Highland Park Schools, officially the School District of the City of Highland Park, is a school district headquartered in Highland Park, Michigan, United States. The district serves the city of Highland Park, a total of 2.98 square miles (7.7 km2) of land.
As of August 2012, prior to the outsourcing of the remaining schools to the Leona Group, the district had three schools with almost 1,000 students. As of that year it was one of the lowest performing school districts in the State of Michigan. As of that year the district does not directly operate any schools. Instead it authorizes three charter school systems to operate, The Highland Park Public School Academy System (PreK-12) by Leona Group, Northpointe Academy (K-8), and George Washington Carver Academy (K-8). The three Leona Group schools, previously directly controlled by the district, operate under the name Highland Park Renaissance Academy.
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