List of closed public schools in Detroit
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This is a list of schools closed by the Detroit Public Schools Community District. There have been about 200 school closures since 2000. Some have been repurposed, while others were torn down, most remain vacant though, although the exact number is unclear.[1]
High schools
| School | Year closed |
|---|---|
| Chadsey High School | 2009[a] |
| Thomas M. Cooley High School | 2010[2] |
| Crockett High School | 2012[2][b] |
| Crosman Alternative High School | 2012[2] |
| Detroit City Alternative High School | 2012[2][c] |
| Jared W. Finney High School | 2011[2][d] |
| Charles Kettering High School | 2012[2] |
| Mackenzie High School | 2007[e] |
| Murray-Wright High School | 2007[f] |
| Northern High School | 2008[g] |
| Northeastern High School | 1982 |
| Redford High School | 2007 |
| Southwestern High School | 2012[2] |
| Trombly Alternative High School | 2002[2] |
Middle schools
| School | Year closed |
|---|---|
| Barbour Magnet Middle School | 2009[2] |
| Cadillac Middle School | 2007[2] |
| Elizabeth Cleveland Intermediate School | 2006 |
| Condon Junior High School | — |
| Farwell Middle School | 2012 |
| Foch Middle School | 2004 |
| Greusel Junior High School | — |
| Guest Middle School | — |
| Hally Magnet Middle School | 2012 |
| Hutchins Intermediate School | 2012 |
| Jackson Intermediate School | — |
| William S. Knudsen Junior High School | 2015 |
| Longfellow Middle School | 2008 |
| Lyster Junior High School | — |
| Mettetal Junior High School | — |
| Pelham Middle School | 2007 |
| Post Middle School | 2007 |
| Roosevelt Middle School | 2001 |
| Ruddiman Middle School | — |
| Taft Middle School | 2012 |
OW Holmes Elementary/Middle School
Elementary schools
- Jane Adams Elementary School
- Alger Elementary School
- Amos Elementary School
- Angell Elementary School - Closed in 2004.
- Arthur Elementary School - Closed in 2016.
- Edmund Atkison Elementary School - Closed in 2007.
- Barstow Elementary School - Lafayette Central Park.
- Barton Elementary School
- Beard Elementary School - Closed in 2014.
- Bell Elementary School
- Bellefontaine Elementary School
- Bellevue Elementary School - Closed in 2005.[2]
- Berry Elementary School - Closed in 2007.[2]
- Bethune Academy - Closed in 2010.[2]
- Biddle Elementary School - Closed in 2005.[2]
- Birdhurst Elementary School
- Birney Elementary School - Closed in 2009.[2]
- Boynton Elementary/Middle School - Closed in 2010
- Brady Elementary School - Closed in 2007.[2] Will reopen as a charter High School.
- Breitmeyer Elementary School - Closed in 2006.
- Burbank Elementary School - Closed in 2006.
- Burgess Elementary School
- Burt Elementary School - Closed in 2010.[2]
- Campau Elementary School
- Campbell Elementary School - Closed in 2012.
- Capron Elementary School
- Carlyle F. Stewart Elementary School - Closed in 2008, relocated to McCullough Elementary. Demolished in 2012.
- Cary Elementary School
- Chandler Elementary School - Closed in 2004.[h][2]
- Chaney Elementary School
- Clinton Elementary School - Closed in 2010.
- Clippert Elementary School
- Wilford L. Coffey Elementary/Middle School - Closed in 2009.[2][i]
- Columbian Elementary School
- Coolidge Elementary School - Closed in 2010.
- Jane Cooper Elementary School - Closed in 2009
- Courtis Elementary School
- Courville Elementary School - Closed in 2007.[2]
- Craft Elementary School
- Crary Elementary School - Closed in 2012.
- Custer Elementary School
- Henry Doty Elementary School
- Detroit Open School - Closed in 2010
- Dixon Elementary/Middle School - Closed in 2010
- Dow Elementary School - Closed in 2005
- Duffield Elementary/Middle School[j]
- Huber Dwyer Elementary School
- Edgewood Elementary School
- Ellis Elementary School[k]
- Estabrook Elementary School[l]
- Fairbanks Elementary School - Closed in 2008.
- Farrand Elementary School
- Ferry Elementary School- Closed in 2006.
- Fleming Elementary School- Closed in 2012.
- Flitzgerald Elementary School- Closed in 2012.
- George Ford Elementary School- Closed in 2005.
- Foster Elementary 2005[2][m]
- Fox Elementary 2010[2]
- Benjamin Franklin Elementary School – Closed in 2004.
- French Road Elementary School[n]
- Emma Fox Elementary School - Closed in 2006
- Garfield Elementary School
- George Elementary School
- Gershom Elementary School
- Gillies Elementary School
- Glazer Elementary School - Closed in 2016[o]
- Goldberg Elementary School
- Gompers Elementary 2011 [2]
- Goodale Elementary School[p]
- Grant Elementary/Middle School - Closed in 2007.[2] Will reopen as a STEM High School.
