Owings Mills is fine? I mean I guess it is, compared to say the city, sure. If your from out of state, it may not be "fine" for you to have your teenage boy live there on his own.[/quote]

LOL at Owings Mills. I suppose that is the zip code but really? What is dicey - the horse farm? The T. Towe Price offices that abut part of the campus? It's 800 acres of grass before you get anywhere near Reisterstown Road. As for boarding, McDonogh only has 5 day boarding. There are local boarders that simply go home on the weekends. out of town students need to find a host family to take them on weekends. BL has 7 day boarding. BTW, BL's campus is not small and it's right on the north City/County line so its perfectly (literally) central.