A BRIGHT FUTURE FOR DOWNTOWN FAMILIES
What does the future hold for Baltimore families? "A diverse and socially connected place where schools are excellent, streets are safe, parks are plentiful, retail abounds, and housing meets the needs of growing families," envisions the Downtown Baltimore Family Alliance.
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From our work in middle income neighborhoods throughout the city, we know how important schools are in deciding where to live for households with children, or those that plan to have them.
Fortunately, residents of Baltimore have a variety of educational options to choose from. For all its well-documented, and well-publicized, challenges, the Baltimore City Public School System offers pockets of excellence among its neighborhood schools—and attractive magnet programs for students at all grade levels. There are some two dozen charter schools, which are public schools that operate independently and have flexibility in curriculum and management. There is a strong network of private and parochial schools. And there is the option of home schooling.
Many city families opt to combine their choices, choosing to begin their children’s education at a neighborhood school and then transferring into the private or Catholic system for middle and upper grades, or beginning in the nonpublic system before enrolling in a citywide public magnet high school program.
For this initial effort, we focused on schools in, or convenient to, Northeast Baltimore. For our information, we relied on the answers to questionnaires we sent to the heads of individual schools, school websites and such publicly-available sources as The Maryland Report Card and state’s nonpublic school enrollment figures.
Not every school is included. Some we felt were too small to list; for others, we did not have enough information to provide a write-up. For neighborhood public schools that did not respond to our survey, we provide the link to the Maryland Report Card, which offers information on student demographics and results of required state-wide public school tests.
One final note: There is more information publicly available on public and charter schools, including data on demographics and SAT scores, than on private and Catholic schools. We asked the private and Catholic schools for that information as well. Some provided it, or post it on their websites; others did not. As parents or guardians, if that information is important to you, we suggest you ask for it from individual school admissions offices.
We hope you find this website useful and welcome your comments, pro or con. Please send them to us at schools@healthyneighborhoods.org.
Many city families opt to combine their choices, choosing to begin their children’s education at a neighborhood school and then transferring into the private or Catholic system for middle and upper grades, or beginning in the nonpublic system before enrolling in a citywide public magnet high school program.For this initial effort, we focused on schools in, or convenient to, Northeast Baltimore. For our information, we relied on the answers to questionnaires we sent to the heads of individual schools, school websites and such publicly-available sources as The Maryland Report Card and state’s nonpublic school enrollment figures.
Not every school is included. Some we felt were too small to list; for others, we did not have enough information to provide a write-up. For neighborhood public schools that did not respond to our survey, we provide the link to the Maryland Report Card, which offers information on student demographics and results of required state-wide public school tests.
One final note: There is more information publicly available on public and charter schools, including data on demographics and SAT scores, than on private and Catholic schools. We asked the private and Catholic schools for that information as well. Some provided it, or post it on their websites; others did not. As parents or guardians, if that information is important to you, we suggest you ask for it from individual school admissions offices.
We hope you find this website useful and welcome your comments, pro or con. Please send them to us at schools@healthyneighborhoods.org.
