Each year, five Baltimore City Public School principals are selected as Awardees at the Heart of the School Awards, an annual event highlighting exceptional principals. The five Awardees are joined by five Honorees, each of whom has demonstrated exemplary innovation, execution, and leadership.
As summer approaches, Mount Royal Elementary/Middle School can proudly reflect on another successful school year. The Golden Eagles continue to thrive with Steve Skeen at the helm.
After a nerve-wracking year of looking for alternatives, the leaders of Midtown Academy last month breathed a sigh of relief and announced that the public charter school will remain at its Bolton Hill location for another couple of years.
Bolton Hill Nursery has appointed a new executive director, Christy Barnes-Toprac, who started her new role in March. Christy has a long-standing relationship with BHN. She served as a teacher and assistant director from 2009-2017 before moving to Austin to become program coordinator for UTeach Fine Arts at the University of Texas.
Bolton Hill’s two remaining public schools scored as well as in pre-pandemic measurements in the 2023 Maryland School Report Card ratings released at year end.
All three public schools located in Bolton Hill maintained their quality levels in a state rating system updated this month for the first time since 2019.
Unity Hall is a new non-profit community-building space on Bolton Hill’s western edge, opening its doors on July 17, 2022. Creating a safe space for the people and organizations in Baltimore is important to what Unity really is and hopes to be.
The Mt. Royal Elementary/Middle School Parent Teacher Organization is working with community artist Herb Massie to design a ceramic mural to be installed on the outside of the school.
Meet Macy Drake. She grew up in South Baltimore and now she runs the Mt. Royal Recreation Center at 120 W. Mosher St., behind –and physically attached to – Mt. Royal Elementary and Middle School.
After months of fundraising and a summer of construction, teachers, students, parents and neighbors will celebrate the bright new version of Mt. Royal Elementary/Middle School school’s sculpture, Nut and Bolt, on Friday, Oct. 7, at 9 a.m. The school is located at 121 McMechen St.
