Francis Scott Key Elementary/Middle School, located in Baltimore, is a community school with technology magnet program for city students from grades six through eight. The school offers classes from prekindergarten through grade eight. It enrolls more than 650 students every year and employs over 40 teachers. The school provides a range of services and facilities, including a fully stocked library, lockers, computer laboratories and Internet access, cafeteria, medication and health service, guidance and counseling, and transportation services. Francis Scott Key Elementary/Middle School offers instruction in arts and craft, music, physical education, home economics, English, mathematics, science and social studies. The school conducts several extracurricular activities for students, such as athletics, and child study and student support teams.
The Bryn Mawr School is an independent, nonsectarian all-girls school for grades K-12, with a coed preschool. Founded in 1885, Bryn Mawr is one of the oldest college-preparatory schools for girls in the country. The school's five founders -- M. Carey Thomas, Mary Elizabeth Garrett, Julia Rogers, Mamie Gwinn and Elizabeth King -- were determined to offer girls the opportunity to receive the same quality of education then available to boys. It was a radical idea for its time. Guided by the school's first headmistress, the renowned classicist Edith Hamilton, Bryn Mawr became known as a center for academic rigor and inquiry, and maintains this reputation today. Bryn Mawr raises the bar for our students, and supports them as they strive to reach it. We are the school for those who value education as the key to a successful life, both in college and beyond. We balance superior academics with a nurturing environment, supporting each student at every turn. We are home to a spirited sisterhood where lifelong friendships are formed. Our goal is to help women succeed by empowering them. We are dedicated to providing young women with the opportunities they deserve. Our students question, lead, achieve and succeed, and they are passionate about lifelong learning. They know where they want to go and how to create the lives they want to live. They are creative thinkers. They are confident and resilient. They are dynamic, joyful, energetic, powerful and smart women who care for the world.
