What kills me is, we've had funding issues for decades now, with teachers feeling compelled to buy supplies for students out of their own pockets, but this school's district just left hundreds of perfectly good chairs, tons of furniture, and a giant hardwood gym floor to rot rather than selling them off. Bureaucracy at its finest.

So crazy how there are huge vacant buildings like this sitting around that could be utilized as youth centers, or housing for homeless veterans, etc

Some more details regarding the future of this property: As Dan stated the building itself will be demolished because the city sold off the property to nearby Morgan State University who will demolish the building. MSU plans to build a satellite campus on the property. Some of the public art in this building is going to be saved by Morgan State University and from my understanding is going to be given back to the city. This school is huge, it had a large swimming pool as well that went into disrepair well before the school closure. It also had a large, beautiful auditorium, two gymnasiums and a state championship winning basketball team.

This was a pleasant surprise, Dan. These exploration vids of yours are some of my favorites. Like a lot of folks in Baltimore I went to Saturday school here for a while back in the late 1980s.

Love the video, Dan. My mother & aunt were part of the first class to graduate from this school when the school first opened back in the 1970s.

The #1 channel for those seeking to be depressed and relaxed. Glad to see more exploration vids!

Wow!!! This was the high school I went to. I was in the final graduating class of Lake Clifton/Eastern in 2003.

Hello Dan. Great to see you doing explores again. I've been watching your videos since 2015,, I think. This reminds me of those early days 👍 You stood out from the rest 💙

Nice. I needed a good dose of Dan Bell Urbex.

You have no idea how excited I get when I see a new Dan Bell abandoned video or documentary was uploaded 🙌🏼

Perfect soothing voice! Miss this, but glad you're back with some more. Many thanks and look forward you your upcoming work 👍💪

Man I missed these kind of explore videos, it's been the 'Sitting in car live chatting' for so long now.

I unfortunately know nothing about cinematography or filmmaking but I appreciate seeing everything through this cameraman's eye. He has such a talent ❤

Thank you Dan and Dillon! I absolutely love you 2! Keep up your amazing work!!

This is Christmas in April!!!! Greatest KZfaq gift for 2023!!! Thanks Dan!

Love it, Dan! Quiet time is just what I need tonight

I was missing you like mad and this came up on the top of my KZfaq page. Thank you for this great mooch around the old school very interesting. Amazing it was the largest high school once. Alot of players produced there. X

I remember hearing that in the past, there was a lake here at one point ;but it was removed. This school and the park nearby were built on top of the drained lake. I heard that over the years this building was sinking due to issues with moisture underneath. My mom went to this school for 2 years before transferring

I still miss hi scool . It was the best 7 years of my life . I was sad the day I gradjewated .

You 2 are so awesome and always give us the viewers the background story which is awesome too

Im glad u stood in the doorway at 1:24 long enough to catch a shot of those colored staind glass windows. I don't know why but for some reason, the Shot at 1:24 along with the Glare from the Stained Glass Windows...

I am sooo happy that you were able to get to film my old high school

YOOOOOOO!!!!!! I used to attend that school when it was two full high schools Heritage High School #425 the one I attended and Doris M. Johnson #426. As well as a small middle school called "REACH! Partnership School" actually reopened in 2004 with those schools, I believe and I attended it from 2008-2011. "Lake Clifton" as a school that used the entire building closed in 2003. AMA!

Where I live, it's common to salvage building materials from wrecking ball destined buildings for resale. Gym and bowling alley floors are prized for the hard , durable wood. I hope this place is gutted before demolition. To not repurpose buildings is such a shame and waste.

I think I went to Saturday school here in 2002 so I could pass algebra II. Edited to add: 6:48 yep! That strange mural and red tiled wall are the part of the school we went to. Yep! I remember this. Wow, it's been twenty years.

Love it!

I'm confused about something, So they have security day and night but they haven't sealed up the entry points of the building to prevent anyone from going in?

It's only Dan and Dillon, the cop is saying scratching his head!😂

Happy to see you again, Dan. Miss your Saturday night jaunts. Especially driving through Leakin Park, those scare me like nothing else.

Nice Dan!!! Wild how the imagery stirs up memories.

Oh thank GOD, I was having serious DAN BELL withdrawals!!😅

Glad that your doing exploration videos again Dan, love your channel!