- Graying Elementary School - Closed in 2005.
- Greenfield Park Elementary School - Closed in 2007.[2]
- Guyton Elementary School 2009[2][q]
- Hamilton Elementary/Middle School - Closed in 2016.
- Hancock Elementary School - Closed in 2012.
- Hanneman Elementary School - Closed in 2007.[2][r]
- Hanstein Elementary School - Closed in 2010.[2]
- Harding Elementary School - Closed in 2012[s]
- Harris Elementary School - Closed in 2005.
- Herman Elementary School
- Higginbotham Elementary School
- Higgins Elementary School - Closed in 2007.[2]
- Hillger Elementary School
- Hosmer Elementary School - Closed in 2005.[2]
- Holcomb Elementary School - Closed in 2010.[2][t]
- Houghton Elementary School - Closed in 2009[2]
- Hubbard Elementary School
- Hubert Elementary School - Closed in 2005.[2]
- Hunter Elementary School
- Irving Elementary School
- Ives Elementary School
- Jamieson Elementary School - Closed in 2010.[2]
- Jeffries Elementary School
- Mae C. Jemison Academy
- Joffe Elementary School
- Jones Elementary/Middle School - Closed in 2005.
- Joyce Elementary School - Closed in 2009.[2]
- Barbara Jordan Elementary School
- Keating Elementary School
- Kennedy Elementary School
- Kosciusko Elementary School - Closed in 2007.[2][u]
- Krolick Elementary School
- Larned Elementary School - Closed in 2009,[2][v]
- Nellie Leland Elementary School - Closed in 1981
- Liebold-Leonard Elementary School
- Lillibridge Elementary School - Closed in 2007.
- Lincoln Elementary School
- Lingemann Elementary School
- Lodge Elementary School- Closed in 2009.[2]
- Logan Elementary School - Closed in 2013.
- Alexander Macomb Elementary School - Closed in 2009.[2][w]
- Joseph F. Majeske Elementary School
- Marcy Elementary School
- Marsh Elementary School - Closed in 2005.[2]
- Marshausen Elementary School
- Marxhausen Elementary School
- Mason Elementary School - Closed in 2012.[2]
- Maybee Elementary School
- McColl Elementary School - Closed in 2012.
- McFarlane Elementary School - Closed in 2010.[2] Will reopen as a STEM Middle School.
- McGraw Elementary School
- McGregor Ekementary School - Closed in 2007.[2]
- McKenny Elementary School - Closed in 2012.
- McKerrow Elementary School[x] Will reopen as a Charter Middle School.
- McKinley Elementary School
- McKinstry Elementary School[y]
- McLean Elementary School[z]
- McMillan Elementary School - Closed in 1960.
- Monnier Elementary School - Closed in 2007.[2]
- Monteith Elementary School - Closed in 1980.
- Moore Elementary School
- Morley Elementary School
- Newberry Elementary School - Closed in 2006[aa]
- Newton Elementary School
- Norvell Elementary School
- Oakman Elementary/Orthopedic School - Closed in 2014.
- The school, serving grades PreK-5,[3] was established and specially designed to accommodate children with physical disabilities, but it also enrolled children with no disabilities. DPS announced that the school was to close in 2013 in order to solve the district's budget gap. Parents protested unsuccessfully to have the decision reversed.[4] In 2013 it had about 300 students, with 40% of them having disabilities.[3]
- Owen Academy - Closed in 2012.
- Palmer Elementary School
- George E. Parker Elementary School - Closed in 2012.[2]
- Parkman Elementary School - Closed in 2005.[2]
- Pattengill Elementary School
- Pestalouzzi Elementary School
- Phoenix Elementary/Middle School - Closed in 2017.
- Pierce Elementary School
- Pingree Elementary School
- Pitcher Elementary School - Closed in 2007.
- Edgar Allan Poe Elementary School - Closed in 2016.
- Potter Elementary School
- Pretson Elementary School
- Ravenswood Elementary School
- Richard Elementary School- Closed in 2017.
- William Robinson Elementary/Middle School - Closed in 2012.
- M. M. Rose Elementary School - Closed in 2007[ab]
- Carl T. Rowan Community Elementary School
- Russell Elementary School
- Ruthruff Elementary School - Closed in 2006[ac]
- Sanders Elementary School - Closed in 2006
- Scripps Elementary School - Closed in 2004.
- Sherrard Elementary School - Closed in 2008.
- Sherrill Elementary School - Closed in 2005[2]
- Aisha Shule/web Dubois Prep Academy School - Closed in 2016.
- Sill Elementary School
- Smith Elementary School
- Stephens Elementary School - Closed in 2009 [2]
- Von Steuben Elementary School - Closed in 2005.
