The city’s only school for pregnant and parenting teens will close at the end of the month, Shawn D. Lewis reports in the Detroit News.
The school also ran one of Detroit's first sizeable farms, complete with a horse and pony.
The agency that authorizes the charter of Catherine Ferguson Academy for Young Women, a charter school that has been open for decades under the Detroit Public Schools, cited declining enrollment and a related drop in state aid as the reasons for the shutdown.
“The academy is closing because it’s not financially viable, and the revenue stream is dependent on enrollment,” Steve Ezikian, deputy superintendent of Wayne RESA, a regional agency that provides services to Wayne County school districts, told Lewis
Ezikian said Catherine Ferguson has less than 100 students, down from more than 200 in 2011.
DPS spokesman Steve Wasko confirmed plans to open a school to serve a similar population to that of Catherine Ferguson.
