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Hamtramck Public Schools

August 22, 2023

Hamtramck Public Schools (HPS) is a public school district based in the city of Hamtramck, Michigan (USA) in Greater Detroit.

HPS Administration

The district has the Schools of Choice program, which allows non-district students to enroll in district schools.[1]

As of 2011 the official graduation rate is 62%. In 2011 the United Way for Southeastern Michigan arranged a program, funded by a $27.1 million General Motors Foundation grant, intended to improve the graduation rate.[2]

History

 
The oldest HPS school campus, Holbrook Elementary School

After Hamtramck became a municipality in 1922, every member of the Hamtramck Board of Education was a Pole and most students of the school system were Polish Catholics. In 1925, of the school district's 7,526 students, about 5,400 were ethnic Polish. Half of the ethnic Polish students were non-US citizens. By the mid-1920s, of the school-attending children in Hamtramck 66% attended public schools.[3] The public schools typically had 45 students per classroom while the parochial schools in Hamtramck had 70 students per classroom.[4] In the early 1920s the annual growth rate of Hamtramck Public Schools buildings was 27% while non-public schools had an annual growth rate of 6% in that period.[3] In the 1920s the Polish language became a part of the curriculum at Hamtramck Public Schools. In 1925 655 students attended Hamtramck High School. JoEllen McNergney Vinyard, author of For Faith and Fortune: The Education of Catholic Immigrants in Detroit, 1805-1925, wrote that Hamtramck High had "substantially more students than were in all of Detroit's Polish Catholic high schools combined."[4]

In the 1920s Hamtramck families often sent their children to public school for Kindergarten due to convenience, then moved their children to parochial schools during the periods with the most important religious instruction. Therefore, the age group 7 to 12 had the largest Catholic school enrollment. After the critical period ended, many students returned to public school. In 1925 the public schools had 1,467 students of ages 14–15 while the non-public schools had 217 students aged 14 and 15.[4]

In a period in the 20th Century, 8% of HPS teachers were Polish.[5]

 
Kosciuszko Middle School

In February 2003 the district had an annual budget of $35 million and had 3,800 students.[6]

In April 2003, George Ward, a former assistant prosecutor with the government of Wayne County, Michigan, investigated the spending practices of the district. The investigation described how the district spent $80,003 and took 18 months to build the Veterans Memorial Park picnic pavilion. It originally had been purchased as a picnic shelter kit at a home-improvement chain store for $2,000.[7]

In 2003, a five-year plan for the improvement of the district was revealed. The Detroit News, that year, described the district as "troubled".[8]

In June 2004 the Detroit News called the financial situation of the district "troubled".[9] On Thursday June 24, 2004, the Michigan Department of Education sent a team of academic and financial experts to conduct reviews of the school system. The Detroit News stated that under Michigan law, the first step for the state to take in order to take over the operations of a school district would be to conduct a financial review.[9] Martin Ackley, who served as the spokesperson for Tom Watkins, the State Superintendent of Education, argued that the move was not a state takeover but rather something he referred to as "state assistance."[9]

In 2005 the openings of charter schools had reduced the enrollment at the Hamtramck district schools. That year, Paul Stamatakis, the superintendent, stated that a committee was researching how viable it would be for the school district to provide classes for the Arabic and Bengali languages. This was an effort to retain its Arab and Muslim students.[10] In 2005 the district had a funding-per-pupil of $6,700 per year per, the lowest in the state. This compares to the funding-per-pupil of $7,100 per year of Detroit Public Schools. M. Kay Siblani of The Arab American News wrote that "Declining enrollment, rising costs and inadequate state funding are straining the system almost beyond repair."[11]

In 2008 officials from the district announced that they planned to offer vocational programs such as building trades, culinary arts, and computer training and to expand adult education.[12]

Demographics

As of the 2013-2014 school year the district had 3,078 students from 23 countries of origin. Fewer than 45% of students have English as a primary language.[13] As of 2013, the most common non-English languages spoken in the district are Bengali, Arabic, Bosnian, and Albanian.[14] 45% of the students are Arabic-speaking.[13]

In the 2008-2009 school year the district had 2,873 K-12 students, 69 preschool students and 281 adult/community education students from 23 countries of origin. 85% of the students were enrolled in free or reduced lunch. The main primary languages of students were English, Bengali (21.8%), Arabic (18.8%), Bosnian (7.5%), Polish (2.4%) and Albanian (1.5%).[15]

As of 2001, 900 registered students who spoke Bengali and Urdu attended Hamtramck Public Schools.[16]

