See Detroit's champs and full district results
To determine Academic City Champions for the 2010-11 school year, Bridge Magazine collected and analyzed data for each campus in the Detroit Public Schools. All were judged by academic results relevant to their grade levels (testing at the fourth and eighth grades, ACT results and high school graduation rates for high-school grades). The results of the Detroit database can be found in a searchable format below the list of winners.
The champions
Renaissance High School (Graduation Rate, College Readiness)
Enrollment: 1,175
Percentage of free lunch: 40 percent
Key to victory: “We offer rigorous courses and a college-prep, liberal arts curriculum," said Principal Anita Williams.
Bates Academy (8th Grade Science, 8th Grade Math, 4th Grade Writing)
Enrollment: 857.
Percentage of free lunch: 49 percent
Key to success: “Our program attracts the best and brightest students in the Detroit metropolitan area, and they are given every opportunity to grow. We are developing a ‘stretch culture’ that remains focused upon continuous growth. This expectation not only applies to the students, but to the adult professional learning community, as well," said Principal Reginald Kirkland.
Davison Elementary-Middle School (4th Grade Reading, 4th Grade Math)
Enrollment: 700
Percentage of free lunch: 93 percent
Key to victory: “We have some wonderful programs here. We have an outstanding staff. You can have tons of outstanding programs in the school but if you do not have the right individuals to implement the programs you are not going to be successful. I take pride in making sure I have the highest quality staff available, a staff that is willing to go above and beyond," said Principal Dianne Holland.
Ludington Magnet Middle School (8th Grade Reading)
Enrollment: 537
Percentage of free lunch: 63 percent
Key to victory: "As a school of choice, Ludington is committed to elevating student achievement to recognized national standards. Our teachers come early and stay late to work with students and help them out," said Principal Alora Comer-Maxwell. "The testimony to that is (from) high school students who say they've received a great foundation to get to the next level."
How did other schools in Detroit do?
| DPS campus | Graduation rate (%) | ACT proficient (%) | 4th Math | 4th Reading | 4th Writing | 8th Science | 8th Reading | 8th Math |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detroit City School District | 1 | 75.4 | 63.6 | 20.5 | 51.7 | 61.7 | 48.8 | |
| Academy of Critical Thinkers at Cody | ||||||||
| Academy of The Americas | 76.5 | 70 | 20 | 68.8 | 70 | 43.8 | ||
| Ann Arbor Trail Magnet School | 93.3 | 93.3 | 51.1 | 85.7 | 74.3 | 64.3 | ||
| Bagley Elementary School | 96.2 | 67.3 | 9.6 | |||||
| Barton Elementary School | 73.3 | 60 | 27.1 | |||||
| Bates Academy | 95.3 | 82.6 | 86 | 99 | 85 | 98 | ||
| Beard Elementary School | ||||||||
| Beckham, William Academy | 63.6 | 51.5 | 8.1 | |||||
| Bennett Elementary School | 75.7 | 65.7 | 21.4 | |||||
| Blackwell Institute | 63.6 | 48.5 | 7.6 | 54.1 | 55.4 | 68.9 | ||
| Bow Elementary-Middle School | 82.7 | 77.8 | 35.8 | 27.8 | 48.1 | 37 | ||
| Brenda Scott Academy for Theatre Arts | 59.6 | 38.9 | 3.7 | 24.8 | 36.8 | 25.2 | ||
| Brewer Elementary-Middle School | 72.4 | 55.2 | 10.3 | 47.7 | 49.2 | 25.8 | ||
| Brown, Ronald Academy | 98.5 | 77.9 | 41.9 | |||||
| Bunche Elementary-Middle School | 61 | 70.7 | 26.8 | 52.7 | 71.4 | 43.6 | ||
