Detroit Public Schools

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Detroit Public Schools
"Building Brighter Futures" [1]
Type	Public
Budget	US$ 1.2 billion (2007) [2]
Students	94,054 (2008-2009)[3]
Staff	15,535 (2007) [2]
Number of Schools	194 (2008) [4]
Teachers Unions	Detroit Federation of Teachers [5]
Location	Detroit, MI USA
Website	http://www.detroitk12.org/

Detroit Public Schools (DPS) is a school district that covers all of the city of Detroit, Michigan, United States. The student population of the Detroit Public Schools is 94,054 (2008-2009).^[3] The district has 194 schools (2008)^[4] The district has its headquarters in the Fisher Building of the New Center area of Detroit.^[6]

Contents 1 History 2 Financial Difficulties 3 Employee Relations 4 Student Achievement 5 Charter School Competition 6 Elected Officials 6.1 Board of education 7 School uniforms 8 Miscellany 9 Schools 9.1 Kindergarten and 7-12 schools 9.2 7-12 schools 9.3 High schools 9.3.1 Zoned high schools 9.3.2 Optional high schools 9.4 PreK-8 schools 9.4.1 Zoned PreK-8 schools 9.4.2 Alternative PreK-8 schools 9.5 K-8 schools 9.5.1 Zoned K-8 schools 9.5.2 Alternative K-8 schools 9.6 5-8 schools 9.7 6-8 schools 9.8 PK-6 schools 9.9 K-6 schools 9.10 PreK-5 schools 10 Defunct schools 11 References 12 External links

History

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Detroit Public Schools has grown in area with the city. Some of the schools in the district began as part of other school districts, such as various Greenfield Township and Springwells Township districts before these districts were made part of the Detroit Public Schools as the areas they covered were annexed to the city of Detroit.^{[citation needed]}

In 1917, the board membership was changed from ward-based to at-large elections.^{[citation needed]}

In 1999, the Michigan Legislature removed the locally elected board of education amid allegations of mismanagement and replaced it with a reform board appointed by the mayor and governor. The elected board of education returned following a city referendum in 2005. The first election of the new eleven member board of education, with four chosen at-large and seven by district, occurred on November 8, 2005.^{[citation needed]}

Before the district occupied the Fisher Building, its headquarters were in the Macabees Building in Midtown Detroit.^[7] The district paid the owner of the Fisher Building $24.1 million in 2002 so the district could occupy five floors in the building. This was more than the owner of the Fisher Building paid to buy the building one year earlier.^[8] The district's emergency financial manager, Robert Bobb, said in 2009 that he was investigating how the school board agreed to the lease in the Fisher Building.^[9] Reginald Turner, who served on Detroit School Board from 2000 to 2003, said that he was told that it would be less expensive to occupy the Fisher Building than it would to remodel the Maccabees Building.^[10]

Financial Difficulties

On 8 December, 2008, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Mike Flanagan said that the district's inability to manage its finances was crippling the students' learning environment, and declared a financial emergency.^[11] Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm appointed Robert Bobb as the fiscal manager of Detroit Public Schools in 2009 to manage the school districts finances. His contract dictates a one year tenure. The school district began selling 27 previously closed school buildings. On 3 March 2009, Bobb initially estimated that DPS's current year deficit would be no less than $150M, requested early payments from the state to meet payroll, and indicated that more additional outside auditors will be required to properly assess the district's financial situation.^[12][13] To begin to erase this deficit, the district put twenty nine vacant buildings up for sale in early 2009.^[14]

Detroit Public Schools is also burdened with a shrinking population of students. Between the years of 2002 and 2008, the number of enrolled students dropped from 157,003 to 94,054, a 64,929 person decrease.^[15] This caused the district to lose its place as a first-class district for state funding, and opened the door for more charter schools to open up in the city.^[16] Detroit Public Schools had a goal of closing 95 schools by 2009.^{[citation needed]} The plan to secure and close 67 schools remains incomplete after $3 million spent on the task, with nearly half of the schools not having been cleaned out, and a football field of materials being warehoused.^{[citation needed]}