Dan....I Missed that Velvety Voice. Looking Forward to Much More.

Great. I have missed your urban explorations.

Your videos are so relaxing. ☺️

Those cops seemed completely not bothered when they saw you and camera and were like oh just a weird video guy lol.

It's so baffling to me that cops waste resources on coming to a place like this when it's a dime a dozen in Baltimore. Or that there's security. Anyway, thanks for the video Dan!

Urban explore with a quiet time tone to it = heaven.

Just got back from exploring that building. I must say it was a treat. Most places I’ve explored around here in MD have been totally wrecked or just purely taken over by nature. Interestingly there are a few wings of the building that are virtually un touched, only levels of interaction are clearly contractors and or BCPS personnel clearing out rooms of trash and other items for future de construction… obvious scrappers have been all over the building. The structure has suffered from what appears to be two separate fires. Also PAY ATTENTION when near the auditorium, there is strong evidence of current squatter activity. Still plenty of stuff to see in there, I suppose it’ll slowly be gutted before demo but honestly I believe that building had tons of potential left in it. It is pretty amazing how some areas of the school are pretty far beaten up while others are virtually un touched ..access to the building is easy, of course do the right thing, don’t tear stuff up. And also as mentioned above beware of potential squatters Also there is a wing to the east of the building look on the map and it’s dead north of the old tennis courts BEWARE there is some kind of natural gas leak, strong Odor of gas on the 1st/2nd floors.

Damn you didn't get to see the pool or the auditorium or the Library. 😥

Something sad about seeing a school this way, but your quiet time narration makes it reflective, calming. Amazing work S.T.A.L.K.E.R. !

Miss the creepy ghosts hunts and urbex you do. Thanks for this

yay!!! thanks for another great exploration video. Been watching for years. Your channel never disappoints.

Wow man those shots of stained glass are really cool, you can actually see the light from the camera refract onto the walls and stuff.

Love it. Much like the style of Keough.

That was quite a high school. Thanks for showing what you could.

aBaNdOnEd FoR dEcAdEs!!!111!! Closed down the year I graduated from high school. That hit hard. 👴

you only covered 10 percent of this place? wow, im so glad you got the gym on camera. you made the absolute best of your short time there

This was my high school. Class of 2002. So sad.

So good to see you guys!❤

Thanks DB. Another example of the wastefulness & destructiveness of humankind. This one worse too because it was taxpayers money that built this. Nobody repurposes these buildings anymore, just smash ‘em up and tear ‘em down. Given the dismal state of education, it should still be in use as a school!

oh wow, what a pleasant surprise ! me and my partner really wanted to check this place out in november, and drove hours to do so. sadly for us, every entrance was completely sealed and bolted up at the time. crazy the door was just wide open back there ! we had to have tried every door and window on the place lol. just the humbling, and unfortunate truth sometimes when it comes to having urbex as a hobby; sometimes places just aren’t accessible, and others, they are. still a bit sad about it, but i’m glad you got in !

Love the chill vibe! Great video ❤️.

"The property belongs to us," is such a cop thing to say.

glad to see content like this back again! i was literally just in baltimore, crazy.

Always a good day when a new Dan Bell is out!

I really enjoy these. Stay safe!

That was great! Would love to see the police interaction! I did love how it ended on “we’re just taking pictures” though!

I took home economics in Jr. High, 7th grade, not in high school itself, and that would have been 2003-2004 when I was in 7th grade the same year this school closed. I am in Spokane,Washington where in the main district here when I went only did 7th and 8th Jr. High, but about 5 years ago or something they changed it so 6th graders go to it too now which is the way it was when my mom went, hers was the last class that went into Jr. High for 6th then for like 40 some odd years including when I went it was K-6 Elementary school and 7-8 Junior High, now its back to 6-8 Junior High. I remember there were 2 teachers who taught it at that school and I was lucky and got the woman who didn't make you carry a flour baby around to demonstrate what being a parent was like but the other teacher did and I felt so lucky and hated the idea of having to do that. And I remember in high school seeing kids carrying them around at certain points too, so I would imagine Home EC was also a 9th grade thing you could take at high school if it wasn't something you got credit for in 7th or 8th. I was in high school from 2005-2009. Anyways you mentioning the schools history of producing NBA level talent is sort of sad in reflection when you go into the gym and see what the court looks like and all the colors and the name of the team and you think thats where those people honed those skills and practiced them and discovered their talents. One of the buildings at my high school was torn down shortly after I graduated that I had classes in, but they expanded and remodeled the main building and made a larger parking lot where the other building was, and I hated math and thats what most of the classes I took were when I went into the outlying building. So I don't miss it so much, lol. It was a cool tan brick building that had been another small school at one point before the high school was built next to it, then when the high school was built the other school built a new one at another location and the high school started using it. I know one of the things in it was driving class when my brother who is 7 years older went there, but when I went driving class wasn't around anymore the state got rid of driving class in public schools between when he went and I went.

