Inkster High School

Inkster High School

Inkster High School was a high school in Inkster, Michigan in Metro Detroit. It was a part of Inkster Public Schools.

History

Inkster High School on Middlebelt was built in 1952.

Inkster High School - 1952

In 2013 the school had 940 students.^[1]

It closed in 2013 when the Inkster district was closed. Everett Cook of the Michigan Daily stated in October 2013 that due to the litter of materials on the sports fields, "Officially, the school has been shut down for three months, but it looks like it’s been abandoned for years, as if one day Inkster was operating, and the next everyone picked up and left."^[2]

Areas were given to the new districts by quadrants. Students north of Michigan Avenue and west of Middlebelt were rezoned to Wayne-Westland Community School District. Students north of Michigan Avenue and east of Middlebelt were rezoned to Robichaud High School in the Westwood Community School District. Students south of Michigan Avenue and west of Middlebelt were rezoned to Romulus High School in the Romulus Community School District. Students south of Michigan and east of Middlebelt were rezoned to the Taylor School District.^[3]

Athletics

The mascot of Inkster High School was a Viking.^[4] Prior to 2005, the Inkster Vikings football team had never made the playoffs. Greg Carter became the athletic director and American football coach in 2005 after the closure of the school for which he was previously the coach, St. Martin de Porres High School in Detroit. The team qualified for the playoffs during Carter's first year as a head coach and consistently repeated its performance in later years, three times reaching the state championship. Carter resigned his position in 2011.^[5]

Notable alumni

Devin Gardner^[2] - Transferred from University of Detroit Jesuit High School to Inkster in November during his second (sophomore) year.^[6]
Cam Gordon^[2] - Gordon began attending Inkster High around the same time Gardner did. He is one year older than Gardner.^[6]

References

↑ Higgins, Lori. "Inkster district could convert high school into a charter school." Detroit Free Press. January 30, 2013. Retrieved on February 12, 2013.
1 2 3 Cook, Everett. "At Gardner's alma mater, a school with no students." Michigan Daily. October 3, 2013. p. 1. Retrieved on November 2, 2013.
↑ Smith, Brian. "Inkster schools first to be dissolved; students split across 4 districts." Mlive. July 26, 2013. Retrieved on November 2, 2013.
↑ http://www.inksterschools.org/departments/athletics
↑ Cook, Everett. "At Gardner's alma mater, a school with no students." Michigan Daily. October 3, 2013. p. 2. Retrieved on November 2, 2013.
1 2 Cook, Everett. "At Gardner's alma mater, a school with no students." Michigan Daily. October 3, 2013. p. 3. Retrieved on November 2, 2013.

External links

Inkster High School (Archive)

Inkster, Michigan

Education

Primary and secondary schools

Alternative school	Garden City Public Schools Burger Baylor School for Students with Autism

Closed	Inkster Public Schools Inkster High School

This list is incomplete.
Garden City schools does not have any of its attendance boundary in Inkster, but one of its alternative schools is in the Inkster city limits.

High schools in Wayne County, Michigan

Public high schools

Detroit Public Schools

Neighborhood schools	Central Cody Denby East English Village Ford King Mumford Northwestern Osborn Pershing Southeastern Western International

Alternative schools	Academy of the Americas Barsamian Preparatory Center Cass Technical Communication & Media Arts Crosman Davis Aerospace Detroit International Academy for Young Women Detroit Technology High School Detroit School of Arts Douglass Academy Millennium School Renaissance Trombly Alternative West Side Academy Alternative Education White Center

Closed or merged	Chadsey Cooley Crockett Detroit City Finney Kettering Mackenzie Murray-Wright Northeastern Northern Redford Southwestern Catherine Ferguson Academy (alternative)

Other public schools

Neighborhood schools	Allen Park Annapolis (Dearborn Heights) Carlson (Gibraltar) Winston Churchill (Livonia) Clarenceville Crestwood (Dearborn Heights) Dearborn Ecorse Community Edsel Ford (Dearborn) Flat Rock Fordson (Dearborn) Benjamin Franklin (Livonia) Garden City John Glenn (Westland) Grosse Ile Grosse Pointe North Grosse Pointe South Hamtramck Harper Woods John F. Kennedy (Taylor) Lincoln Park Melvindale Northville Plymouth-Canton Educational Park (Canton) Plymouth (Canton) Redford Union Robichaud (Dearborn Heights) River Rouge Romulus Theodore Roosevelt (Wyandotte) Southgate Anderson Adlai E. Stevenson (Livonia) Thurston (Redford) Trenton Harry S. Truman (Taylor) Wayne Memorial Woodhaven (Brownstown Township)

Alternative schools	Burger School for Students with Autism (Inkster) Dearborn Center for Math, Science and Technology Dearborn Magnet Henry Ford Collegiate Academy (Dearborn)

Closed	Highland Park Community Inkster

Charter schools

Chandler Park Academy (Harper Woods)
Cesar Chavez Academy (Detroit)
Clara B. Ford Academy (Dearborn Heights)
Consortium College Prep (Detroit)
Cornerstone Schools High School (Detroit)
Henry Ford Academy (Dearborn)
Plymouth Educational Center (Detroit)
Jalen Rose Leadership Academy (Detroit)
Universal Academy (Detroit)
Universal Learning Academy (Westland)
University Prep Schools (Detroit)

Closed	Catherine Ferguson Academy (Detroit)

Independent

Secular private

University Liggett School

Religious

Closed or merged	Holy Redeemer Notre Dame Our Lady of Mount Carmel St. Florian Trinity Catholic

Moved	Detroit Catholic Central (to Novi in 2005) Regina (to Warren in 2007)

This list is incomplete.

Coordinates: 42°17′09″N 83°19′49″W / 42.2859°N 83.3302°W / 42.2859; -83.3302

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