Mural symbolizes school's rebirth

The new principal at Holabird Elementary, a squat Southeast Baltimore building wedged between a graveyard and the projects, called it the “forgotten school.”

But Lindsay Krey, who took the helm of the O?Donnell Heights school this year to refocus it as a college preparatory, wanted to show students and parents that a turnaround was blossoming behind the clouded windows and prisonlike doors.