- Stratford Elementary School
- Szczenia Elementary School
- Tappan Elementary School
- Emma Thomas Elementary School[ad]
- Tilden Elementary School - Destroyed by fire.[5]
- Trowbridge Elementary School
- Van Dyke Elementary School[ae]
- Van Zile Elementary School - Closed in 2012.
- Vandenburg Elementary School[af]
- Vetal Elementary School - will reopen as a kindergarten program.
- Washington Elementary School - Closed in 2008[ag]
- Weatherby Elementary School- Closed in 2005.[2]
- Webster Elementary School - Closed in 2011.
- Wilkins Elementary School - Closed in 2013.
- Williams Elementary School
- Wilson Elementary School
- Wingert Elementary School
- Winship Elementary School[ah]
- Winterhalter Elementary School - Closed in 2010.
- Yost Elementary School - Closed in 2006.
- Gee Edmonson Academy - Closed in 2019.
See also
Notes
- ^ Demolished in March 2011
- ^ Students relocated to East English Village Preparatory Academy built on the former site of Finney High School.
- ^ This School was originally Longefellow Middle School.
- ^ Was an Elementary School when it opened in 1928, then became a High School in 1961. Demolished in 2011 to Make way for East English Village Preparatory Academy
- ^ Demolished in 2012.
- ^ Now serves as Douglass Academy for Young Men.
- ^ Became Detroit International Academy for Young Women in 2005.
- ^ Built in 1905, was named for former mayor Zachariah Chandler
- ^ Opened in 1925 and named for former Detroit City College dean Wilford Larn Coffey.
- ^ Renamed Bunche in 2013 after moving to this site.
- ^ Hope of Detroit Academy Middle/High School was built after this school was demolished.
- ^ Detroit Police Training Academy built on this site.
- ^ Various blogs report that the infamous Detroit Police Department Crime Lab operated inside the former Stephen Foster School (built in 1957) after it closed
- ^ Was demolished in 1949 to make way for Arthur L. Fletcher Playfield.
- ^ Became New Paradigm Glazer-Loving Academy.
- ^ Facility replaced by Edward 'Duke' Ellington Conservatory of Music & Art @ Beckham Academy in 2003.
- ^ This school was designed in the English Tudor style and the kindergarten room includes a fireplace.
- ^ Charles Hanneman School was built in 1916; the gym and cafeteria were located in the basement, which is odd for a modern school but typical for construction in that era.
- ^ School was replaced by Gompers Elementary/Middle School.
- ^ This single-story brick building constructed in 1925 has two interior courtyards.
- ^ Built in 1955 and named for Tadeusz Kościuszko, a Polish General who fought alongside George Washington.
- ^ Now used as House of Help Community School.
- ^ Named after Alexander Macomb, a Detroit native who served in the War of 1812 and later as Commanding General of the United States Army
- ^ In 2004, the school converted to John Deiter School, then renamed Detroit Transition Center West, Closed in 2011.
- ^ Became Clippert Multicultural Magnet Honors Academy.
- ^ Site taken over by Westside Christian Academy.
- ^ In 2014 Southwest Detroit Community School opened in a new building on this site. That school closed in 2019.
- ^ This is the oldest standing school in Detroit, dating back to 1897.[2]
- ^ In the 1980s and 1990s the school was known as the Ruthruff Adult Education. In the late 1990s or early 2000s, the school became the new home of the Malcolm X Academy program, an African-centric school.
- ^ Destroyed by fire twice in 2009 & 2012, Demolished in 2013.
- ^ Building Replaced by Butzel Junior High School which is now known as Garvey Academy.
- ^ Building converted to the Jalen Rose Leadership Academy, a charter school.
- ^ This was the Largest Elementary School in Detroit with the population of 2,240 students when it opened.
- ^ Building later became University Yes Academy
References
- ^ Clark, Anna (September 20, 2017). "Scores of Detroit schools are empty eyesores. Here's why it's so hard to bring them back to life". Detroit Journalism Cooperative.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax Beshouri, Paul (29 July 2013). "Bankrupt and Shrinking, Detroit Selling 79 Abandoned Schools". Curbed Detroit.
- ^ a b "Why is DPS Stonewalling?" (Archive). Metro Times. August 21, 2013. Retrieved on January 21, 2016.
- ^ Guyette, Curt. "After six years and four state-appointed managers, Detroit Public Schools’ debt has grown even deeper" (Archive). Metro Times. February 25, 2015. Retrieved on January 21, 2016.
- ^ Richard Bak (November 13, 2012). "The Tilden School Fire, a Forgotten Detroit Disaster". hourdetroit.com. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
External links
- The Decline of Detroit's Neighborhood Schools at MichiganRadio.org
- Photo gallery of Detroit's closed schools by Yvette van der Velde