Baltimore, MD | Grades PK-8

Baltimore International Academy (BIA) has two signature programs, full Language Immersion and the International Baccalaureate. Language immersion program students learn core subjects (Science, Social Studies, Math, Target Language Arts) through one of five languages; Spanish, Chinese (Mandarin), Arabic, Russian or French. Students become fluent in speaking, understanding, reading and writing in their target languages. Beginning in the second grade, students receive one hour of English language arts daily to learn the mechanics of their native tongue. International Baccalaureate (IB) students learn through inquiry-based instruction, project-based assessments, and collaborative group work. The international mindedness and critical thinking skills they gain by learning through the IB programs is already setting them apart; their scores are higher than their City counterparts in the State’s reading and math assessments.

Baltimore, MD | Grades 4-8

Our academic and co-curricular program is designed to challenge our students to think critically, reason analytically, communicate clearly and solve problems. These four pillars of excellence and mastery will be accomplished through an integrated curriculum in which students investigate essential questions. Students also participate in a number of extracurricular activities such as debate, robotics, ceramics, chess, photography and global travel to enhance experiential learning.

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Baltimore, MD | Grades K-8

BIA offers both language immersion and is seeking candidacy for the International Baccalaureate (IB) program in the Primary and Middle Years Programs. Students choose one of five language immersion tracks (Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, or French) and become fully immersed in their target language for their entire career at BIA. By the end of the program, students are bilingual and bi-literate in both English and their chosen target language. Students will also have the opportunity to take another language as an elective once they reach the Middle School level.

Baltimore, MD | Grades 6-12

The BLSYW Way embodies leadership, girl power, college readiness, high expectations, and a strong support network. Through academics and social-emotional learning, BLSYW students are taught to develop a strong sense of self, sisterhood, compassion, and good decision-making.

Baltimore, MD | Grades PK-8

Baltimore Montessori Public Charter School is a mission-driven school in Greenmount West, the urban heart of Baltimore’s Arts and Entertainment District. Together with our community partners and families, we transformed two vacant buildings and an empty lot, and opened our doors in 2008 as Baltimore’s first public Montessori school. Today, our school features beautiful spaces for learning and play, high-quality learning environments for students beginning at age 3, Seed to Table - our thriving student-powered cooking and gardening program, supportive and visionary leadership, talented and dedicated staff, and a dynamic and engaged parent community.

Baltimore, MD | Grades 6-8

We focus on the health of our students in the following three categories: academic/intellectual health, social/emotional health, and physical/nutritional health. The responsibility of all those connected with The Belair-Edison School—parents, teachers, administrators, board members—is to provide an effective learning environment in which our students can develop a strong sense of self, academic proficiency, and awareness of others.

Baltimore, MD | Grades K-8

The mission of City Neighbors Charter School is to provide an extraordinary public school education with high academic achievement for all students. Our ultimate goal for our school is that through Project Based Learning, Arts Integration, parental involvement and community outreach, the students leave enlivened, with deep awareness of themselves, their families and the outside community, and with the capacity to be good citizens.

Baltimore, MD | Grades K-8

The staff of City Neighbors Hamilton share the goal that every parent has for his/her child: to learn and be successful in school and in life. The educational approach at City Neighbors Hamilton focuses on teaching for thinking and understanding. Using the State Content Standards as an academic framework, we set high expectations for every child. We believe in a project-based learning environment where children can learn more in the process of exploring ideas, making predictions, building models of their ideas, and testing outcomes as they apply their knowledge. Through this process, we encourage children to be empowered by the construction of knowledge, by reflection upon their own lives, and through consideration of what is good for the community at large. As a result, our students become passionate learners as we engage them in work that makes sense to them.

Baltimore, MD | Grades 9-12

City Neighbors High School is a progressive and innovative model that challenges students to the highest level of academic excellence and the highest level of personal and communal good to create our school. We see our students as creative, powerful, and deserving of the deepest respect. We believe in each other at City Neighbors. Together we are creating a school where people are Known, Loved, and Inspired.

Baltimore, MD | Grades 6-12

ConneXions mission is to cultivate academic and artistic excellence, cultural identity, and community awareness in ALL students.We will provide the educational exposure of academics, arts, culture, character, authentic assessments, and applicable opportunities to promote social justice by intentionally providing foundational skills to see student unlock their creative genius, embrace their talents and abilities to become confident and empowered, think critically and question intelligently, navigate unfamiliar, diverse, intimidating, or complex situations, exhibit responsibility for themselves, families, and community, and value their own and others’ humanity

Baltimore, MD | Grades 9 - 12

Coppin Academy is committed to identifying those students from underserved communities to attend our school. We seek to improve academic performance and raise the competency level of each student. We will provide an assessment of each child's strengths and needs, and develop a personalized prescription of activities, services, and programs to foster intellectual, artistic, social, and emotional growth. As a result, students will receive an appropriate educational program which prepares them to enter the workforce or attend college without a need for remediation.

Baltimore, MD | Grades 6-8

The Crossroads School is a public, charter middle school in Baltimore City’s Fells Point operated by Living Classrooms Foundation. Our instructional program emphasizes the mastery of standards-based skills in reading, writing, mathematics, and science and provides students with ongoing opportunities to apply these skills to relevant, hands-on learning projects. Technology, cooperative learning, critical thinking, and real-world application of knowledge are all essential components of the school's core curriculum. Crossroads has a strong school culture where everyone works together to support each other and adhere to the school’s Five Promises: Commitment to Quality, Honor and Integrity, Contribution, Perseverance, and No Excuses. Crossroads students also benefit from an after school program, tutoring, mentoring, student-mastery conferences, and individualized guidance counseling. Our small size, extraordinary faculty, community connections, and unwavering focus on the development of academic and social skills help prepare our students to be successful in high school and beyond.

