Blue Ribbon: Seven Maryland schools get Blue Ribbon status - baltimoresun.com

Blue Ribbon: Seven Maryland schools get Blue Ribbon status - baltimoresun.com

Seven Maryland schools were designated Thursday as national Blue Ribbon Schools of Excellence, an award given to those with consistently high performance or a high percentage of economically disadvantaged students that have shown significant improvement.

Five of the schools are public, including Eastern Technical High in Baltimore County and Ellicott Mills Middle in Howard County, and two are Catholic.

"This is one of the nation's most significant awards presented to public schools," state schools Superintendent Nancy S. Grasmick said in a statement.

The three other schools in the state are Northern Middle in Calvert County, New Market Elementary in Frederick County and Northwestern Elementary in Wicomico County. The Catholic schools are St. Louis in Clarksville and St. John the Baptist in Silver Spring...