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Motto
Cranbrook:"Aim High"
Kingswood:"Enter to Learn, Go Forth to Serve"		




Established
	1904




	School type
	Private




	Director of Schools
	Arlyce Seibert




	Location
	Bloomfield Hills, Mich., USA




	Enrollment
	507 day, 263 boarding




	Faculty
	105




	Campus
	Suburban, 311 acres (1.3 km²)




	Athletics
	52 teams




	Homepage
	[schools.cranbrook.edu]





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This article is about the private Pre K-12 school in the United States; For alternate uses, including other Cranbrook Schools, see Cranbrook (disambiguation).


Cranbrook Schools is a private, PK-12 school located on a 319-acre campus in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit; it is one of the largest independent schools in the United States. The community was founded in 1904 by publishing mogul George Booth, but Booth only began work on the planning and construction of the educational institutions in 1922. Cranbrook Schools is part of the Cranbrook Educational Community (CEC), which also includes the Cranbrook Institute of Science, the Cranbrook Academy of Art, and Cranbrook House and Gardens. 





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Past and Present

Booth and his wife decided to begin expanding upon their property for the use of the public with the Greek Theater, built in 1915 and still used to this day as an outdoors theater for students of all ages. The Meeting House, first the Bloomfield Hills school and changed to Brookside School Cranbrook in 1929, was built in 1918 but was first used as a school for local children in 1922. Approximately 500 students, enrolled in either junior or senior kindergarten and grades 1 through 5, attend the Vlasic Early Childhood Center and Brookside respectively.


Cranbrook School for Boys, completed in 1928, was the first project headed by Eliel Saarinen; Kingswood School for Girls was opened in 1931. These three schools operated separately until a decision in 1970 to govern them all together; this was soon followed by the creation of the Cranbrook Educational Community.


The middle school was soon divided into two campuses in 1984; this decision was helped along by the CEC's acquisition of Vaughan School, which still is to this day the home of the boys' middle school with 165 boys currently enrolled. The basement of Kingswood is the girls' middle school, with 166 girls enrolled. All classes with the exception of performing arts (Symphonic Band and Orchestra) are separate for boys and girls from grades 6-8, and English, Religion, and History remain separate through grade 10.


Cranbrook and Kingswood were merged in the same year as well in order to create a coeducational upper school, with classes in both of the original Cranbrook and Kingswood campuses. Currently, mathematics, sciences, foreign language, religion & philosophy, and performing arts are taught on the Cranbrook campus, while English, history, and fine arts are taught on the Kingswood campus. As of 2006, there are 763 students, approximately 1/3 of which are boarding students who live in single-sex residence halls. Cranbrook Kingswood is commonly referred to as "CK" by its students, faculty, and alumni. A college preparatory school, CK offers a comprehensive and challenging program that includes 15 Advanced Placement courses in its upper school.



Pictures




Cranbrook Oval Image By: [Alexander O. Smith (Class of 2006)]

Cranbrook Oval Image By: [Alexander O. Smith (Class of 2006)]








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