Editing Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (section)

=== Modern campus (1960s&ndash;present) ===
<div class="center">{{Panorama|image=File:Baltimore Polytechnic HS.jpg| height=230px|caption={{center|Baltimore Polytechnic Institute's 1967  campus at northwest corner of West Cold Spring Lane and Falls Road ([[Maryland Route 25]]), alongside the [[Jones Falls]] stream to the west and elevated [[Jones Falls Expressway]] ([[Interstate 83]])<br/>''left'' – Burkert Hall (engineering building) obscured by trees, ''center'' – is the single story King Memorial Hall with outside decorative stone facade and school nameplate, to the ''right'' – is  Dehuff Hall (academic building) – all renamed in 1983}}}}</div>{{clear}}
In September 1967, after a multi-year planning and construction project, then-fifth principal Claude Burkert (1958–1969) oversaw the relocation of his school after 54 years at North Avenue and Calvert Street to its current location at 1400 West Cold Spring Lane, a fifty-three-acre tract of land bordering the 
[[Jones Falls]] stream to the west (and adjacent elevated [[Jones Falls Expressway]] ([[Interstate 83]]) and with Falls Road ([[Maryland Route 25]]} and the heights of the [[Roland Park, Baltimore, Maryland|Roland Park]] residential planned community from the 1890s to the east along Cold Spring Lane, and to the south is the [[Hampden, Baltimore|Hampden]] and [[Woodberry, Baltimore|Woodberry]] neighborhoods. Further to the north along Falls Road is the [[Village of Cross Keys]] shopping mall and planned residential community also developed during the 1960s by the noted [[James Rouse]].

At the time of the 1965–1967  building of the "New Poly-Western", it was considered one of the largest and most expensive school construction projects in the nation up to that time. A century before, this site along the Jones Falls was occupied by earthworks fortifications for the [[Union Army]], then militarily occupying Southern-sympathizing Baltimore City during the [[American Civil War]].

Also occupying this site on its east side facing Falls Road is the new [[Western High School (Maryland)|Western High School]], an all-girls school founded in 1844.

Notable buildings on the B.P.I. campus include Dehuff Hall, also known formerly as the Academic Hall building, named for the longtime fourth principal where students attend normal classes, and Burkert Hall, also previously called the Engineering Hall building, remembering the fifth principal, where students attend classes in the [[Willard Hackerman]] Engineering Program. (Hackerman, a noted Poly alumnus and local / regional engineering / construction firm founder). Both Western High girls and Poly students make use of the auditorium/cafeteria complex in-between the two high schools, and likewise share the swimming pool and sports fields. Although the two schools share these facilities, their respective academic programs and classrooms are completely separate from one another.

In 1974 after some controversy and a local court case, the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute officially became [[Mixed-sex education#USA|coeducational]] when it began admitting female students for the first time in almost 90 years. The first female to enroll and successfully graduate from the "A" Course was an African-American named Cindy White (1974–1978).

Coincidentally five years later, rival Baltimore City College, also with an all-boys student body since its founding in 1839, also admitted girls, becoming co-educational in 1979 after undergoing a major two-years long $10&nbsp;million dollars renovation / reconstruction project and academic reorganization and revitalization program at its landmark "Castle on the Hill" 1922–1928 edifice on "Collegian Hill" at 33rd Street and The Alameda.

In the late 1980s the title "principal" of the Polytechnic Institute was changed to "director." After the retirement of Director John Dohler in 1990, Barbara Stricklin became the first woman to head the [[Magnet school|"magnet"]] high school, as she accepted the title of Interim Director.

[[File:Balto Poly Auditorium.jpg|thumb|left|Auditorium built 1966–1967, shared by Polytechnic Institute and Western High School students]]
During Director Ian Cohen's tenure (1994–2003), Poly's curriculum was again expanded when it began offering [[Advanced placement]] (A.P.) classes.  During the 2001–2002 school year, Poly was recognized by the [[Maryland State Department of Education]] when it was named a "Blue Ribbon School of Excellence."<ref name="bpi.edu">{{cite web|url=http://www.bpi.edu/|title=Baltimore Polytechnic Institute|website=www.bpi.edu|access-date=January 6, 2015|archive-date=September 13, 2002|archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20020913102619/http://www.bpi.edu/|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2011, Poly was ranked 1552 nationally and 44 in Maryland as a "Silver Medal School" by ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' magazine.<ref name=USNWR>{{cite news|url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/maryland/districts/baltimore-city-schools/baltimore-polytechnic-institute-9009|title=Baltimore Polytechnic Institute in Baltimore, MD|newspaper=U.S. News and Report|access-date=July 19, 2012}}</ref>

In 2004, Dr. Barney Wilson, a 1976 Poly graduate, became Baltimore Polytechnic Institute's first African-American director. Following his six years tenure in August 2010, assistant principal Matthew Woolston, was appointed interim director. Later on during that academic year, Jacqueline Williams was appointed as interim director for the subsequent 2011–2012 school year. By the end of that term – and after a parallel two-year, nationwide search – Williams became the first female director of the Polytechnic Institute. Williams had worked her way through the Poly ranks from student (Class of 1981), to faculty as teacher, then department head, to assistant principal, and to dean of students, before appointment to her position as B.P.I. director.<ref name="bpidirector1" /> Recently during the 2022–2023 school year, it was announced that Ms. Williams would be retiring after 12 years as Poly's academic head. In June 2023, another Poly alum, Mark Sawyer was named director, a position he holds to this day.