The School at Marygrove

The Marygrove Campus, housed in the Fitzgerald neighborhood in Northwest Detroit, is a 53-acre campus that was originally home to Marygrove College. The Marygrove Conservancy, established in 2018 upon the closing of the College, serves as a nonprofit steward of the Marygrove Campus. Through a collaborative venture between Detroit Public Schools Community District and the University of Michigan School of Education, the Marygrove Conservancy re-envisioned the campus into a P-20 educational program that serves the community and its children from birth through college and career. The school also provides a professional training “residency” program for students and graduates of the University of Michigan School of Education. Two buildings on the Marygrove Campus were selected to serve the K-12 teaching spaces. Both buildings will receive significant renovations to align with the new K-12 programmatic requirements as well as comprehensive infrastructure upgrades. In order to secure historical tax credits through SHPO, these renovations have been carefully coordinated to preserve historical intent.

The Liberal Arts building is an ornate Neo Gothic building located at the center of the Marygrove Campus. Through the design, the building serves grades 6-12 and extends the P-20 collaborative educational environment into specialized learning labs. Classroom spaces provide the space needed to enable a first-class education and provide visual transparency to common spaces throughout the school to foster the teaching mission of the P-20 vision. Middle school and high school students share collective spaces including the dining hall, library, fitness rooms and maker’s spaces, as well as unique social spaces that enable each grade to enjoy casual learning and socializing opportunities.