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McFarlane School

McFarlane School closed in 2010 due to declining enrollment and was later abandoned.

Post Intermediate School

Post Intermediate School closed in 2005 due to low enrollment.

Van Zile School

Van Zile Elementary School closed in 2011 due to low enrollment.

Marshall Elementary School

Marshall Elementary is a closed school on the east side of Detroit.

Highland Park Ford School

Ford School in Highland Park closed in 2015 and was abandoned.

Cooley High School

Thomas Cooley High was a school on Detroit's northwest side that closed as part of district-wide downsizing in 2010.

Kettering High School

Charles Kettering High School was a school on Detroit's east side that closed in 2012 and has been abandoned since.

Cass Technical High School

Cass Technical High School is one of the most prestigious schools in Detroit. In 2005 the program moved out of their 85 year old building into a new one.

Highland Park High School

Highland Park High School and Junior College was the largest school in Highland Park, a suburb of Detroit. The school was used as a career academy until it closed and was abandoned in 2009.

Mackenzie High School

David Mackenzie High School was a public school in Detroit. It closed in 2007 due to declining enrollment and was demolished in 2012.

Redford High School

Redford High School was one of the largest abandoned schools in Detroit. It was demolished in 2012.

Southwestern High School

Southwestern High School was one of Detroit's first purpose-built high schools when it opened in 1921.

Sidney Miller Intermediate / High School

Sidney Miller School

Miller High School was a historic school that served Detroit's early black neighborhoods that closed in 2007. The school was bought by a charter company and reopened in 2013 after extensive renovations.

Oakman Orthopedic School

Oakman Orthopedic was a school for special needs children in Detroit that closed in 2013.

Detroit Urban Lutheran School

Detroit Urban Lutheran was a parochial school on the west side of Detroit that closed in 2010 and has been abandoned since.

Washington School

Washington Elementary was a school on the east side of Detroit that was later converted into a vocational school and used for adult education. It closed in 2010 and has been abandoned.

Lewis College of Business

The Lewis College of Business was the first business school in Detroit to accept African American students when it opened in 1939. After years of financial problems the school closed in the late 2000's.

McKerrow / Dieter School

Helen McKerrow School went through several different roles and names before it closed in 2011.

Brady School

George Brady School was the first of many schools designed in a way that allowed for easy expansion as the city great. It has been abandoned since 2007.

Cleveland Intermediate School

Cleveland Intermediate was a school on the northeast side of Detroit built in 1927. It closed in 2009 due to declining enrollment, but has reopened as a charter school.

Robeson / Malcolm X Academy

The Paul Robeson Academy was formerly St. Francis Home for Boys, an orphanage in Detroit. It burned in the summer of 2011, and was later abandoned.

Hutchins Intermediate School

Harry B. Hutchins Intermediate was a junior high schol built in 1921. It closed in 2009 due to declining enrollment.

St. David Catholic School

St. David Catholic School has been abandoned since 1989 and has fallen into severe disrepair.

St. Anthony / East Catholic High School

St. Anthony Catholic High School was the parish school of a German church on the east side of Detroit. It was later renamed East Catholic High School, and closed in 2005.

Servite Catholic / Powell Academy

Servite Catholic High School was part of St. John Berchmans Catholic Church, which closed in 1986. It later reopened as the Powell Academy charter school before closing again in 2010.

George Ferris School

George W. Ferris School was a school in the Detroit suburb of Highland Park. Built in sections from 1911 to 1925, the school closed sometime before 2001 due to budgetary reasons.

Highland Park Adult Education

Willard School in Highland Park was also known as the Highland Park Adult Education Center. It closed in the early 2000's, and was demolished in 2012.

St. Albertus Catholic School

St. Albertus Catholic School is the parish school of the church of the same name in Detroit.

Monteith / Trombly School

Monteith School was built in 1905 on the east side of Detroit. It closed in 2010 and has been abandoned since.

St. David High / Duke Ellington School

St. David was a Catholic High School on the east side of Detroit that later reopened as a public school.

Guest / Bethune School

Guest/ Bethune was a school on the west side of Detroit that closed in 2010 and has been abandoned.

Parker School

George Parker School was located on the west side of the city until it closed in 2012.

Ruthruff School

The former Ruthruff School was built in 1925 and hosted several programs until it closed in 2006.

Courville Elementary School

Courville Elementary was a school on the northeast side of the city. Built in 1921, the school closed in 2007 due to declining enrollment.

Coffey School

Coffey K-8 was a school on the northwest side of Detroit that closed 2011 and has been abandoned since.

Liberty School

Liberty Academy was a school Highland Park that dates back to 1917. It closed in 2006 due to low enrollment.

William T. Sampson Elementary

Sampson Elementary was a school on the west side of Detroit that opened in 1911 and closed in 2006.

Burroughs / Crockett School

Burroughs Intermediate was a school on the east side of Detroit, later renamed Crockett Technical High. It closed in 2012 and has since been abandoned.

Wilkins Elementary

Wilkins Elementary was a school on the east side of Detroit that closed in 2013 and has since been abandoned.

Macomb School

Macomb Elementary was a school in Detroit that closed in 2009 due to low enrollment. It has been abandoned since.

Thomas Houghten School

Houghten Elementary was a school on the west side of Detroit that closed in 2009 and was demolished in 2016.

Mason School

Mason School was built in 1931 on the east side of Detroit. After nearly closing in 2008, the school closed permanently in 2012 and has since been abandoned.

Gompers School

Samuel Gompers Elementary, built in 1954 and opened in 1955, served the Brightmoor neighborhood until 2010.

