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The school is located in two buildings, around 100 years old, in proximity to Highland Park and Hamtramck. Dixon Educational Learning Academy Earheart Elementary/Middle School
It is the oldest independent school in Michigan. Founded in 1851 in Detroit, the Academy moved to its 28-acre (110,000 m 2 ) campus in Bloomfield Township in 1958. It is a Catholic, college-preparatory school for young women from infancy through Grade 12 and for boys from infancy through Grade 8 of many cultures and faiths.
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.
By 2005 suburban flight contributed to the decline of Catholic schools in the Detroit area. There were no Catholic schools left in Hamtramck by that year, and in the Detroit city limits there were 12. [3] By 2017 there were four Catholic elementary schools in the city of Detroit. [2] There are 103 Detroit-area high schools which have closed as ...
Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD) is a school district that serves Detroit, Michigan, and high school students in Highland Park, Michigan. The district, which replaced the original Detroit Public Schools ( DPS ) in 2016, provides services to approximately 50,000 students, [ 6 ] making it the largest school district in the state.
School fundraising or school fund raising is the practice of raising money to support educational enrichment programs by schools or school groups such as parent-teacher organizations, parent-teacher associations and booster clubs. One of the most prevalent practices is product fundraising.
As of 2006 students frequently dropped out of the school. In August 2003, the 9th grade class had 700 students. By December 2006 that class had 200 students. [6] According to former DPS superintendent Dr. Connie Calloway, who was interviewed in the 2011 Dan Rather report "A National Disgrace," a typical class's student body declined from about 800-900 9th graders to 545 in the 10th grade, 345 ...
The Education Achievement Authority (EAA or Authority) was the governing body of the Education Achievement System (EAS or System), a Michigan statewide school system for failing schools. It was discontinued in 2017 and the schools were returned to the Detroit Public Schools.