In March 2009, Robert Bobb declared that the school district had 150 million dollar budget deficit, only including debts that he was aware of. Twenty million dollars of that money is owed to the district's pension system. ^[17] The DPS school board complained in that same year that the then deficit of $65 million for 2007-2008 school year was caused by accounting irregularities, including fringe benefits and paying teachers off of the books.^[18] Much of the deficit was discovered by outside auditors invited by former district Superintendent Connie Calloway in 2008. They reported that the district's true financial prediciment was masked by years of shifting funding and resources, hidden deficits, poor management, and lack of long term planning. They also found 611 teachers on payroll but not in the budget.^[19]

Employee Relations

On Wednesday, March 22, 2006 some teachers staged a "blackboard flu"^[20]

In the 2006 contract negotiations, the district sought $88 million in reductions, but the Detroit Federation of Teachers (representing 7,000 teachers and 2,500 other employees) and other unions fought further pay cuts, and the district threatened to lay off 2,000 union employees in response. On Tuesday August 22, thousands of DPS teachers protested further pay cuts, and demanded a pay increase. A district spokesman said that pay cuts for teachers was a necessary requirement for balancing the school's budget. The teachers agreed to go on strike, closing school for three days and shortening the first day of school.

The Detroit Federation of Teachers requested a 15.6% pay increase for the highest income teachers, pointing out that they're making less than their counterparts in the suburbs. The median total compensation, including all benefits, for the Detroit Public Schools is $70,046, while the median teacher pay in the tri-county area is $76,100. Teachers concessions were still below the state mandated deficit reduction plan, and a prolonged strike was averted primarily because both sides recognized the threat of more children leaving the DPS for charter schools. In an appeal to teachers who are considering a wildcat strike, Detroit Superintendent William F. Coleman III argued that a strike would encourage more children to leave the district for suburban schools of choice and charter schools, exasperating problems and forcing more layoffs and program cuts. Some blame the state takeover for the strike.^[21]

The teachers went on strike.^[22] County Circuit Court Judge Susan Borman ruled on September 8, 2006 that the teachers must return to work the following week.

Preliminary district enrollment figures showed that the district was down 25,000 students,^[23] or more than twice as many as the 10,000 student loss originally budgeted. Actual loss was 12,350 students.

Relations between the DFT and the DPS continue to be strained. In Early November, 2006, Union President Jenna Garrison was escorted out DPS administrative offices in the Fisher Building after refusing to leave while inquiring about $780,000 in union dues she said the district owed. DPS officials responded that DFT owes them about $1 million in fines. The previous day DPS notified DFT that it intended to pursue contempt of court charges against the union relating to the 2006 teacher's strike.

On November 9, 2006, DPS laid off 907 lunch aides and 713 teachers. Aides are union members of the Detroit Federation of Paraprofessionals, and typically make near minimum wages. A recent minimum wage hike was a factor in the layoffs.^[24]

DPS pays 14.55% of each employee's salary to the Office of Retirement Services to cover the costs of participation in the Michigan Public School Employees' Retirement System.^[25]

In 1999 Detroit teachers staged a wildcat strike, using the slogan "Books, Supplies, Lower Class Size!"

Student Achievement

An editorial in the Detroit Free Press, 2 March 2009, attacked "The culture of low educational expectations and excuse-making [which] runs too deep with DPS". ^[26]

On 14 February 2009, the Detroit Free Press reported that United States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan "loses sleep over 'the poor quality of education' Detroit children are receiving.". He also said "There's been lots of addled issues of politics that I think have really done our children of Detroit a great disservice, so that's a city that I have a huge focus on." However, a spokesman later stated that Duncan had no specific plans for Detroit. ^[13]

A February 2009 Brookings Institution report found that Detroit Public Schools was the worst overall major urban district, and the only one whose performance fell between 2000-2007. ^[27][28]

A June 2007 study by Education Week found that Detroit had the lowest graduation rate of any large school district in the 2003-2004 school year; 24.9%. In a previous report by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Detroit Public Schools also ranked last among 50 large school districts for the percentage of students who receive a high school diploma on time with a rate of 21.7%.^[29] DPS claims that the methods employed are flawed, and that the correct figure is 67.2%. In both cases, DPS officials indicated that the report did not take into account the large numbers of students that it lost to suburban and charter schools.^{[citation needed]} The Director of the research center countered that DPS's numbers lacked credibility, saying that "[People in Detroit] know it doesn't reflect reality in city schools."^{[citation needed]} A Free Press editorial condemned the controversy, said that DPS is failing most of its students, called on DPS to learn from charter schools, and called on the Michigan State Board of Education to develop better methods of tracking students.^{[citation needed]} A June 11 editorial from Interim Superintendent Lamont Satchel asserted that DPS serves its students well, and that University Prep "has the luxury of selective admissions".^{[citation needed]} Michigan law forbids charter schools from selectively admitting students.