Jackson Intermediate School

Andrew Jackson / Ronald McNair School was a public school in Detroit. It closed in 2012 due to declining enrollment and was subsequently abandoned.

Hanneman Elementary School

Hanneman Elementary School was built in 1916 to serve the west side of Detroit. It closed in 2007 due to low enrollment and has been vacant since.

Sherrard Elementary School

Sherrard Elementary School was built in 1923, and closed in 2006.

Breitmeyer Intermediate School

Built in 1917, Breitmeyer Intermediate was named after a prominent florist whose son served as mayor of Detroit. It closed in 2006.

Carstens Elementary School

Hattie Carstens Elementary was a small but successful school located in a shrinking neighborhood on the east side of Detroit.

Brewer / Guardian Angels School

Guardian Angels Catholic School is a former school in the city of Detroit. After closing in 1986, it reopend as a public school, which closed and was abandoned in 2010.

St. Rita Catholic School

St. Rita was a Catholic School on the east side of Detroit, later converted into a public school. It closed in 2005 and was abandoned.

St. Agnes Catholic School

St. Agnes Catholic School is the parish school of the church of the same name. It closed in 2000.

Samuel Dixon School

Samuel Dixon Elementary was a public school in Detroit that closed and was abandoned in 2010, notable for its Art Deco and modern styling. It was demolished in 2017.

Dexter Ferry Elementary

Dexter Ferry Elementary School was built in 1922 and named for a prominent Detroit business man. The school closed in 2005, and was demolished in 2010.

Greenfield Park Elementary

Located in a mostly vacant neighborhood, Greenfield Park Elementary School closed in 2007 due to decreasing population.

Grant Elementary School

Ulysses Grant Elementary / Middle School was a public school in Detroit. It closed in 2007 due to declining enrollment and was subsequently abandoned.

Grayling Elementary School

Grayling Elementary School in Detroit was built in 1917. It closed in 2005, and was demolished in 2013.

Oliver Wendell Holmes School

Oliver Wendell Holmes school was a vacant school on the west side of Detroit that closed in 2012 and merged with another school.

George Hosmer School

Hosmer elementary was built in 1921 and expanded in 1924. The neighborhood around Hosmer is in decline, and the school closed in 2004.

Holcomb Elementary School

Samuel D. Holcomb School is a vacant school on the west side of Detroit that closed in 2010 due to declining enrollment.

Jane Cooper Elementary

Jane Cooper Elementary was built in 1920 as part of the Detroit Public Schools expansion plan. It closed in 2007 because the neighborhood around it had delcined severely.

Hubert Elementary School

Hubert Elementary School closed in 2005 due to declining enrollment.

Joy Middle School

Joy Middle School closed in 2006 due to declining enrollment.

Lynch Elementary School

John Lynch Elementary was built in 1914 as part of the district-wide construction program undertaken to meet the growing city's educational needs.

Weatherby Elementary School

Weatherby elementary was a small school on the west side of the city that was closed and abandoned in 2005.

Chandler Elementary School

Zachariah Chandler Elementary was a school on the east side of Detroit that closed in 2004 and was subsequently abandoned.

Johnson H. McKinney Day Treatment Center

A school on the east side of the city that closed in 2005.

Midland Elementary School

Midland Elementary was a school in Highland Park, a suburb of Detroit.

Kosciusko Elementary School

Kosciusko Elementary on the west side of Detroit is an abandoned school, closed in 2007.

John S. Newberry School

Closed in 2005 due to a sharp decline in enrollment. Badly damaged by fire, it was demolished in 2010.

M. M. Rose School

Rose school is now the oldest standing school in Detroit, dating back to 1897. It has been abandoned for many years.

St. Peter School

St. Peter School was a parochial school on the east side of Detroit that was abandoned and demolished in 2013.

Bus Graveyard

Detroit Public School buses that had outlived their usefulness were stored at this lot to be parted out and scrapped.

Wilbur Wright School

Wilbur Wright was an abandoned school near downtown Detroit. The building was demolished in 2010.

JTPA Nursing School

The JTPA nursing school was located in a former wing of the Herman Kiefer Tuberculosis Hospital.

Berry Elementary School

One of several schools built in 1961, Berry closed in 2007 as part of district-wide consolidation.

Fredrick Douglass Academy

The Fredrick Douglass Academy originally opened in 1962 as Knudsen Jr. High School. At some point it was renamed for civil rights activist Fredrick Douglass, and closed in 2007.

Emma Thomas School

Emma A. Thomas Elementary School was built in 1905 next to the Packard Motor Car plant.

Crosman Alternative School

Crosman Alternative School closed in 2007 due to declining enrollment.

Birney Elementary School

Alice Birney Elementary was a school in Detroit that closed in 2009 and was abandoned.

Rose School

Rose School in east Detroit is an abandoned school, closed in 2010.

Marsh Elementary School

Marsh Elementary is a small school on the west side of the city that closed in 2005.

Frederick W. Higgins Elementary School

Higgins Elementary School was on the wrong end of a tug-of-war with Detroit's scrappers. It closed at the end of the 2006 school year, and was demolished in 2014.

Longfellow School

Longfellow School was one of several Detroit school built in 1916 to meet the needs of the rapidly growing city. It closed in 2012 due to low enrollment and was demolished in 2016.

Woodward Elementary School

Woodward Elemetnary closed in 2005 due to declining enrollment. The school was demolished in 2010.

McMillan School

McMillan was one of the oldest schools in Detroit. It burned in the late 2000's, and was torn down in 2008.

Muhammad University Of Islam

A former bank building, most recently operated as either Muhammed Temple #1 or Muhammad University Of Islam, possibly at the same time.