The cash-strapped city of Highland Park continues to crumble.
With an enrollment of only 160 students, the state and emergency manager for the Highland Park schools announced Thursday that it is closing its only high school June 22, at the end of the school year.
"These kinds of decisions are obviously not easy to make," said Don Weatherspoon, the state-appointed emergency manager, according to a report by Lori Higgens of the Detroit Free Press.
The closing of Highland Park Renaissance High School will leave the district with one school that will serve about 350 students in grades K-8, the Freep reports.
The Freep reports:
Weatherspoon is working on an agreement that will allow Highland Park students to attend schools in Detroit Public Schools. Students could also attend any school that covers high school grades, including those that are part of the Education Achievement Authority or charter schools, as well as any suburban school district that accepts students through the state's schools of choice program.
"I had to make the determination that based on that enrollment that it was no longer feasible to operate a high school," Weatherspoon said.