Sally Howell, author of "Competing for Muslims: New Strategies for Urban Renewal in Detroit", wrote that "It is difficult to find educators in Hamtramck who speak positively about the challenges this diversity creates. Yet the public schools, overtaxed by non-English-language communities and riddled with ethnic tension among teens, are nonetheless eager to prevent the loss of their Muslim students to charter schools, or to Highland Park."[17]

School uniforms

Beginning on September 8, 2009, students in grades 1-8 in the district will be required to wear school uniforms.[18] Beginning in 2010, high school students also had to wear school uniforms.[19]

Schools

 
Hamtramck High School

[20]

High school

K-8

    • Kosciuzsko Middle School/Dickinson West
      • It was named after Thaddeus Kosciuszko. It has about 400 students. It became a middle school in the 1970s; previously it was an elementary school.[21]

Elementary schools

  • Grades 1-6
    • Dickinson East Elementary School
    • Dickinson West Elementary School - housed in the same building as Kosciusko, but most classes are in detached modular buildings.
  • Grades K-8
    • Holbrook Elementary School
      • Holbrook is Hamtramck's oldest school. It was named after the family of Dewitt C. Holbrook. The Hamtramck Planning Commission dedicated a plot of land towards constructing a school on June 26, 1891. By 1896 a frame schoolhouse had opened. In 1896 the school administration had three rooms added to the brick school building. During that year 350 students attended the school. The number of students steadily increased from 1901 to 1903. An extension opened in 1913. In the 1920s a fire destroyed the school's third floor. The school never had the floor rebuilt. The school was remodeled in 1929. The school website states "Improvements in the buildings heating system and lighting have occurred, but for the most part, the building remains the same today as it did in 1929."[22]
    • Tau Beta Elementary - opened 2017 in a 100 year old building formerly the hall of the Tau Beta society.
  • Pre-School-1
    • Early Childhood Center

Defunct schools

  • Carpenter Elementary School - This school has been razed.
  • Copernicus Elementary/Middle School - Present-day location of Hamtramck High School.
  • (Old) Hamtramck High School - Hamtramck used to be housed in an older building along Wyandotte & Hewitt streets, until it moved to Copernicus in 1970—this school has since been razed.
  • Pilsudski Elementary School - This school has been razed.( closed)
  • Pulaski Elementary School - This school has been razed.

See also

References

  • Feinstein, Otto. Ethnic Communities of Greater Detroit. Monteith College, Wayne State University, 1970.
  • Howell, Sally. "Competing for Muslims: New Strategies for Urban Renewal in Detroit". Located in: Shryock, Andrew (editor). Islamophobia/Islamophilia: Beyond the Politics of Enemy and Friend. Indiana University Press, June 30, 2010. ISBN 0253004543, 9780253004543.
  • Vinyard, JoEllen McNergney. For Faith and Fortune: The Education of Catholic Immigrants in Detroit, 1805-1925. University of Illinois Press, January 1, 1998. ISBN 025206707X, 9780252067075.

