Hamtramck Public Schools is a public school district

School district

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 based in the city of Hamtramck

Hamtramck, Michigan

Hamtramck is a city in Wayne County of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 22,423. Hamtramck is surrounded by the city of Detroit except for a small portion of the western border that touches the similarly surrounded city of Highland Park...

, Michigan

Michigan

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 (USA

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).

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

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.

School uniforms

Beginning on September 8, 2009, students in grades 1-8 in the district will be required to wear school uniform

School uniform

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s. Beginning in 2010, high school students also had to wear school uniforms.

Middle School

• Grades 7-8
  • Kosciuzsko Middle School
    • 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.

Elementary Schools

• Grades 1-6
  • Dickinson East Elementary School
  • Dickinson West Elementary School

• Grades K-7
  • 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 1986 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."

• Pre-School and Kindergarten
  • Early Childhood Center

Defunct Schools

• Carpenter Elementary School - This school has been razed.
• Copernicus Elementary/Middle School - Present-day location of Hamtramck High School
  Hamtramck High School
  Hamtramck High School is a public high school in Hamtramck, Michigan, United States, named after Colonel Jean François Hamtramck.-History:Hamtramck High School was originally located on Wyandotte and Hewitt Streets until 1970 when it was moved to the former Copernicus Junior Middle School.A...
  
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• (Old) Hamtramck High School - Hamtramck used to be housed in an older building along Wyandotte & Hewitt streets, until it moved to Copernicus in 1970. The old building has since been demolished.
• Pilsudski Elementary School - This school has been razed.
• Pulaski Elementary School - This school has been razed.

External links

• Hamtramck Public Schools

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