Eager Street Academy

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Eager Street Academy
Address
Eager Street Academy
926 Greenmount Avenue

,
21202

United States
Coordinates 39°18′3.17″N76°36′26.72″W / 39.3008806°N 76.6074222°W / 39.3008806; -76.6074222
Information
School type Public, Alternative
Founded1998 [1]
School district Baltimore City Public Schools
School number884
PrincipalLaura D'Anna [2]
Grades 612
EnrollmentVariable [3]
Area Urban
Website BCPSS

Eager Street Academy (previously Baltimore City Detention Center, School No. 370 [4] ) is a public, alternative middle-high school serving youth who are incarcerated, located in the Penn-Fallsway neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, United States. [2] The school was launched in 1998 as a collaboration between Baltimore City Public Schools (BCPSS), Maryland State Department of Education and the state's Division of Pretrial Detention and Services, and is a part of the larger city school system. [3] Initially without an official name beyond its numeric designation, the school was given the name "Eager Street Academy" in 2002. [5]

Based inside the Baltimore City Detention Center, an adult detention facility, Eager Street serves students under 18 who have been charged as adults. [6] BCPSS officials have claimed the school is the only public school in the United States located inside of a jail. [3] Classes at the school were initially held in six portable trailers on the grounds of the BCDC, but its classrooms are now located within a purpose-built juvenile detention facility built in 2017. [3] [7]

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