Hereford High School in Parkton and George Washington Carver High School in Towson were named National Blue Ribbon Schools in 2016! Congratulations to both Baltimore County high schools! A National Blue Ribbon School, according to the U.S. Department of Education's website, "is based on a school’s overall academic excellence or marked progress in closing achievement [...]
Ten Baltimore County High Schools were named among the most challenging in the Nation according to The Washington Post. Towson High School came in at #15 in Maryland, #343 in the US. Dulaney High School came in at #19 in Maryland, #371 in the US. Hereford High came in at #39, #764 in the US. [...]
Baltimore County Public Schools announced that George Washington Carver Center for Arts and Technology in Towson and Hereford High School were both named Maryland Blue Ribbon Schools this morning! CONGRATULATIONS to both schools! Six schools in Maryland were recognized for 2016, two of them here in Baltimore County! What does this mean? The Blue Ribbon [...]
A new Perry Hall Elementary School will be built, now that the site has been selected by Baltimore County Public Schools. The site of the school is at East Joppa Road and Chapel Hill Roads. The site is currently owned by Baltimore County, but will be turned over to Baltimore County Public Schools. The school [...]
Eight Baltimore County High Schools ranked high in a recent report by the Daily Beast. The Daily Beast came out with their "Top High Schools 2014" list and the Baltimore County High Schools that ranked out of 735 schools were: Eastern Technical High School: 119 George Washington Carver Center for Arts and Technology: 129 Hereford [...]
There are plans for a new Loch Raven Elementary School in Baltimore County. **UPDATE: AS OF JULY 28, 2014, BALTIMORE COUNTY HAS SCRAPPED THE PLANS FOR THE RENOVATION. Read more from the Baltimore Sun article: http://touch.baltimoresun.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-80940737/.** The design and development phase is supposed to go throughout 2014, while demolishment of the current building at the [...]
Towson Elementary Schools are overcrowded, and there will be a second meeting about the issue on Wednesday, June 12, 2013. The first Towson schools overcrowding meeting was on May 16. The Baltimore County Public School 's second input meeting will be Wednesday, June 12, 2013 at 6:30 pm, again at Carver Center for Arts and Technology, 938 [...]
Baltimore County Public Schools are having a meeting about overcrowded Towson Schools on May 16, 2013. The meeting is scheduled to be at Carver Center for the Arts, 938 York Road, Towson, MD 21204. It is scheduled to begin at 5:30pm. Councilman David Marks sent an email to parents of children at West Towson, Ridge [...]
Hampton Elementary School on Charmuth Rd in Lutherville had a visit today from State Comptroller Peter Franchot to see the overcrowding in the school. Hampton was built for a capacity of 307 students. The Towson Times reports that it currently has 496 enrolled students, with eight trailers currently in place, and the playground being torn [...]
Towson High School was named a Maryland Blue Ribbon School of Excellence. It was one of six named in Maryland in 2010, and is the 15th school in Baltimore County to receive the honor, and the third Baltimore County High School to do so. According to the Baltimore County Public Schools article: Blue Ribbon School [...]