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The Association of Independent Maryland and DC Schools is an American nonprofit education organization representing 120
independent school An independent school is independent in its finances and governance. Also known as private schools, non-governmental, privately funded, or non-state schools, they are not administered by local, state or national governments. In British Eng ...
s in the US state of
Maryland Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to ...
and the
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. Based in Glen Burnie, Maryland, it was founded in 1967 as the Association of Independent Maryland Schools (AIMS) and is a member of the
National Association of Independent Schools The National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) is a U.S.-based membership organization for private, nonprofit, K-12 schools. Founded in 1962, NAIS represents independent schools and associations in the United States, including day, boar ...
(NAIS) and the International Council Advancing Independent School Accreditation (ICAISA). The Association provides accreditation services for its member schools as well as support for professional and institutional development. It also organizes regional employment Fairs, and it acts as a public advocate for the independence of its members from government regulation.


Member schools


Maryland

* Calverton School, Huntingtown (PK-12) *The Country School, Easton (K-8) *Friends Meeting School, Ijamsville (K-12) *
Worcester Preparatory School Worcester Preparatory School is an independent coeducational preparatory school in Berlin, Worcester County, Maryland in the United States. The school is divided into a preschool and kindergarten, serving approximately 50 students, a lower schoo ...
, Berlin (PK-12)


Anne Arundel County, Maryland

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Archbishop Spalding High School Archbishop Spalding High School is a private, Catholic co-educational high school located in Severn, Maryland, USA. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore. Most of its students live in Annapolis, Crownsville, Arnold, Pasad ...
, Severn (9-12) *Chesapeake Montessori School, Annapolis (PK-8) *
Indian Creek School Indian Creek School is a coeducational, university-preparatory school in Crownsville, Maryland. It serves students from pre-kindergarten through grade 12. History Founding Indian Creek School was founded in September 1973 by educators Anne C ...
, Crownsville (PK-12) * The Key School, Annapolis (PK-12) *Naval Academy Primary School, Annapolis (PK-5) *Saint Andrew's United Methodist Day School, Edgewater (PK-8) *St. Anne's School of Annapolis, Annapolis (PK-8) *St. Martin's-in-the-Field Episcopal School (PK-8) * Severn School, Arnold/Severna Park (PK-12) *The Summit School, Edgewater (1-8)


Baltimore, Maryland

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Baltimore Lab School Baltimore Lab School is a nonpublic school for bright children in grades 1–12. Baltimore Lab School provides a unique educational opportunity for students with moderate-to-severe learning differences. Baltimore Lab School is located in Baltimo ...
(1-12) * Boys' Latin School of Maryland (K-12) *
Bryn Mawr School Bryn Mawr School, founded in 1885 as the first college-preparatory school for girls in the United States, is an independent, nonsectarian all-girls school for grades PK-12, with a coed preschool. Bryn Mawr School is located in the Roland Park co ...
(PK-12) *
Catholic High School of Baltimore The Catholic High School of Baltimore is a private, all-girls, Roman Catholic high school in Baltimore, Maryland. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore. Background The Catholic High School of Baltimore is a sponsored inst ...
(9-12) *The Community School (9-12) * Cristo Rey Jesuit High School (9-12) *
Friends School of Baltimore Friends School of Baltimore is a private Quaker school in Baltimore, serving students in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. One of the prestigious Roland Park 5 Preparatory Schools, Friends has been described by author Judy Colbert as "a challen ...
(PK-12) *
Gilman School Gilman School is an all-boys independent school located in the Roland Park neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. There are three school divisions: Lower School, grades pre-kindergarten through five; Middle School, grades six through eight; and Upp ...
(PK-12) *The GreenMount School (K-8) * Mercy High School *Mother Seton Academy (6-8) *
Mount Saint Joseph High School Mount Saint Joseph College (commonly MSJ or Mount Saint Joe) is a Catholic college preparatory school and secondary school / high school for young men from ninth to twelfth grade sponsored by the Xaverian Brothers and founded in 1876. It is locate ...
(9-12) * Roland Park Country School (PK-12) *St. Ignatius Loyola Academy (5-8) *Sisters Academy of Baltimore (5-8) *
Waldorf School of Baltimore The Waldorf School of Baltimore is a private, co-education school that was established in 1971 under the name New Morning School. It is located in the Cold Spring Newtown community, Baltimore, Maryland. It adopted the Waldorf curriculum in 1972 a ...
(PK-8)


