Beginning the search for your perfect neighborhood might be a bit daunting. The menu on the right highlights local areas you might want to consider when arriving in Baltimore. Baltimore City and County offer a wide variety of educational opportunities. Below are a few.

Baltimore City Education:

From pre-school to high school, Baltimore City’s schools serve students and families across more than 225 neighborhoods. Parents and students have numerous choices including public, private, parochial, and charter schools. Many elementary schools are zoned geographically, but are increasingly becoming schools of choice. Currently, all high schools are choice schools and middle schools are becoming schools of choice. This means students can apply to attend any school in the City regardless of their home address; some schools do have admission criteria. All charter schools and Transformation Schools have lotteries for admission.

Most of the children in the Mount Washington community who pursue their high school education in the Baltimore City public school system do so at either of the magnet schools, Baltimore City College or Baltimore Polytechnic Institute.

Baltimore County Education:

Owings Mills and Reisterstown are both served by the Baltimore County Public Schools system.  Schools include New Town, Owings Mills, Franklin, Chatsworth, Cedarmere, Glyndon and Timber Grove Elementary Schools; Franklin or Deer Park Middle Schools; Owings Mills, Franklin or New Town High Schools.  There are also several private schools in the area including McDonough, Garrison Forest, Hannah More, and Sacred Heart.  Owings Mills is also a satellite location for a branch of the Community College of Baltimore County, the ITT Technical Institution, and the recently opened Owings Mills Campus of Stevenson University.        

Pikesville and Mount Washington both offer many education options.  Public schools include Fort Garrison, Milbrook, Bedford, Summit Park, Wellwood International and Mount Washington Elementary Schools; Pikesville and Sudbrook Magnet Middle Schools; and Pikesville and Northwestern High Schools.  For Independent Schools, The Park School, Elementary School of St. Marks, Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School, The Odyssey School, St. Timothy’s School, Kreiger Schechter Day School, Baltimore Hebrew Congregation Day School, and Shoshana S. Cardin School Baltimore’s Independent Jewish High School offer a plethora of parochial and other private school options for k-12 grades.

With regards to Higher Education, the Ner Israel Rabbinical College and Maalot Baltimore: Women’s Institute of Torah Seminary can both be found in Pikesville.  
        

Towson, Lutherville and Timonium residents are served by the Baltimore County Public Schools.  Rodgers Forge, Stoneleigh, Riderwood, Hampton, Lutherville Laboratory Magnet School, Pot Spring, Timonium, Pinewood, and West Towson Elementary Schools; Ridgely Middle School; and Dulaney Towson, and Loch Raven High Schools.  The Carver Center for Arts and Technology is a local magnet school.  Also located in Towson is Ridge Ruxton School, a special education school serving the central area of Baltimore County, including Reisterstown, Owings Mills, Parkville, Cockeysville, and Hunt Valley.  The private schools in the area include Calvert Hall College High School, Loyola Blakefield, Baltimore Lutheran School, and Notre Dame Preparatory School.  With regards to Higher Education, you will find Towson University and Goucher College.