Notes

  1. ^ "2009 - 2010 Schools of Choice Registration 2020-01-09 at the Wayback Machine." Hamtramck Public Schools. Retrieved on June 18, 2009.
  2. ^ Sercombe, Charles. "Hamtramck Schools get a big boost 2012-03-15 at the Wayback Machine." The Hamtramck Review. April 15, 2011. Retrieved on April 18, 2011.
  3. ^ a b Vinyard, p. 182.
  4. ^ a b c Vinyard, p. 183.
  5. ^ Feinstein, p. 238. "The proportion of teachers of Polish descent is not so great in Detroit as in Hamtramck, where they constitute more than 8 per cent of the whole number. Northeastern High School in Detroit has the largest number of its staff, the principal, the librarian, and two of the teachers being Poles born in Europe."
  6. ^ "Charter school planned for Hamtramck." The Detroit News. February 26, 2003. Retrieved on September 8, 2013. Document ID: det15308115. "The Hamtramck Public Schools enroll 3800 students and have an annual budget of $35 million. Competition from the planned public school "will hurt the school[...]"
  7. ^ "Hamtramck schools' spending investigated." The Detroit News. April 16, 2003. Retrieved on September 8, 2013. Document ID: det16196414.
  8. ^ "Board works on improving schools." The Detroit News. June 18, 2003. Retrieved on September 8, 2013. Document ID: det16620923.
  9. ^ a b c "District's finances get state scrutiny." The Detroit News. June 25, 2004. Retrieved on September 8, 2013. Document ID det19206990.
  10. ^ Cecil, Angel. "HIGHLAND PARK SCHOOLS SEEK MORE ARAB, MUSLIM STUDENTS." Detroit Free Press. January 28, 2005. News p. B2. Retrieved on September 8, 2013. byline says: "HAMTRAMCK, DETROIT INTEND TO KEEP THEM" - article text says: "The Hamtramck and Detroit public school districts, which have seen charter schools decimate their enrollments, are studying ways to retain students. Because they're going to have Arabic classes. " and "Paul Stamatakis, superintendent of Hamtramck Public Schools, said a committee is researching the viability of offering classes in Arabic and Bengali."
  11. ^ Siblani, M. Kay. "." (Archive) The Arab American News. May 21, 2005. Retrieved on September 13, 2013. Highbeam Research.
  12. ^ Cecil, Angel and Zlati Meyer. "WAYNE COUNTY NEWS BRIEFS." Detroit Free Press. March 11, 2008. News p. B2. Retrieved on September 8, 2013. "Hamtramck Public Schools officials plan to expand adult education and offer vocational programs such as computer training, culinary arts and building trades."
  13. ^ a b "Educational Plan for English Language Learners Manual Title III Plan 2013/2014." (ELL Manual, ) Hamtramck Public Schools. p. 3/34. Retrieved on November 8, 2013.
  14. ^ "Educational Plan for English Language Learners Manual Title III Plan 2013/2014." (ELL Manual, ) Hamtramck Public Schools. p. 30 (32/34). Retrieved on November 8, 2013.
  15. ^ "Hamtramck Horizon Fall 2009." () Hamtramck Public Schools. p. 2. Retrieved on November 5, 2012. "The Hamtramck Public School students represent twenty-three countries of origin. Next to English, the top five primary languages are Bengali (21.8%); Arabic (18.8%); Bosnian (7.5%); Polish (2.4%) and Albanian, Shqip, (1.5%). Eleven other languages are considered primary languages by the rest of the student body."
  16. ^ Tysh, George. "Little Bengal." (Archive) Metro Times. June 5, 2002. Retrieved on September 8, 2013.
  17. ^ Howell, p. 219.
  18. ^ "Uniforms[permanent dead link]." Hamtramck Public Schools. Retrieved on June 18, 2009.
  19. ^ "Dress Code (2010-2011)[permanent dead link]." Hamtramck Public Schools. November 3, 2010. Retrieved on April 17, 2011.
  20. ^ "Map." Hamtramck Public Schools. Retrieved on June 18, 2009.
  21. ^ "Kosciuszko Middle School 2012-05-17 at the Wayback Machine." Hamtramck Public Schools. Retrieved on November 26, 2011.
  22. ^ "Holbrook Elementary." Hamtramck Public Schools. Retrieved on November 27, 2011.

