Baltimore City Schools

No Child Left Behind - A law with good intentions, but unfortunately the narrow focus on math, reading, and little else, may cause problems for some students. Also visit BaltimoreSchools.org.

Baltimore City Public School System

The Baltimore City Public School System (official name) has charge of the education for approximately 90,000 of Baltimore's school children. The Baltimore public school system maintains about 173 schools in all neighborhoods of our city.

*It is "interesting" to watch this LINK TO THE CEO's PAGE to see how often the "new" head of the school system chooses to communicate with the public via the Internet.

Two representative Baltimore public school Web sites are: Francis Scott Key Technology Magnet E/M School, which focuses on instructional technology; and The Baltimore City College, a high school with a strong liberal arts focus. There are many other public schools in Baltimore, but unfortunately, only very few have been provided with Web sites by the school system. A few other schools have created them on their own.

A Representative Sampling of other Schools in the Baltimore area: Private Schools, Parochial Schools, Colleges, Universities...

• Coppin State College - 2500 W. North Avenue • Baltimore, MD 21216 (410) 951-3000 • Admissions Phone Number: (410) 951-3600 • President: Dr. Stanley F. Battle • Set on 38 acres in northwest Baltimore, Coppin State College is a historically black, four-year liberal arts college providing academic programs in the arts and sciences, teacher education, nursing, graduate studies, and continuing education. Coppin offers 21 majors and 11 graduate-degree programs. A fully accredited urban, residential campus, Coppin serves Baltimore residents as well as students from around the world, with flexible course schedules that include convenient day, evening, and weekend classes.
• Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland - Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland - The Nation's First Diocese - Founded in 1789. Catholic parochial schools can be found with this link.
• Baltimore City Community College - Baltimore's only community college -- the place more Baltimore City residents enroll as undergraduates than any other college or university in the state.
• Baltimore Collegetown Network - a group of colleges and universities in the Baltimore area which have joined together to share resources and ideas and to promote Baltimore as a great college town.
• Baltimore International College - Schools of culinary arts, business and management.
• Cardinal Shehan School - A Catholic Pre-K thru 8 school located in Baltimore, Maryland.
• College of Notre Dame - A four-year independent liberal arts college primarily for women, founded in 1873 by the School Sisters of Notre Dame.
• Francis Scott Key Magnet School - Instructional technology magnet school in South Baltimore, Maryland. Elementary and Middle school grades PreK-8.
• Goucher College - Committed to offering men and women the finest in liberal arts and sciences education.
• The Johns Hopkins University - America's first research university. Hopkins is a world leader in research and education in medicine, public health, the arts, sciences, and engineering.
• Loyola College in Maryland - Catholic comprehensive university located in downtown Baltimore, MD.
• Maryland Institute College of Art - The Maryland Institute is one of the most selective art colleges in the country, and was recently named among the top four visual arts colleges in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.
• Morgan State University - Official site.
• THINKportal - There are thousands of links to Internet Education Resources -- some are good and some are "not so good" (being polite here). The THINKportal will point you to some of the "good" ones; major sites, government educational sites and university sites -- both free and commercial.
• UMBC Upward Bound - Offers information on this program, funded by the US Dept. of Education, designed to help low income, and/or first generation students matriculate into college.
• University of Baltimore - UB is an upper-division university, offering the junior and senior years of undergraduate study, one of just a few in the country. It also offers distinct graduate professional programs in liberal arts, business, and law.
• University of Maryland at Baltimore - University of Maryland Baltimore, MD
• Word Broker - lists of words, all kind of words
• No Child Left Behind - A narrow focus on math, reading, and little else, may cause problems for some students.