Calvert School
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Baltimore, MD USA |
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| Type | Private Day school |
| Motto | Curiosity, Mastery, Purpose |
| Established | 1897 |
| Headmaster | Andrew Holmgren |
| Faculty | 72 (42 K-4, 30 5-8) |
| Enrollment | 602 total (362 K-4, 240 5-8) |
| Campus | Urban, 13 acres (5.3 ha) |
| Color(s) | Black and Gold |
| Athletics | 20 sports |
| Athletics conference | MIAA |
| Mascot | Mighty Bees |
| Website | calvertschoolmd.org |
Calvert School, founded in 1897, is an independent, secular, co-educational lower and middle school located in Baltimore, Maryland. Calvert School is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) as well as the Association of Independent Maryland and DC Schools (AIMS).
Established in 1896 when four Baltimore families hired German school teacher Fraulein Martha Auguste Schurmann to conduct traditional kindergarten classes for their children, Calvert School continues to build upon the foundation laid by Fraulein Schurmann. The first children were taught above Croft and Conlyn’s drug store. In 1899, Calvert School hired its first Head Master, Virgil M. Hillyer, a Harvard graduate.
Calvert School’s current Lower School on Tuscany Road was designed by Hillyer along with Laurence Hall Fowler. They worked together to create the ‘ideal school’. Hillyer believed that the school should be designed with the student in mind. Hillyer insisted on larger windows so that rooms would be pleasant to children and let in light and air. He also made sure that the smallest details were not overlooked, such as the ends of benches in the assembly hall were carved with animals. Hillyer based the animals on figures used on buildings in the Middle Ages to ward off evil spirits. Even the lockers were decorated with a pear or jug or a cup and saucer, each to illustrate one of Hillyer’s favorite lessons. Many of the details that Hillyer influenced are still apparent in the school in present day.
1896 – Issac Dixon and his wife start a German kindergarten for four children in the Dixon home on Park Avenue
1897 – Boys’ and Girls’ Primary School is inaugurated with fifteen children
1899 – School name formally changed to “Calvert Primary School of Baltimore City”
1901 – Students move to 10 West Chase Street building with a rooftop garden
1903 – The first graduating class of Calvert School
1907 – The original Calvert silhouetted head logo created
1924 – Calvert School moves to Tuscany Road location
1979 – Calvert expands space to include Library, Science, Art, and Planetarium
1987 – Luetkemeyer Wing opens
1997 – Calvert celebrates its Centennial
2000 - Calvert School’s Board of Trustees approved the addition of a Middle School
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