Hamtramck High School

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Hamtramck High School
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Address
Hamtramck High School
11410 Charest Street

Hamtramck
,
Michigan
48212

United States
Coordinates 42°24′09″N83°03′29″W / 42.4025°N 83.058°W / 42.4025; -83.058
Information
Type Public school
Established1930
School district Hamtramck Public Schools
PrincipalLawrence Stroughter
Teaching staff48.75 (on an FTE basis) [1]
Grades9–12 [1]
Enrollment965 (2023-2024) [1]
Student to teacher ratio19.79 [1]
Color(s)Maroon and white    [2]
Athletics conference Michigan Metro Athletic Conference [2]
Nickname Cosmos [2]
Website www.hamtramckschools.org/hhs
Student assessments
2021–22 school
year [3]
Change vs.
prior year [3]
M-STEP 11th grade proficiency rates
(Science / Social Studies)
Advanced %≤5 / ≤5
Proficient %≤5 / –
PR. Proficient %≤5 / 49.4
Not Proficient %– / 32.6
Average test scores
SAT Total836.8
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Hamtramck High School is a public high school in Hamtramck, Michigan, United States in Metro Detroit. It is a part of Hamtramck Public Schools.

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History

Hamtramck High School was originally located on Wyandotte and Hewitt Streets.[ citation needed ]

In 1925 655 students attended Hamtramck High School. JoEllen McNergney Vinyard, author of For Faith and Fortune: The Education of Catholic Immigrants in Detroit, 1805-1925 , wrote that Hamtramck High had "substantially more students than were in all of Detroit's Polish Catholic high schools combined." [4]

In 1970 the school moved to the former Copernicus Junior Middle School's former building.[ citation needed ]

Demographics

The demographic breakdown of the 999 students enrolled in 2016-17 was:

97.9% of the students were eligible for free or reduced-cost lunch. For 2016-17, Hamtramck was a Title I school. [1]

Note that Arab Americans are racially classified as "White". [5]

Notable alumni

References

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Hamtramck High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved June 29, 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 "MHSAA > Schools".
  3. 1 2 "MI School Data Annual Education Report". Mi School Data. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
  4. ↑ Vinyard, p. 183.
  5. ↑ Alsharif, Mirna; Tensley, Brandon (April 28, 2022). "Why Arabs and Arab Americans feel being counted as White in the US doesn't reflect their reality". CNN . Retrieved June 18, 2023.
  6. ↑ "About Aiyash". Abraham Aiyash for State Representative District 4. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  7. ↑ "Ex-Cager Brisker Missing". Indiana Gazette. June 9, 1980. Retrieved June 21, 2024.
  8. ↑ "Making history: HFC alumnus is Hamtramck's first Muslim mayor". www.hfcc.edu. January 5, 2022. Archived from the original on December 1, 2024. Retrieved December 1, 2024.
  9. ↑ "Art Macioszczcyk". ProFootballArchives.com. Archived from the original on May 8, 2021. Retrieved September 19, 2019.
  10. ↑ Taylor, Phil. "'hey, Call Anytime'." Sports Illustrated . July 4, 1994. Retrieved on April 11, 2009.
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