Baltimore City’s student body elected its next representative on the school board as city government comes closer to filling the board’s final vacancy.

Zayra Chicas Guzman, a junior at Digital Harbor High School, was elected the next student commissioner. The other two candidates were Taylor Fraling-Taylor of Western High School and incumbent student commissioner Dylan Rooks of Baltimore City College.

Almost 4,000 students, over 10% of eligible sixth graders through 12th graders, voted in the election, according to the results posted by the Associated Student Congress of Baltimore City.

The Board of Commissioners still has another seat to fill after the appointment of Larry Simmons Jr. to the school board in April.

The Mayor’s Office of Children and Family Success held two public interviews with six candidates and a panel of community representatives in May.

Four candidates will interview with Mayor Brandon Scott in the final phase of the interview process, according to the Baltimore City Public Schools’ school board newsletter.

One of the candidates is former Baltimore City special education teacher Salimah Jasani, who unsuccessfully ran for the one of the city’s school board’s first elected seats in 2022.

Those seats were won by current commissioners Ashley Esposito and Kwamé Kenyatta-Bey.

Former Baltimore City assistant superintendent Deborah Wortham, former Notre Dame of Maryland University and Baltimore City Community College faculty member Heather Lamb and educational consultant Amber Woodruff also advanced to the next round of interviews.

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