Baltimore Polytechnic Institute
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1400 W. Cold Spring Lane Baltimore, Maryland 21209 United States |
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| Coordinates | 39°20′48″N 76°38′41″W / 39.34677°N 76.64469°WCoordinates: 39°20′48″N 76°38′41″W / 39.34677°N 76.64469°W |
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| School type | Public, Secondary, Magnet |
| Motto | Uniting Theory and Practice |
| Founded | 1883 |
| Opened | 1883;1913;1967 (current) |
| School district | Baltimore City Public Schools |
| Superintendent | Dr. Sonja B. Santelises [CEO] |
| School code | 403 |
| President | Marlena Milić '17 |
| Director | Jacqueline Willams |
| Faculty | 88 |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Gender | 49% male; 51% female |
| Enrollment | 1647 |
| Area | Urban |
| School color(s) | Orange and Blue |
| Song | Polytechnic Hymn |
| Fight song | Poly Fight Song |
| Athletics conference | MPSSAA |
| Sports | 23 |
| Mascot | Parrot |
| Nickname | BPI; Poly; The Institute |
| Team name | The Engineers |
| Rivals | Baltimore City College |
| USNWR ranking | 2,167 |
| Newspaper | The Poly Press |
| Yearbook | The Poly Cracker |
| Budget | $10,748,593.00 (fiscal year 2014) |
| Website | www |
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, colloquially referred to as BPI, Poly, and The Institute, is a U.S. public high school founded in 1883. Though established as an all-male trade school, it is now a coeducational institution that emphasizes sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). It is located on a 53-acre (21 ha) tract of land in North Baltimore at the intersection of Falls Road and Cold Spring Lane, bordering Roland Park to the east and I-83 to the west. BPI and Western High School are located on the same campus, share several amenities including a cafeteria, auditorium, and athletic fields, as well as a collaborative marching band, The Marching Flock. BPI is a Maryland Blue Ribbon School of Excellence.
BPI was founded in 1883, after Joshua Plaskitt petitioned the Baltimore City authorities to establish a school for instruction in engineering. The original school was named the Baltimore Manual Training School, and its first class was made up of about sixty students, all of whom were male. The official name of the school was changed in the 1890s to the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. The first principals were Dr. Richard Grady, Lt. John D. Ford, and Lieutenant William King, after whom King Memorial Hall is named. The first building was located on the former site of the old central City Spring on Courtland Street just north of East Saratoga Street of which the area was later contained in Baltimore's first "urban renewal" plan with the tearing down of several blocks of houses along Courtland and Saint Paul Streets to the west and the construction of Preston Gardens and Saint Paul Place from Lexington Street to Centre Street in the north in 1923. The former BPI building became home to the Baltimore City Department of Welfare and was later annexed by neighboring Mercy Hospital on North Calvert Street to the east and later torn down for construction of their first hospital tower in 1964. In 1983, at the school's centennial observation, a historical plaque was placed in the lobby of the hospital commemorating that earlier first home of Poly. It just so happened that this building was across the street and fifty years later after their long-time rival school Baltimore City College was established in a row house in 1839, also on the now vanished Courtland Street
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