Editing Highland Park, Michigan (section)

===Primary and secondary schools===
[[File:Highland Park Renaissance Academy.jpg|thumb|Highland Park Renaissance Academy Barber Campus (K-8)]]
Highland Park is served by [[Highland Park Schools]], which was reorganized in 2012 as the Highland Park Public School Academy System, a [[Charter schools in the United States|public school academy]] district. The academy operates one school, Barber Preparatory Academy, a [[K-8 school]]. For [[high school]] education, students are zoned to [[Northwestern High School (Michigan)|Northwestern High School]] in the [[Detroit Public Schools Community District]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.detroitk12.org/Page/17829|title=Nonresident Students|publisher=[[Detroit Public Schools]]|accessdate=2025-01-19|quote=All Eighth-grade students from Highland Park are encouraged to call Northwestern High School for enrollment.}}</ref> [[Highland Park Community High School]] of Highland Park Schools closed in 2015.<ref>{{cite web|last=Lewis|first=Sharon D.|url=http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/2015/05/28/highland-park-high-school-closing/28117949/|title=Highland Park's high school to close as enrollment dips|newspaper=[[The Detroit News]]|date=May 28, 2015|accessdate=June 23, 2015|quote=Weatherspoon said high school students from Highland Park can enroll in nearby Detroit Public Schools, another neighboring district, a charter school or the state-run Education Achievement Authority. DPS will be the students’ home district.}}</ref>

[[George Washington Carver Academy]] is a K-8 charter school that was originally authorized by academy. The school's 2008 mathematics and English standardized test scores for 4th grade students were invalidated after cheating had been discovered.<ref>{{cite web|author=Dawsey, Chastity Pratt|author2=Peggy Walsh-Sarnecki|author3=Kristi Tanner|url=https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/education/2011-03-10-1Aschooltesting10_ST_N.htm|title=After cheating scandal, school learns lessons in taking tests|publisher=[[Detroit Free Press]] at the [[USA Today]]|date=March 10, 2011|access-date=April 30, 2017}}</ref> In 2013 the school participated in the "Students for Peace" competition in order to reduce the amount of fighting on campus; in 2012 91% of the students had received suspensions because they participated in fighting.<ref>{{cite web|author=Russell, Kim|url=http://www.wxyz.com/news/how-a-school-where-91-of-kids-had-been-suspended-for-violence-stopped-bullying-fights|title=How a school where 91% of kids had been suspended for violence stopped bullying & fights|publisher=[[WXYZ-TV]]|date=November 3, 2013|access-date=April 30, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170430113426/http://www.wxyz.com/news/how-a-school-where-91-of-kids-had-been-suspended-for-violence-stopped-bullying-fights|archive-date=April 30, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2016 it had 560 students, and it is managed by Midwest Management Group. That year it changed its authorizer to [[Bay Mills Community College]] out of concern that the Highland Park school district may collapse.<ref name=Guyettedisappearing>{{cite news|author=Guyette, Curt ([[American Civil Liberties Union]] of Michigan)|url=http://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/the-disappearing-district-shredded-democracy-lost-students-and-unanswered-debt-questions-in-highland-park/Content?oid=2453382|title=The disappearing district: what's happened to Highland Park schools?|newspaper=[[Metro Times]]|date=July 6, 2016|access-date=April 30, 2017}}</ref>