Garrison Forest School
| Garrison Forest School | |
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| Address | |
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300 Garrison Forest Road Owings Mills, Maryland 21117 United States |
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| Coordinates | 39°24′43″N 76°45′56″W / 39.41194°N 76.76556°WCoordinates: 39°24′43″N 76°45′56″W / 39.41194°N 76.76556°W |
| Information | |
| Motto |
Esse Quam Videri (To Be Rather Than To Seem) |
| Established | 1910 |
| Head of school | Kimberley J. Roberts |
| Grades | Pre-K–12 |
| Color(s) | Light Blue and Dark Blue |
| Mascot | Grizzly Bear |
| Team name | Garrison Grizzlies |
| Accreditation |
Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Association of Independent Maryland Schools (A.I.M.S.) |
| Tuition |
Three-Year-Olds (Three mornings a week) $4,880 Three-Year-Olds (Five mornings a week) $6,970 |
| Founder | Mary Moncrieffe Livingston |
| Website | Official GFS Webpage |
Three-Year-Olds (Three mornings a week) $4,880 Three-Year-Olds (Five mornings a week) $6,970
Pre-Kindergarten $12,925 Kindergarten $24,460
Pre-First $24,830
Grades 1-5 $25,390
Grades 6-8 Day $26,315 Grades 9-12 Day $26,890 Grades 8-12 National/International Boarding $50,370
Garrison Forest School (GFS) is a college preparatory school, in Owings Mills, Maryland, near Baltimore, with a nationally distinctive educational model. The school offers a day school for girls, kindergarten through grade 12, as well as a coed program from ages two through Pre-K. The regional, national, and international residential program is for girls in grades 8–12. For Fall 2013, total enrollment is 650 students across four divisions: the Preschool, Lower School, Middle School and Upper School. The school averages about 60 boarding students per year.
In 2014, Dr. Kimberley Roberts was appointed Head of Garrison Forest School. Dr. Roberts succeeded G. Peter O'Neill, Jr., who served in the position for 20 years, from 1994 to 2014.
Located on 116 acres (0.47 km) outside of Baltimore, the school has academic, athletic, arts, residential, and student facilities. Garrison Forest School is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools and the Association of Independent Maryland Schools.
Garrison Forest School has a 1:1 Tablet PC program for grades 4–12. The campus is fully wired, and classroom technology includes a mounted wireless projector in each classroom. Faculty members also use Tablet PCs to sync with students’ Tablets and to provide interactive learning in the classroom.The Upper School and Middle School each have Media centers with iMac computers, scanners, and color printers. The school offers a Robotics program for grades 4-12, and teams compete at the local and state levels.
All Garrison Forest students are required to participate in the athletics program. The school’s athletic facilities include the Elizabeth B. Searle ’74 Athletic Center (opened in 2002), four athletic fields including two turf fields, and six tennis courts. The school’s mascot is the "Grizzly Bear", and the school colors are Light Blue and Dark Blue. The Garrison Forest "Grizzlies" field 13 sports with 42 teams, including three levels of Middle School teams.
Garrison Forest teams compete in the Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland, (a recently established women's sports private/religious schools league), which mirrors the boys' Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association, both of which succeeded the old Baltimore metropolitan area's public/private schools league, the old Maryland Scholastic Association, (MSA) (of which Garrison Forest School was a member), founded 1919 until 1993 when the public high schools of Baltimore City withdrew to join the competing statewide Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association (MPSSAA).
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