50-Plus Baltimore Schools Without AC Dismissed Early Due To Heat

BALTIMORE, MD — Schools in Baltimore without air conditioning closed early on Wednesday, Sept. 4. Officials made the announcement Wednesday morning and attributed the decision to high temperatures in the forecast.

Dismissal time Wednesday was two hours earlier than scheduled for schools that lacked air conditioning, officials said. The early dismissals applied only at schools where there was no air conditioning or where air-conditioning systems were in disrepair.

The temperature in Baltimore was 90 degrees and felt like it was 96 degrees at 2 p.m., according to the National Weather Service.

These are the schools without air conditioning, according to Baltimore City Public Schools:

• Afya Public Charter School
• Augusta Fells Savage Institute
• Baltimore City College
• Baltimore Montessori Public Charter School
• Baltimore Polytechnic Institute
• Belmont Elementary School
• Bluford Drew Jemison STEM Academy West
• Booker T. Washington Middle School
• Calverton Elementary/Middle School
• City Springs Elementary/Middle School
• Claremont School
• Collington Square Elementary/Middle School
• Cross Country Elementary/Middle School
• Curtis Bay Elementary/Middle School
• Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle School
• Edgecombe Circle Elementary School
• Edgewood Elementary School
• Edmondson-Westside High School
• Empowerment Academy
• Eutaw-Marshburn Elementary School
• Franklin Square Elementary/Middle School
• Frederick Douglass High School
• Furley Elementary School
• George Washington Elementary School
• Graceland Park/O'Donnell Heights Elementary Middle School
• Harlem Park Elementary/Middle School
• Hazelwood Elementary/Middle School
• Hilton Elementary School
• The Historic Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Elementary School
• Holabird Elementary/Middle School
• Johnston Square Elementary School
• Lois T. Murray Elementary/Middle School
• Mary E. Rodman Elementary School
• Matthew A. Henson Elementary School
• Midtown Academy
• Montebello Elementary/Middle School
• Mount Royal Elementary/Middle School
• The Mount Washington School (lower building)
• National Academy Foundation
• New Era Academy
• Northwood Appold Community Academy
• Northwood Elementary School
• Patterson High School
• Renaissance Academy
• Sharp-Leadenhall Elementary School
• Southwest Baltimore Charter School
• Thomas Jefferson Elementary/Middle School
• Vanguard Collegiate Middle School
• Walter P. Carter Elementary/Middle School
• Western High School
• William S. Baer School
• Windsor Hills Elementary/Middle School
• Yorkwood Elementary School
• Youth Opportunity

All other schools dismissed at the usual time, according to Baltimore City Public Schools.

Wednesday was the second day of the academic year; schools started Tuesday, Sept. 3.

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