Calvert School

Calvert School is a kindergarten through 8th grade co-educational private school with a day school operation in Baltimore, Maryland and an associated homeschooling division that administers a curriculum shipped to families around the United States and the world. Developed in 1906, the home school curriculum grew by being advertised in the National Geographic magazine as a kindergarten program for those wishing to offer a better education to their children. In 1905, Virgil Hillyer, a Harvard-trained scholar who had served as Head Master of the Calvert Day School since shortly after its founding in 1897, convinced a Baltimore bookstore owner to sell the school’s kindergarten curriculum to parents who, unable to send their children to...