Baltimore County, Maryland

* Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School, Pikesville (PK-12) * Calvert Hall College High School, Towson (9-12) *Cambridge School, Towson (K-8) * Concordia Preparatory School, Towson (6-12) *
Garrison Forest School Garrison Forest School (GFS) is a non-denominational private college preparatory boarding and day school located on a campus in Owings Mills, Maryland. GFS offers kindergarten through 12th grade for girls as well as a co-educational program for ...
, Owings Mills (PK-12) *Greenspring Montessori School, Lutherville-Timonium (PK-9) *Jemicy School, Owings Mills (1-12) *Krieger Schechter Day School, Pikesville (K-8) *
Loyola Blakefield Loyola Blakefield is a private Catholic, college preparatory school run by the USA East Province of the Society of Jesus in Towson, Maryland and within the Archdiocese of Baltimore. It was established in 1852 by the Jesuits as an all-boys school f ...
, Towson (6-12) *
Maryvale Preparatory School Maryvale Preparatory School is a Catholic, independent school for girls in grades six through 12. Affiliated with the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, Maryvale is located in Lutherville, Maryland. It is also affiliated with the Roman Catholic Archd ...
, Lutherville (6-12) *
McDonogh School McDonogh School is a private, coeducational, PK-12, college-preparatory school founded in Owings Mills, Maryland, United States in 1873. The school is named after John McDonogh, whose estate originally funded the school. The school now enrolls ...
, Owings Mills (PK-12) * Notre Dame Preparatory School (6-12) *The Odyssey School, Stevenson (K-8) *Ohr Chadash Academy, Baltimore (PK-8) *
Oldfields School Oldfields School is a college preparatory school for girls in grades 8 through 12 in Sparks Glencoe, Maryland. It was founded in Baltimore County, Maryland in 1867 by Anna Austen McCulloch and is the oldest girls' boarding school in Maryland. ...
, Sparks Glencoe (8-12) *
Park School of Baltimore The Park School of Baltimore, known as Park, is a private, coeducational, non-sectarian, progressive day school for children in Pre-Kindergarten (age 4) through grade twelve. Park is located in Brooklandville, Maryland, near the city of Baltimo ...
, Brooklandville (PK-12) *St. James Academy, Monkton (PK-8) *St. Paul's Schools, Brooklandville (K-12) * St. Timothy's School, Stevenson (9-12)


Carroll County, Maryland

*Gerstell Academy, Finksburg (PK-12) *Montessori School of Westminster, Westminster (PK-9)


Harford County, Maryland

* Harford Day School, Bel Air (PK-8) *The Highlands School, Bel Air (K-12) * The John Carroll School, Bel Air (9-12)


Howard County, Maryland

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Glenelg Country School Glenelg Country School is a nonsectarian, co-educational independent day school in Howard County, Maryland, adjacent to Columbia, Maryland and between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. The School offers a continuous college-preparatory program from ...
, Ellicott City (PK-12) *St. John's Parish Day School, Ellicott City (PK-5) *Trinity School, Ellicott City (PK-8)


Kent County, Maryland

*Kent School, Chestertown (PK-8) *Radcliffe Creek School, Chestertown (PK-8)


