Not an actual development, but something tangentially related to the redevelopment of the city: DPS enrollment seems to have staunched the bleeding. Overall enrollment is only down 1.8% over the previous year, which is the smallest decline in years, and even more interesting, high school enrollment has surged 14%. No one seems to have anticipated this, particularly with the creation of the EA district a few years back that was yet another direct competitor to DPS.
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DPS enrollment surges after years of decline
By Jennifer Chambers | The Detroit News
November 1, 2013
Detroit— It’s a problem officials at Detroit Public Schools have wanted for the last five decades: schools bulging with students.
After decades of staggering enrollment declines that have ravaged the district financially, DPS has found itself this fall with an influx of high school students — 1,844 more than last fall, a boost of 14 percent in grades 9-12.
It’s a small number in a district that once held 300,000 students but a feat in a city where more than 60 percent of children attend charter schools or suburban high schools across the city border.
The uptick is happening at only nine of the district’s 19 high schools. Much of the influx has occurred at two of the three general admission or neighborhood schools, East English Village and Western International.
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Of the high schools, it seems that the only one to show any significant loss was Northwestern.
It'll be interesting to see if this is just a really successful recruitment blip, because, long-term, the city needs to keep as many families as possible.