9 DPS schools to close, 7 more to consolidate under reorganization

DETROIT (WXYZ) - Detroit Public Schools Emergency Manager Roy Roberts is announcing plans to cut the district's budget.

According to the plan 9 school buildings will be closed. Four other schools will be turned into DPS-authorized charter schools and seven outdated schools will be consolidated into four new buildings.

The buildings that will be closed are City High, Day School for the Deaf, Jemison, Kettering High and West Wing, Maybury and Southwestern.

Other closures will include Ludington (which will have the program moved to Langston Hughes which will then be renamed Ludington Magnet), Mason (which will have the program moved to Farwell and will be renamed Mason), Robeson Early Learning Center (with the kindergarten students moving to the main Paul Robeson/Malcolm X Academy and the pre-K students moving to Palmer Park).

The four schools that will be turned into charter schools will be Cooke, MacDowell, Noble and Rutherford.

The seven schools that will be consolidated are Logan, O. W. Holmes, Parker, Barton, Mumford, Crockett and Finney.

Logan and O. W. Holmes will be moved to the new Munger. Parker and Barton will be moved to the new Mackenzie. Mumford will reopen as Mumford in a new building and Crockett and Finney will move to the new East English Village Preparatory Academy. The Academy will be a new application school for 9th graders and current 10th to 12th graders at Finney and Crockett will be offered enrollment.