| Burns Elementary-Middle School | 75 | 73.8 | 29.2 | 34.5 | 61.8 | 34.5 | ||
| Burton International School | 82.5 | 75.2 | 37.9 | 68.1 | 74.6 | 66.7 | ||
| Carleton Elementary School | 74.1 | 55.8 | 15.1 | |||||
| Carstens Elementary-Middle School | 72 | 60 | 16 | |||||
| Carver Elementary-Middle School | 46.3 | 43.9 | 4.9 | 79.3 | 60 | 58.6 | ||
| Cass Technical High School | 93.70% | 5 | ||||||
| Central Collegiate Academy | 63.07% | 0 | ||||||
| Chrysler Elementary School | 90.3 | 90.3 | 67.7 | |||||
| Clark, J.E. Preparatory Academy | 71.7 | 67.2 | 16.9 | 44.6 | 64 | 32.9 | ||
| Clemente, Roberto Academy | 89.2 | 76 | 26.9 | |||||
| Clippert Academy | 85.1 | 84.5 | 75.6 | |||||
| Cody Academy of Public Leadership | ||||||||
| Cody College Preparatory Upper School of Teaching | 66.45% | 0 | ||||||
| Communication and Media Arts HS | 93.13% | 1 | ||||||
| Cooke Elementary School | 79.6 | 63.3 | 8.2 | |||||
| Crockett High School | 93.67% | 0 | ||||||
| Davis Aerospace High School | 88.10% | 0 | ||||||
| Davison Elementary-Middle School | 98.9 | 94.3 | 36.8 | |||||
| Denby High School | 63.77% | 1 | ||||||
| Detroit Association Black Orgs (DABO) | 3.13% | 0 | ||||||
| Detroit Behavioral Institute | 0.00% | |||||||
| Detroit City High School | 48.35% | 0 | ||||||
| Detroit Day School For The Deaf | ||||||||
| Detroit Institute of Technology at Cody | ||||||||
| Detroit International Academy for Young Women | 66.67% | 0 | 70.6 | 47.1 | 0 | 59.5 | 81 | 59.5 |
| Detroit Lions Alternative Education | 4.8 | 20.9 | 4.4 | |||||
| Detroit School of Arts | 91.85% | 1 | ||||||
| Dixon Elementary School | 81.7 | 71.8 | 22.5 | 47.7 | 66.3 | 50.6 | ||
| Dossin Elementary-Middle School | 54.1 | 40.5 | 5.4 | 40 | 65 | 35 | ||
| Douglass Academy for Young Men | 70.97% | 0 | 45.8 | 48 | 28 | |||
| Durfee Elementary-Middle School | 64.2 | 53.6 | 7.4 | 45.3 | 62.7 | 55.4 | ||
| Edison Elementary School | 90.2 | 66.7 | 25.5 | |||||
| Edward "Duke" Ellington Elementary-Middle School | 75.6 | 50 | 14.3 | 59.5 | 75.9 | 43.6 | ||
| Emerson Elementary-Middle School | 79.4 | 76.9 | 12.5 | 56.4 | 56.1 | 51.2 | ||
| Field, Moses | ||||||||
| Finney High School | 58.39% | 2 | ||||||
| Fisher Magnet Lower Academy | 69.1 | 54.7 | 12.9 | |||||
| Fisher Magnet Upper Academy | 47.9 | 65.1 | 44.1 | |||||
| Ford High School | 65.47% | 1 | ||||||
| Foreign Language Immersion and Cultural Studies | 92.5 | 87.7 | 50.7 | 83.7 | 88.4 | 78.6 | ||
| Gardner Elementary School | 91.2 | 70.6 | 11.8 | |||||
| Garvey Academy | 74.6 | 70 | 21.7 | 66.3 | 72 | 73.5 | ||
| Golightly Education Center | 78.9 | 70.1 | 14.3 | 74.2 | 80.6 | 60.3 | ||
| Gompers Elementary-Middle School | 85.1 | 89.4 | 40.4 | |||||
| Greenfield Union Elementary-Middle School | 71.4 | 67.6 | 8.6 | 48.6 | 82.5 | 91.7 | ||
| Harms Elementary School | 92.4 | 84.6 | 35 | |||||
| Henderson Academy | 48.6 | 48.6 | 11.4 | 32.3 | 51.5 | 37 | ||
| Holmes, A.L. Elementary-Middle School | 35.1 | 23.7 | 0 | 40 | 40 | 45.7 | ||
| Holmes, O.W. Elementary-Middle School | 67.3 | 63 | 26.1 | 44.8 | 47.8 | 50.7 | ||
| Hutchinson Elementary-Middle School | 70 | 70.7 | 9.8 | 47.8 | 50 | 26.1 | ||
| Jemison, Mae C. | 67.3 | 67.3 | 6.1 | 41.5 | 71.7 | 45.3 | ||
| Jerry L White Center High School | ||||||||
| Keidan Special Education School | ||||||||
| Kettering High School | 46.41% | 0 | ||||||
| Kettering West Wing | 12.50% | |||||||
| King High School | 84.57% | 0 | ||||||