A July 2008 editorial in "Northwestern Digital" stated that graduation rates may be "overestimated by as much as 18 to 20 percent under the Michigan formula" and called on Governor Granholm to implement a compact she signed with the National Governors Association which would change the way that Michigan counts graduation rates to match other states.^[30]

DPS academic performance is improving. For 2002-2006, fourth grader reading proficiency rose from 43% to 55% on Michigan standardized tests. Eighth Grade reading improved from 34% to 42%.^{[citation needed]} Results for individual schools are available online. ^[31] Glazer Elementary School, serving many poor students, beat the DPS and statewide averages for MEAP scores, and was honored with a $100,000 grant by the Skilman foundation.^{[citation needed]} However, 59 schools still do not meet adequate yearly progress requirements. ^[32] Most schools that fail to meet those requirements fail on both language and mathematics requirements.

Active Schools failing to meet adequate yearling progress for 2006 and 2007 school year: ^[33]

School Name	Grades Tested	Ed Yes! Grade
Barbara Jordan Elementary	3 - 8	D-Alert
Barbour Magnet Middle School (Site closed in 2009)[34]	6 - 8	C
Boynton Elementary-Middle School	3 - 8	D-Alert
Burt Elementary School	3 - 7	D-Alert
Carver Elementary School	3 - 8	C
Cleveland Middle School (Site closed in 2009)[34]	6 - 8	C
Coffey Elementary/Middle School	3 - 8	D-Alert
Columbus Middle School	6 - 8	D-Alert
Courtis Elementary School	3 - 8	D-Alert
Crary Elementary School	3 - 6	C
Davison Elementary School	3 - 6	C
Detroit Lions Alternative	6 - 8	D-Alert
Dixon Elementary School	3 - 8	D-Alert
Drew Middle School	6 - 8	D-Alert
Erma Henderson Upper School	5 - 8	C
Farwell Middle School	6 - 8	D-Alert
Greenfield Union Elementary School	3 - 8	C
Hamilton Elementary School	3 - 6	C
Harding Elementary School	3 - 8	C
Holmes, A.L. Elementary School	3 - 8	D-Alert
Houghten Elementary School(Site closed in 2009)[34]	3 - 7	C
Lessenger Elementary-Middle School	6 - 8	C
Marquette Elementary School	3 - 8	D-Alert
Marshall, Thurgood Elementary School	3 - 7	B
McNair Middle School	6 - 8	C
Munger Elementary School	6 - 8	C
Murphy Elementary-Middle School	3 - 8	D-Alert
Noble Elementary School	3 - 8	D-Alert
Nolan Elementary School	6 - 8	C
Parker Elementary School	3 - 7	C
Phoenix Elementary	6 - 8	D-Alert
Priest Elementary	3 - 6	C
Pulaski Elementary School	3 - 8	C
Richard Elementary School	3 - 8	C
Robinson Middle School	6 - 8	C
Schulze Elementary School	3 - 7	C
Scott, Brenda Middle School	6 - 8	C
Stephens Elementary School	3 - 8	C
Trix Elementary School	3 - 8	D-Alert
Vetal Elementary School	3 - 8	C
Westside Multicultural	3 - 8	C
White Elementary School	3 - 7	D-Alert

Inactive schools that failed to meet AYP for the 2006-2007 school year were Cooper Elementary School, Courville Elementary School, Greenfield Park Elementary School, Hanneman Elementary School, MacCulloch Elementary School, McMichael Middle School, Miller Middle School, Monnier Elementary School, Ruddiman Middle School, Sherrard Elementary School, and Winship Elementary School. ^[33]

Academic performance under the Superintendent and new school board has been increasing. On January 27, 2007, the local Detroit Newspapers have reported that Detroit Public Schools' students showed performance gains in reading and math at each tested grade this year on the Michigan Educational Assessment Program.^{[citation needed]}

