Royal Oak Neighborhood Schools Explained

Royal Oak Neighborhood Schools or Royal Oak School District (ROSD) is a school district in Greater Detroit, Michigan. The district provides public school services for the municipality of Royal Oak and the easternmost portion of Berkley.^[1] The official name is School District of the City of Royal Oak.

Schools

Secondary schools

• Royal Oak High School
• Royal Oak Middle School

Primary schools

• Jane Addams Elementary School

Also Addams Early Childhood Center

• Helen Keller Elementary School
• Northwood Elementary School
• Oakland Elementary School(oldest in school district)
• Oak Ridge Elementary School
• Upton Elementary School

Alternative school

• Winston Churchill Community Education Center

Formerly Winston Churchill Elementary (later middle school) school

Former schools

• Union School (all grades; razed)

Subsequently the site of Washington Elementary School

• Grant Elementary (planned to open 2004, plans scrapped due to consolidation)
• Abraham Lincoln Elementary (razed 2008)

Also Lincoln Early Childhood Center

• U. S. Grant Elementary (razed)
• Thomas Jefferson Elementary (sold and converted for use as a Comcast cable TV download station)
• George Washington Elementary (sold to Oakland Community College and later razed)
• Benjamin Franklin Elementary (razed 2004)
• Edwin Starr Elementary (razed 2008)
• Ezra Parker Elementary (razed 2004)
• Edmund Lockman Elementary (razed 2015, used as storage due to being connected to Keller)
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Elementary (razed 2008)
• Mark Twain Elementary (razed 2008)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson Elementary (razed 2016, used as administrative offices)
• John Greenleaf Whittier Elementary (razed 2008)
• Northwood Elementary (replaced by new Northwood School, demolished 2008)
• Jane Addams Junior High (consolidated, now Addams Elementary/Addams Early Childhood Center)
• Clara Barton Junior High (razed)
• Helen Keller Junior High (consolidated, now Keller Elementary)
• Mary Lyon Junior High (razed)
• George A. Dondero High School (consolidated)
• Clarence M. Kimball High School (consolidated)

Student populations from Dondero High and Kimball High were consolidated as Royal Oak High School in the former Kimball High School. The former Dondero High became Royal Oak Middle School.

Notes

1. Web site: Pupil Enrollment Projection Study Report 2010-2014 . April 30, 2011 . Royal Oak Schools . See Map on Page 4 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110720113158/http://www.royaloakschools.com/portal/files/ROPS_2010-2014%20Report-12092009.pdf . July 20, 2011 .

External links

• http://www.rosd.k12.mi.us/portal/