- Southwestern High School (Michigan)
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For schools of a similar name, see Southwest High School (disambiguation).
Southwestern High School Location 6921 W. Fort Street
Detroit, Michigan,
United StatesInformation Type Public secondary School district Detroit Public Schools Faculty 37 Grades 9-12 Number of students 817 Mascot Prospectors Website schools.detroitk12.org/Southwestern Southwestern High School is a high school in southwest Detroit, Michigan, USA. It is part of the Detroit Public Schools district.
Brewster Homes/Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects, Detroit public housing, is zoned to this school.
Notable alumni
- Former NBA basketball player, Jalen Rose
- Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon, Dr. Ben Carson
- Former NBA basketball player Voshon Lenard
- Former NBA basketball player Howard Eisley
- In 1926, Prospector trackman Kalman Bator won the Michigan High School Athletic Association title in the javelin throw. Seventy-four years later, William Agee became the first Southwestern student-athlete since Bator to win a MHSAA championship; Agee took first place in the 110-meter high hurdles, at the 2000 state finals.[1][2]
External links
- ^ http://www.mhsaa.com/Sports/BoysTrackField/IndividualChampions/1920s.aspx
- ^ http://www.mhsaa.com/Sports/BoysTrackField/IndividualChampions/2000s.aspx
Detroit Public Schools (DPS) Zoned high schools Central • Cody • Cooley • Denby • Ford • Kettering • King • Mumford • Northwestern • Osborn • Pershing • Southeastern • Southwestern • Western InternationalOptional high schools Barsamian Preparatory Center • Cass Technical • Communication & Media Arts • Crosman • Davis Aerospace • Detroit City • Detroit Technology High School • Detroit School of Arts • Catherine Ferguson Academy • Millennium School • Renaissance • Trombly Alternative • West Side Academy Alternative EducationFormer high schools See also: List of high schools in MichiganCategories:- High schools in Michigan
- Schools in Detroit, Michigan
- Michigan school stubs
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