A team of DPS students from Western International and Murray-Wright High School took second place out of 552 teams from 25 countries in a robotics competition in Atlanta,Georgia. DPS students, most notably Bates Academy students, also did well at the 42nd annual Academic Olympics in Eatonton, Georgia, winning many honors. The Duffield elementary and middle school chess teams both finished first in the 2007 statewide competition, and did well in the national competition.^{[citation needed]} At a previous Annual National Academic Games Olympics, DPS students won 25 individual and 20 team first place awards.^[35][36]

103 of Detroit Public School's 225 schools did not meet the goals in the Federal No Child Left Behind Act, up from 63 last year.^{[citation needed]} Barbour Magnet Middle School met the federal standards for the first time in years. It would have been closed in June had it not met standards.^{[citation needed]}

70,000 students are eligible for free tutoring under the No Child Left Behind Act, but only 10% of them participate. Many observers blame the Detroit Public Schools for failing to adequately publicize the availability of tutoring by the November 19 deadline, and not using radio adds or other media, for financial reasons.^{[citation needed]} Students in schools not meeting Adequate Yearly Progress ^[37] as measured by the Michigan Department of Education are eligible,^[38] but must sign up by November 19.

As part of a nationwide study, Johns Hopkins University labeled the following DPS schools as "dropout factories" because less than 60% of incoming freshmen made it to their senior year^[39]:

School Name
Central
Chadsey
Communication & Media Arts
Cooley
Davis Aerospace Technical High School
Denby
Finney
Ford
Kettering
Mackenzie
Murray-Wright
Northern
Northwestern
Osborn
Pershing
Redford
Southeastern
Southwestern
Western International
Detroit School of Industrial Arts
Weston Technical Academy

In December, 2007, the Detroit Free Press reported that the Department of Education for the State of Michigan warned the Detroit Public Schools that it would be forced to fine DPS for failing to provide private tutoring for children in failing schools, and for failing to allow those students to transfer to a different school.^[40]

In a December 24, 2007 Detroit News editorial, Reverend Edgar Vann called on DPS to stop school gang violence as a necessary prerequisite to improving student performance, saying "we have violence that causes some schools at times to be virtually out of control. This is not conducive for learning." ^[41]

The Detroit Free Press summarized its editorial position on Detroit Public Schools saying "We have embraced charter schools that may force improvement in public schools, particularly in urban areas such as Detroit, where public education is a disaster. However, we favor strict monitoring of charter schools and limits on the number of them. We oppose vouchers as impractical in many urban areas and a more direct assault on the financing that’s needed to shore up the public systems." ^[42]

On March 29, 2006, students at Mackenzie High in Detroit staged a walkout to protest the lack of textbooks and toilet paper. 32 were arrested, with 8 charged for disorderly conduct, and 1 for inciting to riot. Students complained that they had only one textbook per 3 students, an administrator had an expensive plasma television, amid allegations of a missing $3,000, and leaking roofs which damaged 45 new computers in storage. ^[43][44] The Detroit police department also enforced the parental responsibility act, fining parents up to $500 for the behavior of their children. The ACLU is considering challenging the parental responsibility ordinance. ^[45]

During school closing protests on May 1, 2007, Detroit police maced young children and dragged bound students during arrests of 5 students and 7 juveniles. ^[46] 12 students are suing DPS with the assistance of BAMN. ^[47]

Charter School Competition

Detroit also has a public charter school system with about 54,000 Detroit students. When charter school and Detroit Public Schools enrollments are combined, the total number of children in public schools in Detroit has increased. If 2007 growth trends continue, fewer of Detroit's public school students will be attending charter schools than the Detroit Public Schools during the 2009-2010 school year. This shift is sometimes called "black flight".^[48]

Officials at the Detroit Public Schools and Detroit Federation of Teachers oppose the expansion of charter schools. A previous plan for 15 new charter high schools was scuttled. Philanthropist Bob Thompson is backing a new University Preparatory Academy High School.

University Preparatory Academy are elementary, middle, and high schools which have shown test scores above averages for Detroit Public Schools.^[49] Their goal is to graduate 90% of incoming freshmen and have 90% of those graduates go on to college. They intend to meet that goal for the first time this year. They pay for ACT college admissions tests, there are no bells between classes. They lease a building from philanthropist Bob Thompson for $1.00 per year on condition of meeting student performance goals. However, these scores are below high performing DHS schools with selective enrollment such as Bates Academy, Burton International and Renaissance High School.^[50]

Follow up studies of the University Prep Academy class of 2007 shows that at least 90% went on to college, 83% of those who attended a four year university re-enrolled for a second year, and 57% of those who attended a two year college re-enrolled for a second year, beating national re-enrollment averages of 73% and 45% respectively.^[51]

There have been significant calls for the Detroit Public Schools to cooperate more with charters, including renting abandoned schools to charters, and to learn from successful charter schools. DPS has indicated that it is not "interested in creating schools that are not part of the traditional public school system".

