History
Gilman was founded as The Country School for Boys by Baltimore resident Anne Galbraith Carey, with assistance from Daniel Coit Gilman (the first president of Johns Hopkins University). The school opened its doors on September 30, 1897 in the Homewood Mansion (now known as the Homewood Museum) on the Johns Hopkins campus. In 1910, the Country School moved to its current 68-acre (275,000 m²) campus in Roland Park and changed its name to The Gilman Country School for Boys. In 1951, "Country" was dropped.
Gilman has two sister schools: Roland Park Country School, across Roland Avenue from Gilman to the west, and Bryn Mawr School, across Northern Parkway from Gilman to the north. All three schools coordinate some Upper School (grades 9–12) classes to the extent that some classes have students from all three schools.
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