Park School of Baltimore

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The Park School of Baltimore
Park gymnasium.jpg
Park's Athletic Center
Address
Park School of Baltimore
2425 Old Court Rd

Baltimore
,
MD
21208

United States
Coordinates 39°23′34″N76°40′34″W / 39.3929°N 76.676°W / 39.3929; -76.676
Information
Founded1912
PrincipalMatt Doyle [1] (Lower School)
Joshua Wolf (Middle School)
Traci Wright (Upper School)
Head of schoolDaniel Paradis
GradesPre-K to 12
GenderCo-Ed
Age range4–18
LanguageEnglish
Color(s)Brown and white
SloganLearn to Think
SongPark School
MascotBruin
NewspaperThe Postscript
YearbookThe Brownie
MottoStrive On!
Website http://www.parkschool.net

The Park School of Baltimore, known as Park, is a private, coeducational, non-sectarian, progressive day school for children in Pre-Kindergarten (age 4) through grade twelve. Park is located in Brooklandville, Maryland, near the city of Baltimore.

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History

Park was founded in 1912 as a private K-12 school based on the principles of progressive education developed by John Dewey and others. [2] [3] [4]

The creation of the school was spurred by the firing of Baltimore City’s progressive Superintendent of Schools James Hixon Van Sickle by newly elected Mayor James H. Preston in 1911. [5] At the time the city’s private schools had quotas severely restricting the number of Jewish students admitted, and so Park adopted a policy of accepting all religions. [6]

Park opened its doors to 98 students on September 30, 1912, in a three-story townhouse in the Auchentoroly Terrace Historic District across from Druid Hill Park. It was advertised as “A Country School in the City.” [7] [8]

As the school grew, it moved to a group of buildings on Liberty Heights Avenue in 1917. [9]

In 1950, Park’s student council passed a resolution calling for the school to "accept any applicant for admission, regardless of race, color or creed." [10] In June 1954, one month after U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision desegregating public schools, Park's Board of Trustees voted "to receive any applications from any family suitable in interest and ambition," becoming the first private school in the city to do so. Black students began attending Park in 1955. [4]

In 1959, Park moved to its current 100-acre campus on Old Court Road in Baltimore County. The school has undergone multiple expansions in recent years. More recent renovations include a new wing for science, mathematics, and technology in 1997; an Athletic Center in 2001; a new visual and dramatic arts wing in 2003; and a new science wing in 2023. [11] [4] [12]

In 2018, the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit alleging that Park discriminated on the basis of gender in employment decisions it made about sports coaches. [13] The EEOC alleged that Park School violated federal anti-discrimination laws when it told a male softball coach that "it would not renew his contract for the 2017 softball season because of its 'preference for female leadership.'" [14] Park School settled the lawsuit in 2019 for $41,000. [14]

Notable faculty and staff

Notable alumni

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