strong. In the past decades, Israel’s stunning military successes in the Middle East have been accompanied...

In the latest twist of events in the Ellington residency fraud scandal, several school families are suing the DC government, claiming that the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) mishandled...

DC neighborhoods haven’t always been so defined. Only last year, I learned that I had wrongly been telling everyone my whole life that I lived in Tenleytown when I, in fact, lived in North Cleveland...

Anybody who has ever taken a gym class with physical education teacher Desmond Dunham knows that he loves badminton. Few have ever seen someone actually play competitively against Dunham, but I was fortunate...

April is Autism Awareness Month, and that means recently you’ve likely seen something like a donation box for an organization, or maybe a picture of lots of people wearing blue. But for many neurotypical...

A bill introduced Tuesday in the DC Council would lower the voting age for federal and local elections from 18 to 16 years of age within the District. Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen, who proposed the...

Way back in January, The Beacon wrote about how Wilson’s Mass Media team was unsure how they would secure funding for their annual trip to the Student Television Network Convention (STN), the premier...

Mid-winter break is among the few good things DCPS has accomplished in recent months. Sure, it doesn't cancel out the numerous scandals that have plagued the school system, but it's definitely a start....

On March 9th, Wilson seniors Jacob Boss, Dominick Hogans, Isaac Frumkin, and sophomore Raymond Stevens ran in the sprint medley relay (SMR) at the New Balance Indoor Nationals in New York. The team was...

Wilson’s JROTC drill team recently won the Best Elite Overall award at the General Earle Wheeler Drill Contest, a citywide drill team competition in which 10 schools from across the region competed for...

Wilson’s volleyball team wrapped up an incredible season on Friday, coming in second place in all of DC after a loss to St. John’s in the DCSAA Championship. With a 34-3 season record, the team demolished...