Creative City Public Charter School

 
 

Grades: Kindergarten - 5th Grade
Address: 2810 Shirley Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21215
Phone: 410-642-3600
Website: https://www.creativecityschool.org/

 
 

About Us

What makes us unique

Place-based education uses the local community and environment as a vehicle for learning core skills and exploring questions that are relevant to Baltimore and to students’ lives. Place based education increases student motivation and performance, helps student develop stronger ties to their local environment, and allows the school to make positive change in the community. Place-based education is experience-based, and in kindergarten, play-based. Students will learn about the built environment, infrastructure, residents, businesses, culture, resources, challenges, and the history of the city around them. Examples of place-based projects that incorporate interdisciplinary Common Core standards in our school have included: Personal story-telling in Kindergarten, creating a Podcast about our community in Grade 1, creating an original puppet show featuring native wildlife in Grade 2, creating river otter habitats in Grade 3, and studying our business and government infrastructure will research and role-playing at BizTown in Grades 4 and 5.

Mission and Vision

Creative City Public Charter School uses Baltimore City’s natural and built environments and communities as a learning foundation. Our elementary school, where teachers, students and parents share governance and cooperate on curriculum and community decisions, builds on the inquisitive nature of children to drive the project-based arts-integrated curriculum, developing self-directed critical thinkers.

Programs

  • Free before and after school programming daily

  • Arts Integration

  • Community School

  • Experiential Learning / Project-Based

  • Extracurricular Activities: Chess, Robotics, Step Team, Art Club, and More

  • Individualized Learning

  • Play-Based

  • PTO/PTA

  • Recess Daily

  • Responsive Classroom

  • Restorative Practices

  • Summer Programs

Community

  • Ceasefire Partner School: host quarterly life-affirming events, provide Ambassador training, promote peaceful practice every day.

  • We work very closely with our nearest community association, the Towanda Neighborhood Association on meetings, advocacy, and fundraising.

  • Our Back to School BBQ and our year-end celebration called “Creative CityScape” are well attended by neighbors. We have partnered with MECU, Safe Streets, and the Northwest Bulldogs football league.

  • Annual “We Create” Student Art Show. ALL Creative City students have at least one piece of art on display for a full week, culminating in a family reception and celebration.

How To Apply

Children must be 5 years old on September 1, 2022 to be enrolled in Kindergarten. We do not offer Pre-K. All Creative City applicants must be Baltimore City residents. Please review information before submitting for accuracy; our application process is automated and we are not responsible for incomplete or inaccurate information. We must receive ONE application for each child even if you are submitting applications for siblings. The application deadline for the 22-23 lottery is February 2, 2022. After the lottery on February 10, 2021, the wait list moves in the order in which applications are received.