Grosse Pointe South High School | |
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![]() Grosse Pointe South High School in September 2019 | |
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11 Grosse Pointe Boulevard , 48236-3711 United States | |
Coordinates | 42°23′27″N82°54′10″W / 42.390754°N 82.902652°W |
Information | |
Other names | South, Grosse Pointe South, GPS, GPSHS |
Former name | Grosse Pointe High School (1928-1968) |
Type | Comprehensive public high school |
Opened | 1928 |
Status | Currently operational |
School district | Grosse Pointe Public School System |
NCES District ID | 2625740 [1] |
Superintendent | Andrea Tuttle |
CEEB code | 231-802 [2] |
NCES School ID | 262574006220 [3] |
Principal | Moussa Hamka |
Teaching staff | 68.59 FTE [3] |
Grades | 9-12 |
Gender | Co-educational |
Enrollment | 1,238 [3] (2022-2023) |
• Grade 9 | 284 [3] |
• Grade 10 | 296 [3] |
• Grade 11 | 313 [3] |
• Grade 12 | 332 [3] |
• Ungraded | 14 [3] |
Student to teacher ratio | 18.05 [3] |
Schedule type | Semester |
Schedule | 7 50-minute periods |
Campus size | 23 acres [4] |
Campus type | Suburban |
Color(s) | Blue and Gold |
Song | "Grosse Pointe South Alma Mater" |
Fight song | "Victory March of the Blue Devils" |
Athletics conference | Macomb Area Conference - White division |
Mascot | Blue Devil ![]() |
Nickname | Blue Devils |
Rival | Grosse Pointe North High School Norsemen |
Accreditation | Cognia |
ACT average | 25.8 [5] |
Publication | Looking Glass (art and literary magazine) |
Newspaper | The Tower (print) The Tower Pulse (online) |
Yearbook | Viewpointe |
Communities served | Grosse Pointe |
Feeder schools | Pierce Middle School
Brownell Middle School |
Website | mi01000971 |
![]() Grosse Pointe South High School from the front lawn | |
Grosse Pointe High School | |
![]() Grosse Pointe High School historic site marker | |
Coordinates | 42°23′26″N82°54′14″W / 42.390686°N 82.903787°W |
Built | 1927-1928 |
Built by | Carl S. Barry Co. |
Architect | George J. Haas |
Architectural style | Colonial Revival (Neo-Georgian) |
NRHP reference No. | 93000429 |
MSHS No. | L1882 |
Significant dates | |
Architecture | 1927-1928 |
Education | 1928-1943 |
Art | 1938 |
Added to NRHP | May 20, 1993 |
Designated MSHS | 1992 |
Last updated: March 31, 2022 |
Martin Luther King Jr. in Grosse Pointe | |
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Coordinates | 42°23′27″N82°54′14″W / 42.390753°N 82.903830°W |
Designated | 2018 |
Reference no. | S754 |
Grosse Pointe South High School is a public high school of state and national historical significance serving the Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe. Originally known as Grosse Pointe High School when it opened in 1928, the school adopted its current name in 1968 after the newly established Grosse Pointe North High School began accepting students.
The school serves the following municipalities: [7] almost all of Grosse Pointe Farms, [8] and all of Grosse Pointe (city) and Grosse Pointe Park. [9] [10]
Elementary schools feeding into GPSHS include all of the zones of Defer, Kerby, Maire, Père Gabriel Richard, and Trombly. All of the boundaries of Pierce Middle School and most of the boundary of Brownell Middle School coincides with that of GPSHS. [7]
Student assessments | |
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2021–22 school year [11] Change vs. prior year [11] | |
M-STEP 11th grade proficiency rates (Science / Social Studies) | |
Advanced % | 37.5 / 22.5 |
Proficient % | 29.6 / 36.5 |
PR. Proficient % | 12.1 / 33.6 |
Not Proficient % | 20.8 / 7.5 |
Average test scores | |
SAT Total | 1116.1 ( ![]() |
In 2009, Newsweek ranked Grosse Pointe South in the top 2% of high school in the United States. [12] In 2010, Newsweek ranked Grosse Pointe South 920th nationally (fifth in Michigan). [13]
Grosse Pointe High School hosted a speech by Martin Luther King Jr. on March 14, 1968, when 2,700 people gathered in the gymnasium to hear a speech entitled "The Other America" three weeks before his assassination. [14]
To honor the 50th anniversary of the event the Grosse Pointe News partnered with the Grosse Pointe Board of REALTORS® in submitting an application for a historic site marker to be placed near the one previously installed on campus. [15] The marker, which was approved by the Michigan Historical Commission on July 27, 2018, was paid for by a grant from the National Association of Realtors ®. [15]
Grosse Pointe High School hosted game 1 of the NBA's Western Divisional Semi-finals vs the Detroit Pistons and Minneapolis Lakers on March 12, 1960. The Pistons were forced to play at the high school because nobody booked Olympia Stadium for the playoffs.
The game was a good one with the Lakers winning 113-112. [16]
As of 2010, the school offers 15 varsity sports teams for boys and 18 varsity sports teams for girls. These sports include baseball, basketball, competitive cheer, crew, cross country, field hockey, figure skating, football, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, sailing, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, synchronized swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball, and wrestling. Grosse Pointe South competes in the Macomb Area Conference (MAC), under the regulation of the Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA).
The boys' tennis team won the class A state championship in 1945 and 1946 and tied with Monroe High School in 1947. [17] The girls' tennis team won the state championship every year from 1976 to 1986 (Tying in 1976,1977,1982 and 1985), 2008, 2012, and 2014. [18]
Pointe Players is Grosse Pointe South's student theater organization. [19]
GPSHS has four show choirs: Pointe Singers varsity choir, Serendipity junior varsity, Rhapsody in Blue traditional concert choir, and the extracurricular female-only Tower Belles. [20] Pointe Singers, Serendipity, and Rhapsody in Blue are competitive, with Pointe Singers winning a national-level competition in 2019. [21]
The South Sun Devils is the solar car team, competing since 2013 in The Solar Car Challenge in Dallas, Texas. The team fundraised, designed, built, and raced their street-legal car on Texas Motor Speedway followed by a road test challenge. [22]
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