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You can help support Creative City Public Charter School’s mission!

Your tax-deductible contribution to Creative City Public Charter School supports an innovative educational model that connects students to Baltimore City and to nature through art, hands-on learning, and participation in a diverse & cooperative school community.

We are a young school and still growing. The amount of funding we receive from the school district per student is supplemented by private fundraising to allow our unique model to come to life. Your support makes a difference today to provide field trips, artists-in-residence, and other programs and opportunities.

Gifts of any size make a difference. For instance:

$250 rents a school bus for a field trip
$100 supports a visiting artist in delivering one arts-integrated classroom lesson
$75 buys a document camera for a classroom
$50 provides our Culinary Lab with raw ingredients for one month
$25 buys a set of 6 independent reading books
$10 replenishes dry erase markers for one classroom

A Creative City cook book by Chef Jennifer Crisp and Abby Bennett

*** Buy your copy of “The Creative Palate” today!***

To purchase our cook book, produced with our students by our own Chef Jennifer Crisp and community artist Abby Bennett, click the “Buy Now” button above on this page.  Books can be picked up in person for a donation $15 or shipped to you for a donation of $19 (includes $4 shipping & handling cost). Questions? Call 443-642-3602 or email MCanino@bcps.k12.md.us. All proceeds support ongoing Creative City programs.

Are you supporting Creative City while you shop?  Click on the links below for more information!

Giant  Target  Amazon  Box Tops for Education

Welcome to our school community! You are an important and integral part of the Creative City family. We hope you enjoy the resources and information on our web site – and encourage you to ask us if you find something missing!

Our updated Creative City Handbook will be available here shortly. Here are electronic copies of the information sent home in our 2016-17 Back to School Mailing:

Coming and Going from School 2016

FAQ 2016

Get Involved 2016

School Supplies 2016

After Care 2016

Don’t forget that Kindergarten students will begin with a staggered entry schedule.  Staggered entry means that Kindergarteners will attend ONLY an AM or PM session on one of the first two days of school. This gives our students and teachers a chance to start forming relationships with a smaller group of students at a time, and helps students slowly transition into their new school routines. Kindergarteners‘ next day of school will be on Wednesday, August 31, and dismissal on that day will be at 12:45pm as it is on all Wednesdays. Specific staggered entry day & time were sent home in your Back to School Mailing.  Please contact us at 443-642-3600 if you are registered to begin Kindergarten and do not know your staggered entry assignment. (All other grades are full days from the first day of school.)

NOW ACCEPTING LOTTERY APPLICATIONS FOR THE 2017-18 SCHOOL YEAR! CLICK HERE.

Creative City Public Charter School is a progressive charter elementary school in northwest Baltimore City. With small classes and a focus on the arts, students connect with nature and their community through hands-on projects and exploration.  We are open to all students in Baltimore City. Students are chosen by lottery, not by grades or test scores.  For more information, click here.

CREATIVE CITY STUDENT ARTISTS ARE ALL OVER MARYLAND!

• Second-grader Mehki L’s artwork was one of three pieces selected to represent Baltimore City Public Schools at the “Making Your Mark” juried youth art show at Thurgood Marshall, Baltimore Washington International Airport. The show will be on display from late May until November of this year.
• Ms. Gordy’s class wrote a play, “Foxy Grandpa,” that was performed in May as part of the Young Playwright’s Festival. It was chosen from a field of 600 applicants, and a monologue by Gregg G. in Ms. Brown’s class was also performed.
• Amani M. and Henry W. (first grade) and Triniece C. and Samantha S. (third grade) were featured in the regional “For Your Inspiration” exhibit at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
• Amani M., in Ms. Mongan’s first grade class, and Celia G., in Ms. Carver’s third grade class, created two of only eight Baltimore City works selected for an exhibit at the State Treasury building in Annapolis, MD.
• Third grade student Teneille W.’s artwork, a print mural created by Ms. Brown’s second grade students, and hand-bound books containing prints and monologues by Ms. Carver’s third grade students are all included in the Arts Everyday exhibit, “My Baltimore,” at the Walters Art Museum.
• For the third time in a row, a Creative City student artist won the Mayor’s Holiday Card competition.  This year’s card featured Zephyr C.’s artwork featuring mittens.
• Watch second-grader Earl L. give the weather on Fox 45 News on YouTube!  (You may think this is not art-related, but just wait for the dancing to start.)

DONATE

Tax-deductible contributions help us offer our students more — more field trips, more exposure to real live practicing artists, and more programs.  You can contribute online here.

The Creative City Public Charter School is a new, progressive, charter elementary school that includes small classes, hands-on learning, and arts education. Our school is founded by a group of parents, and opened in the fall of 2013 .

SCHOOL MISSION

The 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.

SCHOOL VISION

Young people will be collaborative learners and creative thinkers who become leaders, active citizens, effective communicators, and good stewards of their environment.

QUICK FACTS

• Full enrollment K-5, with plans to expand to K-8
• 22 students per class
• 3 classes per grade
• Full enrollment (K-5): 396

We are very excited about the many ways that school families and community members can get involved with our school.  From volunteering to donating needed funds to helping support special projects, there are many opportunities!

For more information about volunteering, click here.

To make a financial contribution, click here or donate now.

• Our school benefits from participating in many programs including Box Tops for Education, Giant Rewards A+ Program, Target RedCard Take Charge of Education, and Amazon Smile.
• We are beginning a small food pantry and will gratefully accept donations of nonperishable food to keep on hand for families who may need assistance.
• We will gladly accept donations of art supplies to distribute to our classrooms
• We regularly collect children’s books in good condition to make available to our school families who are building their child’s home library.