1921
OPENED
186,000
SQUARE FEET
2009
CLOSED
2029
KIDS RETURN
Detroit’s Historic Levi Barbour Intermediate School
This school, designed by the firm Malcolmson & Higginbotham, opened in 1921 in Detroit's Pingree Park neighborhood.
The building was closed in 2009, one of dozens of schools shuttered by the Detroit Public Schools District as it struggled with finances amid plummeting student enrollment and state funding.
We’re here to change that.
Our schools serve as hubs for joy, healing, and connection - proving that when schools thrive, the neighborhoods around them do too.
How you can help!
Every philanthropic dollar means less debt that ultimately has to be carried by a public school.