TOWSON, MD—Baltimore County Public Schools students earned 1,141 awards from the 2025 Maryland Regional Scholastic Art & Writing Awards recognition program, a significant increase from previous years. This represents 45% more awards than the 787 earned in 2024 and more than three times the 347 awards earned in 2023. BCPS students won 32% of all art awards and 42% of all writing awards in Scholastic’s Maryland region.

The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, recognized as the nation’s longest-running and most prestigious arts program for students in Grades 7-12, honor visual arts and writing achievements. Students from 14 BCPS high schools and one middle school received awards at the Gold Key, Silver Key, and Honorable Mention levels.

“We congratulate the honored students for their outstanding artistic achievements, and we recognize our dedicated visual arts and English language arts educators who instruct, challenge, and inspire these students,” said BCPS Superintendent Dr. Myriam Rogers. “We invest in arts education because it allows our students to express their creativity and because it offers so many academic and social-emotional benefits to them.”

BCPS students earned a total of 828 visual arts awards and 313 writing awards. Carver Center for Arts and Technology students earned seventy-five percent of the awards: 270 Gold Keys, 319 Silver Keys, and 273 Honorable Mentions.

One Carver Center student, Hannah Kellogg, Grade 10, received a special honor as an American Voices nominee. Her flash fiction piece, “The Sound of Rotting,” was recognized as a top-five regional Scholastic writing submission and will be considered for a National Medal.

A complete list of BCPS awardees is available online (PDF). Gold Key recipients will now be considered for national-level Scholastic Awards, which will be announced in March.

This article was written with the assistance of AI and reviewed by a human editor.