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Hamtramck Public Schools HPS is a public school district based in the city of Hamtramck Michigan USA in Greater Detroit HPS AdministrationThe district has the Schools of Choice program which allows non district students to enroll in district schools 1 As of 2011 the official graduation rate is 62 In 2011 the United Way for Southeastern Michigan arranged a program funded by a 27 1 million General Motors Foundation grant intended to improve the graduation rate 2 Contents 1 History 2 Demographics 3 School uniforms 4 Schools 4 1 High school 4 2 K 8 4 3 Elementary schools 4 4 Defunct schools 5 See also 6 References 7 Notes 8 External linksHistory EditThis section needs expansion You can help by adding to it September 2013 The oldest HPS school campus Holbrook Elementary SchoolAfter Hamtramck became a municipality in 1922 every member of the Hamtramck Board of Education was a Pole and most students of the school system were Polish Catholics In 1925 of the school district s 7 526 students about 5 400 were ethnic Polish Half of the ethnic Polish students were non US citizens By the mid 1920s of the school attending children in Hamtramck 66 attended public schools 3 The public schools typically had 45 students per classroom while the parochial schools in Hamtramck had 70 students per classroom 4 In the early 1920s the annual growth rate of Hamtramck Public Schools buildings was 27 while non public schools had an annual growth rate of 6 in that period 3 In the 1920s the Polish language became a part of the curriculum at Hamtramck Public Schools In 1925 655 students attended Hamtramck High School JoEllen McNergney Vinyard author of For Faith and Fortune The Education of Catholic Immigrants in Detroit 1805 1925 wrote that Hamtramck High had substantially more students than were in all of Detroit s Polish Catholic high schools combined 4 In the 1920s Hamtramck families often sent their children to public school for Kindergarten due to convenience then moved their children to parochial schools during the periods with the most important religious instruction Therefore the age group 7 to 12 had the largest Catholic school enrollment After the critical period ended many students returned to public school In 1925 the public schools had 1 467 students of ages 14 15 while the non public schools had 217 students aged 14 and 15 4 In a period in the 20th Century 8 of HPS teachers were Polish 5 Kosciuszko Middle SchoolIn February 2003 the district had an annual budget of 35 million and had 3 800 students 6 In April 2003 George Ward a former assistant prosecutor with the government of Wayne County Michigan investigated the spending practices of the district The investigation described how the district spent 80 003 and took 18 months to build the Veterans Memorial Park picnic pavilion It originally had been purchased as a picnic shelter kit at a home improvement chain store for 2 000 7 In 2003 a five year plan for the improvement of the district was revealed The Detroit News that year described the district as troubled 8 In June 2004 the Detroit News called the financial situation of the district troubled 9 On Thursday June 24 2004 the Michigan Department of Education sent a team of academic and financial experts to conduct reviews of the school system The Detroit News stated that under Michigan law the first step for the state to take in order to take over the operations of a school district would be to conduct a financial review 9 Martin Ackley who served as the spokesperson for Tom Watkins the State Superintendent of Education argued that the move was not a state takeover but rather something he referred to as state assistance 9 In 2005 the openings of charter schools had reduced the enrollment at the Hamtramck district schools That year Paul Stamatakis the superintendent stated that a committee was researching how viable it would be for the school district to provide classes for the Arabic and Bengali languages This was an effort to retain its Arab and Muslim students 10 In 2005 the district had a funding per pupil of 6 700 per year per the lowest in the state This compares to the funding per pupil of 7 100 per year of Detroit Public Schools M Kay Siblani of The Arab American News wrote that Declining enrollment rising costs and inadequate state funding are straining the system almost beyond repair 11 In 2008 officials from the district announced that they planned to offer vocational programs such as building trades culinary arts and computer training and to expand adult education 12 Demographics EditAs of the 2013 2014 school year the district had 3 078 students from 23 countries of origin Fewer than 45 of students have English as a primary language 13 As of 2013 the most common non English languages spoken in the district are Bengali Arabic Bosnian and Albanian 14 45 of the students are Arabic speaking 13 In the 2008 2009 school year the district had 2 873 K 12 students 69 preschool students and 281 adult community education students from 23 countries of origin 85 of the students were enrolled in free or reduced lunch The main primary languages of students were English Bengali 21 8 Arabic 18 8 Bosnian 7 5 Polish 2 4 and Albanian 1 5 15 As of 2001 900 registered students who spoke Bengali and Urdu attended Hamtramck Public Schools 16 Sally Howell author of Competing for Muslims New Strategies for Urban Renewal in Detroit wrote that It is difficult to find educators in Hamtramck who speak positively about the challenges this diversity creates Yet the public schools overtaxed by non English language communities and riddled with ethnic tension among teens are nonetheless eager to prevent the loss of their Muslim students to charter schools or to Highland Park 17 School uniforms EditBeginning on September 8 2009 students in grades 1 8 in the district will be required to wear school uniforms 18 Beginning in 2010 high school students also had to wear school uniforms 19 Schools Edit Hamtramck High School 20 High school Edit Grades 9 12 Hamtramck High School Horizon High School alternative K 8 Edit Kosciuzsko Middle School Dickinson West It was named after Thaddeus Kosciuszko It has about 400 students It became a middle school in the 1970s previously it was an elementary school 21 Elementary schools Edit