Guilford School

The Guilford Elementary/Middle School is our neighborhood public school located at Kernwood and Old Cold Spring, 4520 York Road, Baltimore, 21212. The telephone is 410.396.6358.

Click here for our Fall, 2006 update, including information about Guilford's new VISTA, Delores Anderson.

Second Presbyterian has a strong mission partnership with the school that encompasses the children, the teachers, the administrators and the actual facility. 

Gone are the days just a few years ago when Second Presbyterian felt all alone at the Guilford School, as Jan and Jim Callison can attest. Partnerships are flourishing to the point it is hard to always have enough space for the after-school activities. Here is what is going on there!!

Greater Homewood Community Corporation furnishes seventeen Adult Experience Corps Volunteers. (See the Baltimore Messenger, Week of November 24 front-page picture and article about a well known Hopkins University retiree and Guilford neighbor who is a regular in the classroom.) The article is also posted on the church Guilford School Bulletin Board.

Loyola College sends 30 students to do classroom assistance 2-3 hours a week. They also do fundraising in their dorms and use the proceeds for trips and events for Guilford students.

Towson University provides tutors and materials for an after-school math tutoring program called America Counts. The students are 5 th –8 th graders falling steadily behind.

Goucher College students come after school and work in the Guilford Learns program to help the 1 st-5 th graders with their homework while making friends as well.

Baltimore Tennis Patrons provide one hour of tennis instruction and one hour of supervised homework after-school Monday through Thursday.

Pen Lucy Action Network (PLAN) actively provides sports, tutoring, music, and computer programs after school and on weekends at their neighborhood location. A large majority of Guilford children reside in the Pen Lucy neighborhood.

Big Brother Big Sisters of Central Maryland are providing tutors for fourth graders. The tutors are employees of CITI Bank who come at lunchtime, eat, visit, and study one on one.

The Museum of Ceramic Art provides materials and pays for an instructor for an after-school program ceramics class.

Baltimore City Council members Ken Harris and Mary Pat Clarke are working advocates for the school’s improvement and send staff members to Guilford school meetings.

Of course, someone from Second Presbyterian is involved every day tutoring, coaching the Academic Team, reading to students and working in the library, buying supplies for the playground and the copy machines, donating basic supplies such as paper and pencils, serving on school committees, and just being friends when they ask us.

Dr. Waters-Scofield and Mrs. Coleman

Faculty

Sue Leber helping with eye testing.

Top left: Guilford School, Baltimore
Top right: Mural in Guilford School's Library Hallway