What Makes The GreenMount School Unique?

Our mission is to provide a creative education for grades K through 8—emphasizing multicultural, cooperative, and experiential learning and supported by strong family participation.

Engaging Academics

All grades and subjects at The GreenMount School follow an instructional model that emphasizes student inquiry, exploration, and experiential learning. We believe that learners of all ages thrive when lessons encourage active participation, provide exciting new challenges, engage personal interests, spark curiosity, inspire wonder, and leave students with fresh questions to answer. From field trips to explore the impact of crabbing on the Chesapeake Bay to projects that investigate the role of music in the civil rights movement, teachers promote deeper understanding of complex systems as students engage in hands-on learning. For more details about our academic program broken down by grade level, see the “Academics” tab on our website.

Intercultural Understanding

Teachers at The GreenMount School work in collaboration with students and parents to create a joyful, safe, and inclusive environment where everyone enjoys a sense of belonging and significance. Intentional lessons in self-awareness, community-care, and intercultural understanding are woven throughout the English Language Arts and Social Studies curriculum in grades K-8. Novels and primary texts written by and about individuals of diverse identities reflect a broad range of perspectives. Highly engaging activities such as performing improv to support perspective taking, conducting research into diverse cultural topics, and debating systems of government help students learn the value of being able to understand, appreciate, and get along with people from all cultures and backgrounds.

Community Programs

At The GreenMount School, decisions are based on current academic research and teachers’ knowledge of children’s social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development at every age. Providing opportunities for students to develop interpersonal skills and grow into their role in the larger community is essential to their sense of wellbeing and ability to learn and grow. Our Buddy Program and Community Day activities provide opportunities for cross-grade level mentorship, teaching, and learning as well as hands-on activities guided by local experts. Service Learning and Thematic Learning engage both the student and parent community in creating connections between classroom instruction and real-world applications. Through our engaged Parent Cooperative, parents enrich the learning environment through presentations on Community Day, watching students perform at Theme Events, chaperoning field trips, and providing in-class support during reading and math groups. For more details about our community programs, see the “Community” tab on our website.

Parent Cooperative

We understand and value that parents play a vital role in helping to foster children’s autonomy, responsibility, and high engagement in learning. Beyond involvement with their own child’s education, each parent contractually agrees to contribute at least 20 hours a year to various aspects of school operations, including admissions, classroom support, facilities improvements, etc. When students see parents and relatives at school working in roles such as classroom assistant or chaperone as well as at home or on weekends baking for admissions events or prepping materials for hands-on activities, they develop an understanding that our entire community is invested in their education.

Our History

The GreenMount School was founded in 1993 by six adventurous parents devoted to a child-centered model of education. What began as a one room parent co-op, has now grown into a thriving school community inhabiting the entire building and grounds of the former Wyman Park Recreation Center in the Remington neighborhood of Baltimore.