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The Baltimore City College is a public college-preparatory high school in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. The City College curriculum includes the International Baccalaureate Programme and emphasizes study in the classics and liberal arts. Baltimore City College is a magnet school, and admission to City College is competitive. Applicants from Baltimore and the surrounding area are evaluated using a combination of grades and standardized test scores. Established in 1839 as an all-male institution, City College is the third oldest public high school in the United States, predated by the English High School of Boston (1829) and the Central High School of Philadelphia (1836). The school was located in three different buildings in downtown Baltimore before relocating in 1928 to its current campus at 33rd Street and The Alameda. Following an extensive renovation of the school's main building in 1978, the school became coeducational. City College is a National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence (1999–2000), one of only two public secondary schools in Baltimore City to receive the award. In the May 2007 Newsweek report on the top 1200 schools in the US, City College ranked 258. (more...)