If DPS loses its "first class status" by falling under 100,000 students, more charter schools will be allowed to open in Detroit. The Detroit News argued against laws to change this, saying "the district is still betraying its students. Detroit's school system needs the threat of losing its first-class status and its consequences because nothing else has worked. Not a state takeover. Not the steady loss of students. Not a much-heralded reform school board. Not a long parade of bright superintendents.Only now do the administrative bureaucracy and teacher union seem open to change because their fates -- and their livelihoods -- are at stake." ^[52].

In May 2008, the DPS board renewed contracts with six charter schools for two years. DPS leases some closed school buildings to charter school operators. ^[53]

In a September 2008 editorial, Free Press columnist Stephen Henderson echoed this call, saying "The truth is that the system is imploding, and every family with the ability to roll with something other than DPS appears to be grabbing that choice. ... It's time to make Detroit wide open to the innovation and creativity that people outside DPS seem much better able to provide for city kids. ... It's no longer about robbing a district of per-pupil resources from the state to fund its resurgence, but about making its inevitable dissolution—propelled by the rapid exodus of students—as fast as possible, to spare the kids stuck inside from the Third World education they're enduring."^[54]

Elected Officials

In March 2007, the DPS board removed Superintendent William Coleman, replaced him with Dr. Connie Calloway as its new superintendent on a $280,000 yearly salary, and made Lamont Satchel as Interim Superintendent. Coleman was still paid for the remainder of his contract.^[55]

Dr. Connie Calloway was removed after 18 months after accusations by the school board that she was behaving unprofessionally and exercising poor judgment. She is fighting that decision.^[56]

Board of education

Board Member	District
Carla Scott (President)	District 1
Otis Mathis III	District 2
Annie Carter	District 3
Tyrone Winfrey	District 4
Joice Hayes-Giles	District 5
Terry Catchings	District 6
Marvis Cofield	District 7
David Murray	At large
Ida Short	At large
Marie Thornton	At large
Margaret Betts	At large

School uniforms

Detroit Public Schools created a district wide uniform dress code effective on May 11, 2006 for all students in grades Kindergarten through 12.^[57] This includes mandatory identification badges. Parents may opt their children out of the dress code for medical, religious, or financial reasons.^[58] Several schools, including Bates Academy already had uniform dress codes prior to the start of the district-wide policy.^[59]

Miscellany

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Auto supplier ArvinMeritor and Southwestern High School have a strong cooperative relationship, in which students and former students of the high school largely make up the staff of the auto supplier, and the auto supplier makes generous donations to the high school.^{[citation needed]}

On July 31, 2006, the Detroit Public Schools announced a $500,000 media campaign with the theme "Come Home to DPS" focusing on unique and high achieving students and programs in the district. The purpose of the program is to attract families who are increasingly sending their children to charter schools. Referring to the loss of students, Lekan Oguntoyinbo, district spokesman, was quoted as saying, "If we don't do anything, pretty soon we're not going to have a school district." Some observers indicated that the program may already be too late, as many parents decide where to send their children in the spring, rather than late summer.^{[citation needed]}

On August 31, 2007, Detroit Public Schools announced that they have opened a Detroit Police mini-station in Henry Ford High School. Detroit Free Press article indicated that police mini-stations are planned for Cody, Cooley, Northwestern and Central high schools. ^[60] DPS maintains its own sworn and armed police officers. ^[61]

In December 2007, a bus driver taking special needs children to school allegedly solicited an undercover police officer posing as a prostitute while driving his school bus. ^[62]

The Kiwanis Club, founded in Detroit 93 years ago, continues to hold an annual party for disabled children of the Detroit Public Schools for the last 20 years. ^[63]

Schools

Kindergarten and 7-12 schools

• Boykin Continuing Education Center (optional)

7-12 schools

(Zoned)

• Cleveland Middle School

(Alternative)

