Renaissance High School

Renaissance High School is a public high school located within the city of Detroit, Michigan. Renaissance is one of four magnet high schools in the Detroit Public Schools district; (the others being Cass Technical High School, Detroit School of Arts, and Communication & Media Arts High School).Founded in 1978 on the former site of Catholic Central High School, Renaissance's first senior class graduated in 1981. A new building for the school was dedicated in 2005 at the site of the former Sinai Hospital.AdmissionsAdmission is selective. Originally, 8th and 9th grade students from public and private schools took a proficiency exam before admission. A combination of the student's grades in middle school or junior high and the exam score determined school admission. This policy was changed in 1994 to allow transfer students to attend the school, although they must fulfill the same graduation requirements as other students. In 2006, more than 75% of the student's body was African-American. Renaissance opened in 1978 with first-year ("freshman") and second-year ("sophomore") students. Its first four-year graduating class received their diplomas in June 1982.New campusIn 2005, the school moved into a $200+ million campus complete with a language and computer labs, and a football field. Features include solar collectors, a rainwater harvesting system, and innovative cooling systems. The school moved from the building that is now F.L.I.C.S., or Foreign Language Immersion Cultural Studies.