City Springs and Hampstead Hill get Summer Boost Funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies
This summer, City Springs Elementary / Middle School and Hampstead Hill Academy received national funding to address pandemic learning loss this summer. These two BCP charter schools are among the 18 Baltimore charter schools to receive summer 2023 funding from the Bloomberg Philanthropies. Funding is exclusively for charter schools. City Springs and Hampstead Hill are […]
Hampstead Hill Chess Team Competes Nationally
Last month, the Hampstead Hill Academy (HHA) Chess team competed in the three-day, K-6 National Championships, held in Baltimore at the Convention Center on May 12-14. More than 2,100 kids from 38 states gathered to compete. The 19 HHA chess team broke their record from last year, winning 45 hard-fought matches competing against the best […]
Hampstead Hill & Wolfe Street Diamond Match-up
On a sunny afternoon on May 18th, Hampstead Hill Academy (HHA) and Wolfe Street Academy (WSA) faced off against each other on a baseball diamond in Patterson Park. It was the second year the teams from the Baltimore Curriculum Project’s (BCP network of neighborhood conversion charter schools) played each other as part of the new […]
2023 Md. Legislative Session Updates and Funding Approval for Hampstead Hill Academy Expansion
The 2023 Maryland General Assembly Session ended with good news for education in Maryland and for the Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP). As part of the 445th Session of the Maryland General Assembly, BCP’s Hampstead Hill Academy (HHA) was awarded $250,000 from the state budget to be used for the school’s planned expansion and renovation of […]
SCHOOL SPOTLIGHT: Hampstead Hill Academy
Hampstead Hill Academy (HHA) is one of the Baltimore Curriculum Project’s (BCP) oldest and top-performing neighborhood conversion charter schools. BCP began working with HHA in 1996. When the Maryland charter law was established in 2003, HHA became one of the first conversion charter schools in Baltimore City–and is one of Maryland’s highest-achieving charter schools and […]
Hampstead Hill Academy’s 8-Year Recharter
Hampstead Hill Academy (HHA) recently received an eight-year renewal term as a public charter school. The unanimous vote on February 23, 2023, by the Board of School Commissioners, Baltimore City Public Schools, is an incredible accomplishment for HHA students, faculty, staff, parents, and its proud principal, Matt Hornbeck. It’s also gratifying to the Baltimore Curriculum […]
BCP Grads Going Places: Alexis Scott
Alexis Scott, Hampstead Hill Academy (HHA) K-8 student, 2009-18 City College ‘2022 Top 5% of graduating class, IB Diploma and State of Maryland Diploma Attends New York University, Tisch School of the Arts/Clive Davis Institute Major: Recorded Music GPA: 3.7, Performer in 2023 End-of-Semester Showcase Career plans: Work in the music industry as a […]
Brenda Kahn Memorial Award for Educational Excellence
Brian White, longtime 7th grade Math Teacher at Hampstead Hill Academy (HHA), received The Baltimore Curriculum Project’s (BCP) Brenda Kahn Memorial Award for Educational Excellence on January 23, 2023. The award was presented following BCP’s annual symposium, Leading Minds: Challenging Conversations in Public Education, held at Morgan State University. The day included a morning of […]