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Nolan Elementary School. Thirkell Elementary/Middle School. In 2013 the Mackinac Center 's Elementary and Middle School Report Card ranked this school as the top elementary in the State of Michigan [1] Trix Elementary School.
History. FIRST KNOWN AS CAPITAL HIGH SCHOOL (the 1800s) The first high school in the City of Detroit was established in a new building on Miami Street (Broadway) in 1859, on a site used by the Detroit Board of Education. In 1863, the high school was relocated to the second story of the Capitol Building, where a Union school was maintained.
Detroit Schools, 19th century. In the early years of the 19th century, private individuals interested in the education of children developed subscription schools. Typically, a group of parents hired a schoolmaster to teach a designated curriculum at an agreed-upon rate.
Over the last year or so, I've been trying to visit all of the vacant schools in Detroit. As discussed in other threads, demolition has started on 10 of these schools. Dexter Ferry Elementary - 1922-2005. Ferry elementary operated from 1922 until its closure in 2005. Only 263 students were left when it closed.
According to a Detroit Educational Bulletin from 1922, this school was named after Dr. Harry Burns Hutchins, sixth president of the University of Michigan, and was dedicated in October of that year, at the dawn of Frank Cody's administration as superintendent of the Detroit Public Schools.
The William T. Sampson School is one of the largest elementary schools ever built in Detroit. The Detroit Board of Education bought the land in 1911 for $7,000 (the equivalent of about $218,000, in 2023 dollars, when adjusted for inflation), and construction started the following year.
M. M. Rose School is a historic school building in Detroit. It was built in 1898 and succeeded an earlier one-room M. M. Rose School built in 1886. M. M. Rose (died January 21, 1892) taught at Bishop School and became the principal of the predominantly "Colored" Fourth Ward School that became known as Everett.