• Douglass Academy
• Ferguson Academy for Young Women

High schools

Zoned high schools

• Central High School
• Frank Cody High School
  • Cody 9th Grade Academy
• Cooley High School
• Denby Technical & Preparatory High School
• Finney High School
• Henry Ford High School
• Kettering High School
• Mumford High School
• Northwestern High School
• Osborn High School
• Pershing High School
• Southeastern High School
• Southwestern High School
• Western International High School

Optional high schools

• Barsamian Preparatory Center
• Cass Technical High School
• Communication & Media Arts High School
• Crockett High School
• Crosman Alternative High School
• Davis Aerospace High School
• Detroit City High School
• Detroit High School for Technology
• Detroit School of Arts
• Detroit International Academy for Young Women
• Millennium School
• Renaissance High School
• Trombly Alternative High School
• West Side Academy Alternative Education

PreK-8 schools

Zoned PreK-8 schools

• Bethune Academy
• Blackwell Institute
• Boynton Elementary/Middle School
• Burns Elementary School
• Burton International School
• Butzel Elementary/Middle School
• D. Bethune Duffield Elementary School (Detroit)
  • Constructed in 1922, this is a pre-kindergarten through 8th grade facility educating around 410 students. The classically styled, three-story elementary school draws students from the neighborhood bordered by southern St. Aubin Street; then eastward to include Chene, Joseph Campau and McDougall Street.^[64]
• Durfee Elementary School
• Fisher Magnet
• Fitzgerald Elementary School
• Golightly Education Center
• Greenfield Union Elementary School
• A. L. Holmes Elementary School
• Jemison School of Choice
• Barbara Jordan Elementary School
• Law Elementary School
• MacCulloch Elementary School a.k.a. Stewart Elementary School
• Marquette Elementary School
• Noble Elementary School
• Robeson Academy
• Sherrill Elementary School
• Mark Twain Elementary School
• Westside Multicultural Academy

Alternative PreK-8 schools

• Academy of The Americas

K-8 schools

Zoned K-8 schools

• Ann Arbor Trail Magnet Middle School
• Carver Elementary School
• Coffey Elementary/Middle School
• Courtis Elementary School
• Dixon Elementary School
• Drew Middle School
• Lessenger Elementary-Middle School
• Malcolm X Academy
• Frank Murphy Elementary/Middle School
• Nichols Elementary School
• Nolan Elementary School
• Owen Academy
• Phoenix Elementary School
• Pulaski Elementary School
• Richard Elementary School
• Sampson Academy
• Spain Elementary School
• Trix Elementary School
• Vetal Elementary School

Alternative K-8 schools

• Bates Academy
• Edward (Duke) Ellington Conservatory of Music/Art
• Foreign Language Immersion
• Hancock Preparatory Center
• Langston Hughes Academy
• Hutchins Elementary School

5-8 schools

(Zoned)

• Farwell Middle School
• Erma Henderson Upper School

(Alternative)

• Clippert Academy
• Ludington Magnet Middle School

6-8 schools

(Zoned)

• Barbour Magnet Middle School
• Cerveny Middle School
• Columbus Middle School
• Earhart Middle School
• McNair Middle School
• Robinson Middle School
• Brenda Scott Middle School

(Alternative)

• Hally Magnet Middle School
• Heilmann Park Middle School

PK-6 schools

(Zoned)

• #1 Jonh R King
• Ronald Brown Academy
• Burt Elementary School
• Dossin Elementary School
• Guyton Elementary School
• Jamieson Elementary School

• MacDowell Elementary School
• Thurgood Marshall Elementary School
• McKenny Elementary School
• Pasteur Elementary School
• Schulze Elementary School
• Stephens Elementary School

K-6 schools

(Zoned)

• Birney Elementary School
• Cooke Elementary School
• McColl Elementary School
• Munger Elementary School
• Vernor Elementary School

PreK-5 schools

(Zoned)

• Emerson Elementary School
• Gompers Elementary School
• Harding Elementary School
• Harms Elementary School

Defunct schools

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High schools

• Benedictine High School - Now home to the Old Redford Academy Preparatory High School.
• Cass Technical High School (Old)
• Chadsey High School
• Detroit City High School (Old)
• Douglass High School
• Mackenzie High School (Closed in 2007^[65])
• Murray-Wright High School^[66]
• Northeastern High School - This school has been razed, and the property is now up for sale.
• Northern High School^[66] - Closed at the end of the 2007-2008 school year. The school is now home to the Detroit International Academy.^{[citation needed]}
• Redford High School^[66] (Closed in 2007^[65])
• Wilbur Wright High School

