IND, Oldest Girls’ Prep School in Maryland, Closing Its Doors for Good

By Prince George's County Ex-Pat
Tue, May 5, 2020 5:25 p.m.

"Baltimore’s oldest girls Catholic school, Institute of Notre Dame, announces closing."

PGCE-P: "It's the blecks," said the South African.

And to think that the state of Maryland was founded by Roman Catholics.


The Institute of Notre Dame, which has educated girls in Baltimore since 1847, announced May 5 that it was closing its doors for good.

The oldest all-girls preparatory school in Maryland, the grades 9-12 institution was founded and sponsored by the School Sisters of Notre Dame, and served as the order’s flagship school in the United States.

School Sister of Notre Dame Charmaine Krohe, provincial leader, and School Sister of Notre Dame Patricia Murphy, chairwoman of the IND Board of Trustees and a member of the class of 1962, cited declining enrollment, the economy and an aging school building in announcing that the school would close, effective June 30, in a letter addressed to members of the IND community.

The Archdiocese of Baltimore does not have authority over the governance of the school, and was not involved in the decision to close the school, according to a spokesman for the archdiocese.