Renaissance High School
| Renaissance High School | |
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| Address | |
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6565 W. Outer Drive Detroit, Michigan United States |
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| Information | |
| Type | Examination High School of Choice/College Preparatory |
| Motto | "A School for the Mind, A Mind for the Future" |
| Established | 1978 |
| School district | Detroit Public Schools |
| Principal | Anita Williams |
| Faculty | 45+ |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 1,133 |
| Mascot | Phoenix |
| Website | detroitk12.org/schools/renaissance |
Renaissance High School is a public high school located within the city of Detroit, Michigan. Renaissance is one of four magnet high schools in the Detroit Public Schools district; (the others being Cass Technical High School, Detroit School of Arts, and Communication & Media Arts High School).
Founded in 1978 on the former site of Catholic Central High School, Renaissance's first senior class graduated in 1981. A new building for the school was dedicated in 2005 at the site of the former Sinai Hospital.
Admission is selective. Originally, 8th and 9th grade students from public and private schools took a proficiency exam before admission. A combination of the student's grades in middle school or junior high and the exam score determined school admission. This policy was changed in 1994 to allow transfer students to attend the school, although they must fulfill the same graduation requirements as other students. In 2006, more than 75% of the student's body was African-American. Renaissance opened in 1978 with first-year ("freshman") and second-year ("sophomore") students. Its first four-year graduating class received their diplomas in June 1982.
In 2005, the school moved into a $200+ million campus complete with a language and computer labs, and a football field. Features include solar collectors, a rainwater harvesting system, and innovative cooling systems. The school moved from the building that is now F.L.I.C.S., or Foreign Language Immersion Cultural Studies.
Detroit-based GunnLevine Architects (GLA) was selected by Detroit Public Schools as their Master Architect for the $128 million Sinai Educational Campus. GLA was selected due to their extensive healthcare background with notable educational expertise to design an innovative educational campus to meet Silver LEED certification requirements.
After a thorough feasibility study of the former Sinai Hospital, the principal concluded that programming would be compromised if renovations were to be implemented. The prior facility configuration and structural systems presented a liability in its net-to-gross ratio for its re-use as an educational campus. GLA offered alternative programming and suggested creative options that increased programming without affecting budgets. GLA also consulted community groups in the process.
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