Alternative schools

• Bates Academy
• Burton International Academy
• Crosman Alternative School
• Golightly Career and Technical Center^[66]
• Healy International Academy
• Krolik Alternative Education^[66]
• MAAT Imhotep Technical Academy
• Vincent Academy^[66]

PreK-8 schools

• Detroit Open School (Site closed in 2009)^[34]

K-8 schools

• Garvey Academy (Site closed in 2009)^[34]
• Winterhalter Elementary School (Site closed in 2009)^[34]

Elementary schools

• Angell Primary School
• Angelou Elementary School
• Arthur Elementary/Middle School
• Atkinson Elementary School
• Berry Elementary School
• Blackwell Primary School
• Brady Elementary School
• Chandler Elementary School
• Chaney Elementary School - Now the Ferguson Academy for Young Women.
• Coolidge Elementary School (Site closed in 2009)^[34]
• Jane Cooper Elementary School (closed 2007) - The building was left unsecured; after months passed several scrappers took metal out of equipment and structures; James Griffioen of Vice Magazine stated that this made the school "looking as though it hadn’t been occupied for decades."^[67]
• Courville Elementary School
• Doty Elementary School - Now the Boykin Continuing Education Center.
• Fairbanks Elementary School
• Fine Arts East Elementary/Middle School (a.k.a. New Middle School)
• Fisher Elementary School - This school was razed for new housing development.
• Ford Elementary School - This school has been razed.
• Grant Elementary/Middle School
• Grayling Elementary School
• Greenfield Park Elementary School
• Goodale Elementary School - This school has been razed.
• Hanneman Elementary School
• Healy Elementary School
• Higginbotham Elementary School - Now home to Aisha Shule/WED Dubois Preparatory Academy.
• Higgins Elementary School (Closed in 2007^[65])
• Hubert Elementary School
• Hunter Elementary School - This school has been razed, and the property is now up for sale.
• Jefferies Elementary School - This school has been razed, and the property is now up for sale.
• Jemison Elementary School
• Kosciusko Elementary School
• MacCulloch Elementary School
• McGregor Elementary School
• Monnier Elementary School
• Newberry Elementary School
• Owen Elementary School
• Pitcher Elementary School
• Roosevelt Elementary School (Closed 1990) ^[68]
• Sampson Elementary School
• Sanders Elementary School
• Scripps Elementary School
• Sherrard Elementary School
• Von Steuben Elementary School
• Washington Elementary School - Now housing the Washington Careers Center and the eastern location for the Detroit Transition Center.
• Winship Elementary School
• Woodward Elementary School
• Wilbur Wright Elementary School^[69]

Middle schools

• Arthur Elementary/Middle School
• Beaubien Middle School
• Burroughs Middle School - Converted to Crockett High School.
• Cadillac Middle School
• Douglass Middle School
• Fine Arts East Elementary/Middle School (a.k.a. New Middle School)
• Grant Elementary/Middle School
• Hutchins Middle School - Now the Crosman Alternative High School.
• Joy Middle School
• Longfellow Middle School - Now houses the Detroit City High School.
• McMichael Middle School
• Miller Middle School
• Ruddiman Middle School - Now the location for the 9th grade campus of Cody High School.

References

External links

• Detroit Public Schools
• The Theory and Practice of Constructing Hope: The Detroit Teachers' Wildcat Strike 1999 by Rich Gibson
• Detroit Teachers Strike Again by Rich Gibson
• Newspaper Articles about DPS and Detroit
• Images of the abandoned Detroit Public Schools Book Depository

v • d • e Detroit Public Schools (DPS) Zoned high schools Central • Cody • Cooley • Denby • Finney • Ford • Kettering • King • Mumford • Northwestern • Osborn • Pershing • Southeastern • Southwestern • Western International Optional high schools Barsamian Preparatory Center • Cass Technical • Communication & Media Arts • Crosman • Davis Aerospace • Detroit City • Detroit Technology High School • Detroit School of Arts • Ferguson Academy for Young Women • Millennium School • Renaissance • Trombly Alternative • West Side Academy Alternative Education Former high schools Chadsey • Mackenzie • Murray-Wright • Northern • Redford