Although many people consider Sylvester Stallone to be a classic Philadelphia icon, he really spent his early years in Montgomery County, Maryland. The well-known actor, writer, and director disclosed a startling fact about his history in an open discussion with his children on the podcast Unwaxed (see the video below): he was expelled from the Maryland school board as a whole.
Between around the ages of five and fifteen, Stallone resided in Montgomery County, attending Montgomery Hills Junior High and Woodlin Elementary School during that time. Stallone’s assertion was directed at the latter, which closed in 1982 and reopened as Mario E. Loiederman Middle School decades later. During the interview, Stallone disclosed that he started going to military school in his junior year of high school, but he did not go into detail about the precise reason for the prohibition.
The Stallones have a long history in the region. Frank Stallone Sr., Stallone’s father, was a well-known local personality who maintained hair salons in Darnestown and Silver Spring. In addition, he belonged to Poolesville’s Potomac Polo Club. Before Sylvester and his mother relocated to Philadelphia, the family briefly resided in Potomac following a number of years in Silver Spring, according to Frank Stallone Sr.’s obituary. Before moving to Florida in the mid-1990s, Frank Stallone Sr. stayed in the region.
Although he doesn’t specifically mention Montgomery County again, Stallone goes into greater detail about his early years and school experiences in the podcast, which is available in its entirety here.