| King, John R. Academic and Performing Arts Academy | 64.6 | 59.3 | 11.3 | 39.6 | 45.4 | 38.9 | ||
| Langston Hughes Academy | 37.6 | 52.5 | 36.8 | |||||
| Law Elementary School | 55 | 59.8 | 16 | 34.6 | 69.1 | 38.2 | ||
| Logan Elementary School | 83.3 | 73.3 | 22.7 | |||||
| Ludington Magnet Middle School | 88.9 | 89.5 | 81.5 | |||||
| MacDowell Elementary School | 68.8 | 61.7 | 20.8 | |||||
| Mann Elementary School | 91.5 | 74.6 | 10 | |||||
| Mark Twain Elementary-Middle School | 43.8 | 37.5 | 12.5 | 53.3 | 40 | 34.5 | ||
| Marquette Elementary-Middle School | 57.6 | 42.9 | 10.6 | 39 | 53.3 | 30.7 | ||
| Marshall, Thurgood Elementary School | 91.7 | 64.5 | 18 | |||||
| Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary-Middle School | 63.5 | 39.7 | 6 | 25.6 | 41.7 | 33.3 | ||
| Mason Elementary School | 57.1 | 50.9 | 8.9 | |||||
| Maybury Elementary School | 74.5 | 70.2 | 29.8 | |||||
| Medicine and Community Health Academy at Cody | ||||||||
| Mumford High School | 76.07% | 0 | ||||||
| Murphy Elementary-Middle School | 43.5 | 43.5 | 3.2 | 30.1 | 56 | 32.4 | ||
| Neinas Elementary School | 72.5 | 41.2 | 13.7 | |||||
| Nichols Elementary-Middle School | 79.1 | 55.8 | 11.6 | 55.3 | 66 | 68.1 | ||
| Noble Elementary-Middle School | 58.5 | 54.8 | 9.8 | 25.9 | 39.6 | 35.2 | ||
| Nolan Elementary-Middle School | 72.2 | 50 | 5.6 | 42.4 | 59.3 | 38 | ||
| Northwestern High School | 55.60% | 0 | ||||||
| Oakman Elementary / Orthopedic School | 66.7 | 51.5 | 9.1 | |||||
| Osborn Academy of Mathematics | ||||||||
| Osborn College Preparatory Academy | ||||||||
| Osborn Evergreen Academy of Design and Alternative | ||||||||
| Osborn Upper School of Global Communications and C | 59.93% | 0 | ||||||
| Palmer Park Preparatory Academy | 55.3 | 57.4 | 21.3 | 36.9 | 48.8 | 32.5 | ||
| Parker Elementary-Middle School | 64.2 | 46.2 | 5.7 | 32.6 | 52.9 | 36.8 | ||
| Pasteur Elementary School | 95.6 | 82.6 | 60.9 | |||||
| Pershing High School | 70.68% | 0 | ||||||
| Phoenix Elementary-Middle School | 64.3 | 50 | 21.4 | 34.2 | 46.7 | 43.4 | ||
| Priest Elementary-Middle School | 84 | 59.2 | 16.3 | |||||
| Pulaski Elementary-Middle School | 64.6 | 59 | 6.6 | 69.1 | 77.9 | 72.1 | ||
| Renaissance High School | 96.96 % | 11 | ||||||
| Riverside Preparatory Middle College Academy | 21.05% | |||||||
| Robeson Academy, Malcolm X Academy | 81.4 | 76.7 | 9.3 | 57 | 70.9 | 44.7 | ||
| Rutherford Elementary School | 80.3 | 60.7 | 24.6 | |||||
| Sampson Academy | 73.8 | 64.3 | 14.3 | 30.2 | 46.5 | 81.8 | ||
| Schulze Elementary-Middle School | 74.2 | 66 | 12.8 | 55.8 | 79.1 | 32.6 | ||
| Southeastern High School | 73.39% | 0 | ||||||
| Southwestern High School | 41.30% | 0 | ||||||
| Spain Elementary-Middle School | 74 | 67.6 | 16.4 | 83.5 | 69.8 | 64 | ||
| Stewart Elementary-Middle School | 93 | 60.6 | 15.5 | 85.5 | 63.2 | 50 | ||
| Thirkell Elementary School | 98.5 | 92.9 | 64.7 | |||||
| Trix Elementary-Middle School | 58.8 | 47.1 | 0 | 35.6 | 53.3 | 45.7 | ||
| Turning Point Academy | 27.3 | |||||||
| Vernor Elementary School | 78.6 | 92.9 | 64.3 | |||||
| Wayne Elementary School | 82.3 | 42.6 | 8.1 | |||||
| West Side Academy Alt. Ed | 46.71% | 0 | ||||||
| Western International High School | 74.25% | 0 | ||||||
| Wilkins Elementary-Middle School | 74.4 | 53.7 | 14.6 | |||||
| Wright, Charles School | 94.5 | 72.4 | 21.4 | |||||
| Young, Coleman A. Elementary | 64.7 | 61.4 | 10.4 |
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