Grades 1 6 Dickinson East Elementary School Dickinson West Elementary School housed in the same building as Kosciusko but most classes are in detached modular buildings Grades K 8 Holbrook Elementary School Holbrook is Hamtramck s oldest school It was named after the family of Dewitt C Holbrook The Hamtramck Planning Commission dedicated a plot of land towards constructing a school on June 26 1891 By 1896 a frame schoolhouse had opened In 1896 the school administration had three rooms added to the brick school building During that year 350 students attended the school The number of students steadily increased from 1901 to 1903 An extension opened in 1913 In the 1920s a fire destroyed the school s third floor The school never had the floor rebuilt The school was remodeled in 1929 The school website states Improvements in the buildings heating system and lighting have occurred but for the most part the building remains the same today as it did in 1929 22 Tau Beta Elementary opened 2017 in a 100 year old building formerly the hall of the Tau Beta society Pre School 1 Early Childhood CenterDefunct schools Edit This section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed June 2009 Learn how and when to remove this template message Carpenter Elementary School This school has been razed Copernicus Elementary Middle School Present day location of Hamtramck High School Old Hamtramck High School Hamtramck used to be housed in an older building along Wyandotte amp Hewitt streets until it moved to Copernicus in 1970 this school has since been razed Pilsudski Elementary School This school has been razed closed Pulaski Elementary School This school has been razed See also EditPortals Michigan Schools List of school districts in MichiganReferences EditFeinstein Otto Ethnic Communities of Greater Detroit Monteith College Wayne State University 1970 Howell Sally Competing for Muslims New Strategies for Urban Renewal in Detroit Located in Shryock Andrew editor Islamophobia Islamophilia Beyond the Politics of Enemy and Friend Indiana University Press June 30 2010 ISBN 0253004543 9780253004543 Vinyard JoEllen McNergney For Faith and Fortune The Education of Catholic Immigrants in Detroit 1805 1925 University of Illinois Press January 1 1998 ISBN 025206707X 9780252067075 Notes Edit 2009 2010 Schools of Choice Registration Archived 2020 01 09 at the Wayback Machine Hamtramck Public Schools Retrieved on June 18 2009 Sercombe Charles Hamtramck Schools get a big boost Archived 2012 03 15 at the Wayback Machine The Hamtramck Review April 15 2011 Retrieved on April 18 2011 a b Vinyard p 182 a b c Vinyard p 183 Feinstein p 238 The proportion of teachers of Polish descent is not so great in Detroit as in Hamtramck where they constitute more than 8 per cent of the whole number Northeastern High School in Detroit has the largest number of its staff the principal the librarian and two of the teachers being Poles born in Europe Charter school planned for Hamtramck The Detroit News February 26 2003 Retrieved on September 8 2013 Document ID det15308115 The Hamtramck Public Schools enroll 3800 students and have an annual budget of 35 million Competition from the planned public school will hurt the school Hamtramck schools spending investigated The Detroit News April 16 2003 Retrieved on September 8 2013 Document ID det16196414 Board works on improving schools The Detroit News June 18 2003 Retrieved on September 8 2013 Document ID det16620923 a b c District s finances get state scrutiny The Detroit News June 25 2004 Retrieved on September 8 2013 Document ID det19206990 Cecil Angel HIGHLAND PARK SCHOOLS SEEK MORE ARAB MUSLIM STUDENTS Detroit Free Press January 28 2005 News p B2 Retrieved on September 8 2013 byline says HAMTRAMCK DETROIT INTEND TO KEEP THEM article text says The Hamtramck and Detroit public school districts which have seen charter schools decimate their enrollments are studying ways to retain students Because they re going to have Arabic classes and Paul Stamatakis superintendent of Hamtramck Public Schools said a committee is researching the viability of offering classes in Arabic and Bengali Siblani M Kay Hamtramck looks to community for school aid Archive The Arab American News May 21 2005 Retrieved on September 13 2013 Available at Highbeam Research Cecil Angel and Zlati Meyer WAYNE COUNTY NEWS BRIEFS Detroit Free Press March 11 2008 News p B2 Retrieved on September 8 2013 Hamtramck Public Schools officials plan to expand adult education and offer vocational programs such as computer training culinary arts and building trades a b Educational Plan for English Language Learners Manual Title III Plan 2013 2014 ELL Manual Archive Hamtramck Public Schools p 3 34 Retrieved on November 8 2013 Educational Plan for English Language Learners Manual Title III Plan 2013 2014 ELL Manual Archive Hamtramck Public Schools p 30 32 34 Retrieved on November 8 2013 Hamtramck Horizon Fall 2009 Archive Hamtramck Public Schools p 2 Retrieved on November 5 2012 The Hamtramck Public School students represent twenty three countries of origin Next to English the top five primary languages are Bengali 21 8 Arabic 18 8 Bosnian 7 5 Polish 2 4 and Albanian Shqip 1 5 Eleven other languages are considered primary languages by the rest of the student body Tysh George Little Bengal Archive Metro Times June 5 2002 Retrieved on September 8 2013 Howell p 219 Uniforms permanent dead link Hamtramck Public Schools Retrieved on June 18 2009 Dress Code 2010 2011 permanent dead link Hamtramck Public Schools November 3 2010 Retrieved on April 17 2011 Map Hamtramck Public Schools Retrieved on June 18 2009 Kosciuszko Middle School Archived 2012 05 17 at the Wayback Machine Hamtramck Public Schools Retrieved on November 26 2011 Holbrook Elementary Hamtramck Public Schools Retrieved on November 27 2011 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hamtramck Public Schools Official website School district map Michigan Department of Information Technology Center for Geographic Information Older map from March 2008 42 23 35 4 N 83 02 58 8 W 42 393167 N 83 049667 W 42 393167 83 049667 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Hamtramck Public Schools amp oldid 1167132279, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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