![]() Dear Parents, Students and Community Members, Im excited to share with you a few things we have going on at Parkdale Elementary School these days. Wilson is now a full-bore construction site - it’ll become the 28-home development called Wilson Park Village by the same company redeveloping Taft - while Jefferson last I saw it was starting to be renovated by a Troy company in an adaptive reuse as affordable housing units called Jefferson Oaks.įerndale today no longer has any more true neighborhood schools, instead operating a lower and upper elementary, a middle school and two high school programs. Parkdale Elementary School News November/December 2015 Parkdale Elementary School News November/December 2015. Students at Taft have also been arrested for neighborhood crimes such as burglaries and malicious destruction of property.”įerndale Schools in 2016 also closed the Woodrow Wilson and Thomas Jefferson schools, all as part of a districtwide restructuring to shed surplus real estate and free up money to fix up other buildings. According to an undated newspaper clipping from the Daily Tribune during the aughts, “More than 20 serious crimes are reported at the school annually, including drugs, assaults, robberies, thefts and weapons. In 2012 it was rebranded the Digital Learning Center.ĭuring those years, the building became associated with crime. With the district seeing declining enrollment, Taft ceased its life as a neighborhood school in 2002 and re-opened that fall as the Taft Education Center, a place for alternative adult education. Parkdale Elementary School is situated nearby to the churches Fairfield-St. Those structures were dismantled the tiles will reportedly be displayed at the Historical Museum on Livernois.Ī view of the former Taft school from Fielding Street. Parkdale Elementary School is a school building in Ontario. Inside Taft were Pewabic-tile inserts for a drinking fountain and fireplace decorated with animals, moons and star-decorated files. Taft was a sturdily built and handsome school, with one engraving over an entry door proclaiming the school’s motto: “Learn to do by doing” and another that read “Learn to live and live to learn.” A woman who helped me dig up background information at the Ferndale Historical Museum told me she attended Taft and remembers playing in the woods that previously stood behind the school all the way to Eight Mile today, that property is Garbutt Park. ![]() The city’s high school at the time was Lincoln High, which stood roughly on the site of what is now Ferndale Foods and its parking lot. Ridgewood itself opened in 1917, a stately two-story grade school that was served by a well and two outdoor toilets. Its opening came at a major time of growth for the city of Ferndale and its school district, with the Ford Model T plant a few miles south in Highland Park serving as a major employer and widely credited as helping to fuel the area’s development. The district sold that building and part of the land it was on in to the state in 1927 for $63,000 to facilitate the widening of Eight Mile, according to the publication “Ferndale 1918-1943: 25 Years of Progress.” ![]() It replaced the former Ridgewood School, which was located on the northwest corner of Livernois and Eight Mile Road. An engraving above one of the entryways at Taft read “Learn to live and live to learn.”įor much of its life Taft was a K-8 school. ![]()
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