Editing Royal Oak, Michigan (section)

==Education==
The city is served by [[Royal Oak Neighborhood Schools]]. Private K-12 education is also offered by Shrine of the Little Flower Catholic Church while nearby St. Mary's offers K-8 instruction. A branch of [[Oakland Community College]] is located in the city and a new location of [[Baker College]] is nearing the end of construction.

A portion of land in the city is zoned to Berkley Public Schools.

In recent years Royal Oak has begun to consolidate its public schools in response to a decline in enrollment levels compared to the [[baby boom]] era. In 2006, the city's two public high schools, [[Dondero High School|George A. Dondero High School]] and [[Clarence M. Kimball High School]], were combined into a new [[Royal Oak High School]]. Beginning in 2007, the city's two middle schools were combined into one school, Royal Oak Middle School, in the former Dondero building. The number of elementary schools was reduced to six.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.royaloakschools.com/portal/consolidationinformation|title=Consolidation Information {{!}} Royal Oak Schools|website=www.royaloakschools.com|access-date=May 4, 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311080708/http://royaloakschools.com/portal/consolidationinformation|archive-date=March 11, 2016}}</ref> Some parents protested the planned closure and demolition of Longfellow and Whittier elementary schools. They were seeking to have them considered for historic district recognition by way of signed petition.<ref name=":0" /> Despite their efforts, both schools and a number of other former elementary schools were demolished in the fall of 2007.

The Royal Oak school system gained brief notoriety for an incident following the Trump election. Some middle schoolers chanted "build that wall". A student video of the incident was widely shared on [[Facebook]], attracting more than 4 million views within 24 hours.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2016/11/10/royal-oak-students-chant-build-wall-cafeteria/93581592/|title=Royal Oak Middle School students chant 'Build the wall'|newspaper=Detroit News|access-date=November 10, 2016}}</ref> A week later a noose was found in the 8th grade boys bathroom at the middle school. The student who had placed the noose in the bathroom was removed from the school shortly afterward.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.freep.com/story/news/education/2016/11/20/royal-oak-middle-noose/94173500/|title=Royal Oak middle schooler who hung noose is removed from school|last=higginsloria|website=Detroit Free Press|language=en|access-date=2019-04-11}}</ref>

St. Dennis School of the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit]] was formerly in Royal Oak. It closed in 2011.<ref name=DavidsJudy>{{cite web|author=Davids, Judy|url=https://patch.com/michigan/royaloak/sad-reflective-goodbye-from-closing-royal-oak-church|title=Sad, Reflective Goodbye for Closing Royal Oak Church|work=Royal Oak Patch|date=2012-11-26|access-date=2020-05-02}}</ref>