This place closed a year after I graduated High School myself. My school however is quite still in use down here in FL. Thanks for taking us along Dan!

I love the calm ASMR like narration you add on, it makes your videos extra relaxing.

Great to see you back at it.

Its mind blowing how a school district can just close a perfectly good school, and even if it does need some repairs due to age or whatever, just fix it! They just sell it and these schools just rot away. Plus, if they do close a school, why not help out the taxpayers by selling off the equipment and furniture inside if they are not going to use it anymore. Its just crazy.

Guess Dan didn't notice the way to new security camera. At 7:27 at the right you can see a dome type camera that definitely didn't exist in 2003. Still interesting to see what you could see till they showed up. I know I been in plenty of abandoned schools here as a teen. In the 80's there where to many school buildings here as all the boomers where gone from school and the second wave made bythe boomers.

Im glad they let you be on your way and you didn't get in trouble, Dan, love the video!

Dan- so glad you’re back doing the work u do best! Keep it up - more dead motels please!

I used to play AAU basketball there. Sad to see it just left there like that.

What a amazing place to explore! Thanks for sharing! Just subscribed to your channel. Keep up the great work! 🤘😎

Thank YOU .. Dan Bell

Amazing as always!

Feels like old times, Dan!

Sad, whatever classroom dscussion left on the chalkboard will be gone forever on demo. Good you caught it on camera.

Would be awesome if you could return here and do more in depth video of this huge place before it is torn down!!

This is incredible! What a great find! I love it xxxxx🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

As always great video. 👍

That place is a gold mine. Those stainless cafeteria/restaurant tables and carts are not cheap! So much to salvage, what a waste.

Oooh I didn’t expect the quiet time narration. A pleasant surprise!

Thanks guys! Lovely vid

love it at always! So stoked and can’t wait for the new ADR also

Great video. Maybe it's just me, but even though this school was closed down 20 years ago, it still seems quite "modern". Just appears to be a terrible shame and quite a waste to meet the wrecking ball....

How does a school district have the money to just abandon an entire school? this seems like a misappropriation of funds to me. Tax dollars wasted. A shame.

Just love that coloured textured glass in the cafeteria 👍

I was wanting the video to be a few minutes longer to hear the outcome of the police situation.

Wow I drive past their multiple times a week and had no idea it was closed down.

Fabulous to see a video from you. Such a shame security turned up but at least we got to see something there 😊

So glad you’re doing urbex again, great video! Another night time one would be brilliant, just stay safe!

Wow awesome can't wait Dan !!

Hi Dan thanks for sharing, your a beautiful man. Happy Easter 🐰🐣 take care and stay safe. Hi there Dillon 👋

I think, next time, parking off the property is in order, as not to attract attention. Great video, Dan.

"during this escape" had me dying.

I love this stuff classic DB in all its glory ❤

That school was still open a couple of years ago it was called Reach. Unless they only used have of the school. They moved to the school right across Clifton park

Urbex ASMR! Thanks for the tingles Dan 🥰

This is the Dan I love!!!!!!

Great video. I'm glad you didn't run into real trouble at the end. Or so it seems anyway..

Quiet Time-esque. Love it. That school must have had quite the basketball program. Balls of steel there at the end, Dan. 👍🏻

Yay Dan! Yay exploration!

For being abandoned so long it's really not in bad shape, they don't build schools like this anymore..

I am proud to say that my alma mater Morgan State University has purchased the area/school and will have it demolished in order to build a research park and satellite campus. Continue to excel MSU!

My old school, hate to see it like this. C/O 88. Last time I was in the gym was 2012 watching my nephew hoop. I walked those halls with Thomas Jordan