Boarding Schools in Maryland

Maryland is the 7th state of the United States. It is located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, sharing borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, the District of Columbia to its south and west, Delaware to its east, and Pennsylvania to its north. It is the 42nd largest and the 9th smallest state, comparable in size to Hawaii.

Its official nickname is Old Line State, which is, according to some historians, a reference to the American soldiers who fought in the 18th century Revolutionary War.
Maryland was the only state that had regular troops that George Washington referred to as soldiers of "The Old Line".

Due to its possession of a wider variety of topography compared to the rest of the states, Maryland is also nicknamed the "America in Miniature". Maryland has arid sand dunes with interspersed with sparse seagrass in the east, pine groves in the mountains and gently rolling hills of oak forest in the Piedmont Region in the west, and low marshlands teeming with wildlife and large bald cypress near the bay in the south.

Maryland has a wide variety of climates because of several factors: its proximity to water, down slope winds providing shelter from northern cold weather, and local variances in elevation. The eastern half of Maryland has a subtropical weather, with hot summers and mild to cool winters. The Piedmont region shares the same characteristics although it sometimes transition to a subtropical highland zone. In western Maryland, the weather is generally mild summers and cool, snowy winters due to higher elevations.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Maryland households are currently the wealthiest in the country, with a 2009 median household income of $69,272. Due to a strong economy, the educational system in Maryland is among the highly developed in the U.S. Owing to its significance in the U.S. history, Maryland has several historic and prominent public and private schools in the country, with the most prominent being the Johns Hopkins University which was founded in 1876.

Maryland's public education system was ranked first in the U.S. in 2012 for four consecutive years, according to Education Week and from the College Board for Advanced Placement performance. In 2008, Maryland had led the U.S. in the percentage of students passing the AP exams, with 23.4% students passing in the AP tests in May 2008.

Maryland State Department of Education
200 West Baltimore Street
Baltimore MD 21201
Tel: (410) 767-0600

Boarding Schools in Maryland

As one of the older states in the U.S., Maryland has a breadth of prominent private boarding schools. There are private boarding schools, Christian schools, and schools that offer alternative education or offer, aside from the educational component, other services intended to help students in several critical areas in development. If you need help finding a school, please click this link.

Here's our list of boarding schools in Maryland.

Georgetown Preparatory School
10900 Rockville Pike
North Bethesda MD 20852
Tel: (301) 493-5000

Georgetown Preparatory School is a Roman Catholic, all boys college preparatory boarding and day school for grades 9 to 12. It is the oldest all boys school in the United States, founded in 1789 by Father John Carroll, the Archdiocese of Baltimore and the first Roman Catholic bishop and archbishop in the United States.

With an acceptance rate of 23%, Georgetown Preparatory School is fairly exclusive, with highly selective admissions. It has a long line of notable alumni, which include Douglas Kennedy, Mark K. Shriver, Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr., Chris Rogers, and many more.

Garrison Forest School
300 Garrison Forest Road
Owings Mills MD 21117
Tel: (410) 363-1500

Garrison Forest School is an all girls college preparatory boarding school, as well as a coeducational preschool for toddlers through kindergarten boys and girls. It was founded in 1910 by Mary Moncrieffe Livingston, a teacher from New York who moved to Maryland.

Since its founding, Garrison Forest School has maintained a high quality level of education, a national boarding reputation and has been a leading experiential learning program for girls in Maryland.