Pimlico Celebrates its 7th Pinning Ceremony for Middle School Health Science Program with LifeBridge Health
On December 3, 2025, a group of two dozen new Medical Detectives—6th and 7th graders selected for Pimlico Elementary / Middle School’s unique Middle School Health Science Program in partnership with LifeBridge Health—received their pins and white coats. This celebration, which launches their participation in the program, included faculty, family, LifeBridge leaders, and Baltimore elected […]
Love No Ego Program Visits Frederick and Pimlico
Community Partner Spotlight: Unlimited Potential Mentoring
“Be who you needed when you were younger.” Haneef Hardy, founder of the nonprofit Unlimited Potential Mentoring (UPM), lives by those words. This motto also drives his nonprofit, which supports children and teens in Baltimore and his native Philadelphia through three programs. In mid-December, prior to Winter Break, Mr. Hardy and his team launch the […]
Pimlico’s Class of 1960 Returns Home
Over 65 years after they first walked the halls of Pimlico Elementary School, four members of the Class of 1960—Harry Fox, Lois Landsman, Martin Stein, and Donna Wolf—returned to their alma mater for a special visit. The idea began when Martin Stein reached out to Principal Nneka Warren with a photograph from 1959 of the […]
BCP and National Bullying Prevention Month
October is National Bullying Prevention Month, an effort to bring awareness to school communities about the effects of bullying and how to prevent it. With Restorative Practices at the center of each of the six Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) neighborhood conversion charter schools, BCP educators and staff create a safe, supportive learning environment. BCP school […]
Pimlico Student Leaders Receive Governor’s Citation
The Community Helpers Club at Pimlico Elementary / Middle School (PEMS) loves making a difference. This group of middle school leaders, led by Theresa Braxton, PEMS’ Community School Coordinator through the school’s lead agency, Park Heights Renaissance, and Shantel Carter, a PEMS Aducational Associate, plans and leads various projects in the school that benefit fellow […]
Innovative Attendance Incentives
Every student in school, every day. That’s the goal across the network of Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) neighborhood conversion charter schools. For our 30th year, BCP has kicked off an ambitious goal for a critical challenge facing public schools across the nation: chronic absenteeism. We’ve launched a new initiative this year to decrease chronic absenteeism […]
Q&A With Marc Lester, Pimlico’s Restorative Practices Director
New Pimlico Turf Field Coming!
Permits are official and in place for a new turf field and four-lane running track at Pimlico Elementary / Middle School. The new field will feature space for football, lacrosse, soccer, and track and bring even more opportunities for our students and the historic Park Heights community to stay active and thrive. Construction will begin […]
BCP at the NWEA
Each June, educators and administrators from the Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) attend the annual NWEA Fusion conference. The nonprofit NWEA, or the Northwest Evaluation Association, develops and oversees the annual assessments BCP uses to measure and guide its students’ academic performance, the MAP (Measures of Academic Progress) Growth assessments for students. From June 25-27, 2025, […]