Baltimore Schools

South Baltimore has some of the best public elementary and middle schools in the Entire Baltimore Metropolitan Area.

The Baltimore City Public Schools has charge of the education for 80,000+/- of Baltimore’s school children. The Baltimore public school system maintains about 162+/- schools in all neighborhoods of the city. From the City Schools Website: “City Schools is committed to ensuring that all students graduate from high school ready for college, career training, and life success in the 21st century.”

Where would you like to learn – or have your child learn?

Thomas Johnson Elementary/Middle School #84 – 100 E. Heath Street, 410-396-1575
“TJ” is a traditional neighborhood school serving grades Pre-K to 8. This top-performing school has been recognized by the State of Maryland with an “Excellence in Gifted and Talented Education” award.

Thomas Johnson Elementary / Middle School #84
Thomas Johnson Elementary / Middle School #84

Francis Scott Key Elementary/Middle School #76 – 1425 E. Fort Avenue. 410-396-1503
“FSK” is a traditional neighborhood school, serving grades Pre-K through 8, that also has an “Advanced Academics” program open to middle school students from across the city (admitted based on entrance criteria). Click for a Brief History of FSK.

Federal Hill Preparatory Academy Elementary School #45 – 1040 William Street. 410-396-1207
Fed Hill Prep is a traditional neighborhood elementary school serving grades Pre-K to 5 and has been recognized by the State of Maryland with an “Excellence in Gifted and Talented Education” award.

Digital Harbor High School #416 – 1100 Covington Street, 410-396-1500
The former “Southern High” is now a traditionally managed neighborhood and city-wide innovative technology-focused high school serving grades 9-12. Students take preparatory courses for entry to college, prepare for technology careers, and can earn industry-level certification.

Trivia Moment: When seniors graduate from Digital Harbor and other public high schools where do you think they go? College, work, military, nowhere? Yes, yes, yes and, unfortunately, yes – eventually. But first many of them head to the beach in Ocean City, MD, for seven days of celebratory glee, called Senior Week.

Catholic Community School of South Baltimore – No longer exists. Such a shame.

Coppin State College – 2500 W. North Avenue • Baltimore, MD 21216 (410) 951-3000 • Admissions Phone Number: (410) 951-3600 • 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.

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Baltimore News Digest

A daily dose of South Bmore area news curated from around the Web.

This feature is provided by the Internet news curation services of the Paper.li organization. The news feed is refreshed daily at 9:00 AM and 9:00 PM.

Note, please: This feature is on temporary hiatus (until we find a better source).

This feature is sourced and provided by the Internet news curation services of the Paper.li organization. While not all articles that are presented on a daily basis are Baltimore-specific, they should all have some relevance to Bmore residents and those interested in the area.

News Digest Sample from Paper.li – 02/14/22.

The Paper.li news-gathering organization (to quote their website) “uses natural language processing, machine learning and social signals to analyze and extract the most relevant and engaging stories from social media and the web.”

Launched in the last millennium, SouthBaltimore.com has been online since May, 1999, and has served as an information source for more than two decades. This latest feature now provides news content for the Baltimore area and presents curated articles refreshed twice every day. New articles are pushed from Paper.li to this page at 9:00 AM and again at 9:00 PM. Most of the stories and articles are curated from known news sources and give a bit of a headline – with a click-through to the full article at the original source.

Port Covington

A brief look at the southern shore of the South Baltimore Peninsula.

About time, right?

Port Covington Real Estate Domain Header

The first iteration of the PortCovington.com website was recorded by the Internet Archive “Wayback Machine” on February 2, 2004, just over a week after the domain was registered. As near as we can tell, this was the first website solely about Port Covington and its role as a South Baltimore “neighborhood” among the myriad neighborhoods in the City of Baltimore and on the Baltimore peninsula south of the Inner Harbor.

The small bit of narrative was much as the “intro” to the site today. It reads: “In mid-2002, the world’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart, opened its first Baltimore City stores at Port Covington in the South Baltimore area. Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club are the first retailers to locate in the new Port Covington Shopping Center , a 60-acre, waterfront site on East Cromwell Street. Several hundred City jobs were created when the 142,000 square foot Wal-Mart and the 130,000 square foot Sam’s Club opened their doors. This strategically-located retail development at the site of a former City rail yard has come a long way – but has a long way yet to go. Watch for further development of this “newest” of waterfront destinations.”

Here is the original post: The First Port Covington Website
Here is the original “About” page: About PortCovington.com

Of course, big things are happening today. That can all be seen at the website for the development project – some call it Personal Computer City, based on the (strange) domain name they chose, PC.City or PortCovington.city. (Side Note: We can only imagine that the Intel Corporation loves that choice of domain name – the common understanding of “PC” is either Politically Correct or it means Personal Computer, aka PC. Because dot-com is still the defacto standard for serious commercial websites, tons of people will type in PC.com instead of PC.city.) (Side note #2: Don’t even get me started on email errors.)

So what’s in the future for PortCovington.com? One day, once the building out has reached a level where leases are in place and a thriving business and residential community exists – the site will be re-launched as a robust website for the Port Covington Community, then and now.

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