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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Patapsco High Senior Wins Poster Contest

Senior Safiya Brown advances to national contest; senior Caleb Harrison earns honorable mention in local competition.

Patapsco High School and Center for the Arts senior Safiya Brown will graduate in June, but she will continue to have a visible presence in Baltimore County Public Schools all next school year. The art student designed a poster and entered it in Baltimore County's magnet school poster competition. Her entry was selected as the countywide winner, which means her artwork will be featured in next year's magnet publications, according to a statement from the school. Brown also advances to the national magnet school poster contest, which is sponsored by Magnet Schools of America. The national winner receives a cash prize and has his or her artwork reproduced in national publications produced by the magnet school association. The big winner will…

Patapsco High Named a National Magnet School of Excellence

The school will be recognized at the Magnet Schools of America conference in Oklahoma in May.

Patapsco High School's 50th academic year has been a golden one in many respects, with educators, administrators and students earning awards and recognition for a variety of accomplishments. School officials are no doubt making room in the trophy case again after hearing the news that Patapsco has been named a Magnet Schools of America School of Excellence. "This nationally recognized award is presented to a very select number of schools across the United States for demonstrating a high commitment to academic standards, curriculum innovation, desegregation/diversity efforts, specialized teaching staffs, and parent and community involvement," Patapsco Magnet Coordinator Liberty Grayek wrote in an email to Dundalk Patch. School Principal …

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