Montgomery County, Maryland

* Academy of the Holy Cross, Kensington (9-12) *Alef Bet Montessori School, Bethesda (PK/K) *Barnesville School of Arts & Sciences, Barnesville (PK-8) * Barrie School, Silver Spring (PK-12) *
Bullis School Bullis School is an independent, co-educational college preparatory day school for grades K-12. The school is located in Potomac, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C. History Bullis was founded in Washington D.C. in 1930 by Commander Willia ...
, Potomac (K-12) *
Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School The Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School, often referred to as CESJDS or JDS, is a private, pluralistic Jewish JK-12 school located in two campuses in North Bethesda ( Rockville postal address), Maryland, United States.
, Rockville (PK-12) *Christ Episcopal School, Rockville (PK-8) *Concord Hill School, Chevy Chase (PK-3) * Connelly School of the Holy Child, Potomac (6-12) *Diener School, Potomac (K-6) *Evergreen School, Silver Spring (PK-3) * Georgetown Preparatory School, North Bethesda (9-12) *Grace Episcopal Day School, Kensington (PK-5) *Green Acres School, North Bethesda (PK-8) *The Harbor School, Bethesda (PK-2) * Holton-Arms School, Bethesda (3-12) * Landon School, Bethesda (3-12) * Mater Dei School, Bethesda (1-8) *
McLean School of Maryland McLean School (formerly the McLean School of Maryland) is a K-12 co-educational, college preparatory school located in Potomac, Maryland. History Founded in 1954 by Lenore and Delbert Foster, McLean School is an independent, coeducational, coll ...
, Potomac (K-12) * Norwood School, Bethesda (PK-8) * Our Lady of Good Counsel High School, Olney (9-12) *The Primary Day School, Bethesda (PK-2) *
Rochambeau French International School Rochambeau The French International School of Washington DC is a private French international school in Montgomery County, Maryland, near Washington, D.C. It maintains its administrative headquarters and its secondary campus in Bethesda, a presc ...
, Bethesda (PK-12) * St. Andrew's Episcopal School, Potomac (PK-12) *St. John's Episcopal School, Olney (PK-8) * Sandy Spring Friends School, Sandy Spring (PK-12) *
Seneca Academy and Circle School Darnestown is a United States census-designated place (CDP) and an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland. The CDP is with the Potomac River as its southern border and the Muddy Branch as much of its eastern border. Seneca Creek bo ...
, Darnestown (PK-5) * Sidwell Friends School (Lower School), Bethesda (PK-5) *
Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart is a Catholic, independent, college preparatory school, founded in 1923, in the Network of Sacred Heart schools for girls. The school offers grades 1-12 and a co-educational early childhood program. History ...
, Bethesda (PK-12) *Washington Episcopal School, Bethesda (PK-8) *
Washington Waldorf School The Washington Waldorf School is a private K-12 school in Bethesda, Maryland, just north of Washington, D.C., on a 6-acre campus the school rents from Montgomery County. As a Waldorf school, the curriculum is based on the educational philosophy o ...
, Bethesda (PK-12) *
The Woods Academy The Woods Academy is an independent, Catholic, preschool, elementary school, and middle school for girls and boys ages three through fourteen, with an enrollment, as of the 2019–20 school year, of 261 students. The school is located on six acre ...
, Bethesda (PK-8)


Prince George's County, Maryland

*Friends Community School, College Park (K-8) *Holy Trinity School, Glenn Dale/Bowie (PK-8) *
St. Vincent Pallotti High School St. Vincent Pallotti High School, usually called Pallotti, is a private Catholic school in eastern Laurel, Maryland. It was founded by the Pallottines in 1921 and is within the Archdiocese of Washington. Pallotti is a co-ed school serving young ...
, Laurel (9-12)


Queen Anne's County, Maryland

* The Gunston School, Centreville (9-12) *Wye River Upper School, Centreville (9-12)


Washington DC

*Aidan Montessori School (PK-6) * Beauvoir School (PK-3) *Capitol Hill Day School (PK-8) *
Edmund Burke School Edmund Burke School is an independent college preparatory school in Washington, D.C. Located on Connecticut Avenue NW, two blocks from the Van Ness - UDC metro station, Burke enrolls approximately 315 students in Grades 6-12. Founded in 1968 by ...
(6-12) * Georgetown Day School (PK-12) * Gonzaga College High School (9-12) * Lab School of Washington (1-12) * Lowell School (PK-8) *
Maret School Maret School is a coeducational, K–12 independent school in Washington, D.C. It was founded by Marthe Maret in 1911 as a French primary school for girls and boys. History In the late 1800s and early 1900s, three French sisters, Mlles Marth ...
(K-12) *Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation's Capital (PK-8) *MYSA School (K-12) *
National Cathedral School National Cathedral School (NCS) is an independent Episcopal private day school for girls in grades 4–12 located on the grounds of the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., United States. Founded by philanthropist and suffragist Phoe ...
(4-12) * National Presbyterian School (PK-6) * Parkmont School (6-12) *The River School (PK-3) * St. Albans School (4-12) *
St. Anselm's Abbey School St. Anselm's Abbey School is an all-boys preparatory school for grades six through twelve in Washington D.C., United States. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington. The school sits on a 40-acre wooded campus in the Mic ...
(6-12) *
St. Patrick's Episcopal Day School St. Patrick's Episcopal Day School is an independent nursery, elementary, and middle school in Washington, D.C. It is affiliated with St. Patrick's Episcopal Church. History Founded in 1956 as a nursery school in a townhouse basement, the sch ...
(PK-8) *
Sheridan School Sheridan School is an independent, co-ed, progressive, K-8 school in Washington, D.C. The school enrolls approximately 225 students. The average tuition for the 2020-2021 school year is $39,095. The school awarded $1.6 million in financial aid ...
(K-8) * Sidwell Friends School (Middle/Upper School) (6-12) * Washington Jesuit Academy (4-8)


References


External links


Official WebsiteSchool Reviews & RatingsAssociation of Independent Maryland Schools – Statistics 2002-2011
on the official website of the
National Association of Independent Schools The National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) is a U.S.-based membership organization for private, nonprofit, K-12 schools. Founded in 1962, NAIS represents independent schools and associations in the United States, including day, boar ...
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