Baltimore, MD | Grades K-5

Creative City Public Charter School uses Baltimore City’s natural and built environments and communities as a learning foundation. Our elementary school, where teachers, students and parents share governance and cooperate on curriculum and community decisions, builds on the inquisitive nature of children to drive the project-based arts-integrated curriculum, developing self-directed critical thinkers.

Baltimore, MD | Grades PK-8

The Empowerment Academy boasts a rigorous academic program that has high expectations for student learning. We currently use the Common Core State Standards to deliver high quality and rigorous instruction to students. In addition to academics, we teach our students the 6 pillars of character using the Character Counts curriculum.

Baltimore, MD | Grades PK-5

Furman L. Templeton Preparatory Academy through the utilization of a year-round schooling model, provides more consistent opportunities to engage in instruction at the school level. Moreover, the year-round schedule allows the school-based teams time to utilize data to more frequently provide targeted support during the times between sessions to meet the individual needs of the students. The focus on technology allows students the opportunity to interact with hardware not current and/or relevant in many of the homes in the surrounding area. All students have the opportunity to utilize 21st century technology as students in grades 2nd-5th have their own Netbook to assist with accessing the curriculum. Students in Pre-K-1st grades have class iPads and grade level computer labs Our afterschool program provided by The Child First Authority includes intramural sports, academic enrichment, and fine arts activities for all students.

Baltimore, MD | Grades K-5

The Green School is dedicated to creating an educational community that promotes active and engaged learning in our natural environment. We have developed our curriculum so that students in each grade are engaged in a year-long study organized around an essential question, which culminates in an action project in the environment in or around the school. These hands-on environmental projects develop students’ stewardship for the environment while providing an authentic context for the reading, writing, math, science, and social studies concepts and skills learned in the classroom.

Baltimore, MD | Grades 6-12

The Green Street Academy student experience includes a focus on traditional academic success and pre-professional career training. All entering middle school students are assessed, their academic pathways planned, including remediation and counseling, and their progress monitored. The school’s goal is to ensure all students reach grade level in reading and math when they begin high school. High school students continue to fulfill their academic requirements as well as receive pre-professional training, leading to meaningful internships and certifications en route to either higher education or a career path of their choosing.

Baltimore, MD | Grades K-8

The mission of KIPP Baltimore is, “to create and operate high-achieving, college preparatory schools that develop the knowledge, skills, and strengths necessary for our students to succeed in college and in life.” We believe that educating our students in an environment that fosters a college-going culture helps build the mindsets, habits, and skills necessary for a choice-filled life. These mindsets, habits, and skills are combined with our organizational charge to hold ourselves and our students to high expectations, ensuring content mastery so that students can be successful in college preparatory high schools.

Baltimore, MD | Grades 5-8

Trust, respect, responsibility, and joy in learning are the tenants of our school culture. At LMCJ, scholars and teachers are engaged in work that is challenging, adventurous and meaningful. Our scholars are scientists, urban planners, historians and activists; they are investigating community problems and collaborating with peers to develop creative, actionable solutions. Scholars apply their skills and knowledge to real-world issues and make positive change in their communities. At LMCJ, we are committed to developing the whole girl, and helping each scholar achieve her wildest dreams.

Baltimore, MD | Grades K-8

Student learning at Midtown is purposeful and intentional. Students are engaged through compelling topics and build an understanding of their impact on the world around them. Teachers have the autonomy to create learning investigations that engage their students while building the necessary skills for future academic success. Students are also engaged in monitoring their progress and setting academic goals. We want our students to understand that they are the key to their success in school.

Baltimore, MD | Grades

Engages students and families so that they can be effective advocates for themselves and leaders with their communities;

Coordinates services and opportunities that every child needs and deserves to succeed in school as well as services advancing whole child development and growth as well as their parents;

Works to influence/change/reset best practices related to the policies impacting strengthening the focus on student success across public and private sectors – school administration, government agencies, community organizations, etc.

Baltimore, MD | Grades PK-8

Academic achievement and growth remain at the core of what we deliver through a whole child approach, educating our students in an enriching environment that recognizes and celebrates their unique and multi-faceted selves. Our classrooms and learning spaces ensure we are challenging each child at a level commensurate with their ability and providing the necessary academic and non-academic supports and enrichment experiences to develop confidence and a love of learning. Our model of whole child education does not prioritize one interest area or enrichment program, but rather allows students to explore their passions and find their own voice with high quality adult facilitation and support via a range of unique, developmentally appropriate opportunities. The academic offerings reflect personalized learning that fosters curiosity and innovation accomplished

Baltimore, MD | Grades PK-8

Southwest Baltimore Charter School (SBCS) provides students with a rigorous academic program based on the Expeditionary Learning (EL) model. We teach and measure student achievement in three dimensions: mastery of skills and knowledge, Habits of Scholarship (HofS), and quality work. Learning at SBCS is active, challenging, collaborative and meaningful. We integrate the arts into our curriculum, and have a robust Fitness and Adventure program. SBCS also emphasizes the natural world and our students have many opportunities for fieldwork in parks and other natural settings.

Baltimore, MD | Grades PK-8

Our school is operated by Afya Baltimore Inc. The word Afya is Swahili for health, and health is at the heart of what we do at our school. We focus on the health of our students in the following three categories: academic/intellectual health, social/emotional health, and physical/nutritional health. The responsibility of all those connected with Tunbridge—parents, teachers, administrators, board members—is to provide an effective learning environment in which Tunbridge students can develop a strong sense of self, academic proficiency, and awareness of others.

By making the healthy, balanced lifestyle a core part of our mission, we recognize and celebrate the connection between being fit and healthy and being smart with a love of learning. It is our goal to prepare our students for the high school of their choice with these things in mind.