By Gabi Chen
Today, over 1,800 students will walk the halls of Pioneer High School, Ann Arbor Public School’s largest high school in terms of enrollment numbers. Huron High School is a close second, coming in at about 1,623 students, and Skyline High School comes in last (not including Pathways to Success Academic Campus or Community High School) with around 1,464 students.
When Skyline first opened its doors in Fall 2008 to help relieve overcrowding at Huron and Pioneer, the goal was to have roughly 1,600 students at each school. However, with AAPS’ In-District Transfer and School of Choice programs, those numbers have strayed farther and farther from 1,600. The In-District Transfer program lets students whose home schools are within AAPS apply to take unfilled spots at AAPS schools that are not their home school, and the School of Choice Program offers the same thing to residents of Washtenaw, Ingham, Jackson, Lenawee, Livingston, Monroe, Oakland, and Wayne school districts.
“I think it’s fantastic, people can go wherever they want to go,” says sophomore Joy Cullen, whose home school is Huron.
“I like it,” agreed freshmen Miriam Wyllie-Scholz, whose home school in Skyline. “I’m glad I got to chose and didn’t just have to go to the school I would have gone to.”
“Wherever you go in AAPS you get a robust, diverse, education with some of the best educators in the state,” says sophomore and senior class principal Jason Akiba “Whichever school you go to gives you an edge over other places, it just does.”
Today, over 1,800 students will walk the halls of Pioneer High School, Ann Arbor Public School’s largest high school in terms of enrollment numbers. Huron High School is a close second, coming in at about 1,623 students, and Skyline High School comes in last (not including Pathways to Success Academic Campus or Community High School) with around 1,464 students.
When Skyline first opened its doors in Fall 2008 to help relieve overcrowding at Huron and Pioneer, the goal was to have roughly 1,600 students at each school. However, with AAPS’ In-District Transfer and School of Choice programs, those numbers have strayed farther and farther from 1,600. The In-District Transfer program lets students whose home schools are within AAPS apply to take unfilled spots at AAPS schools that are not their home school, and the School of Choice Program offers the same thing to residents of Washtenaw, Ingham, Jackson, Lenawee, Livingston, Monroe, Oakland, and Wayne school districts.
“I think it’s fantastic, people can go wherever they want to go,” says sophomore Joy Cullen, whose home school is Huron.
“I like it,” agreed freshmen Miriam Wyllie-Scholz, whose home school in Skyline. “I’m glad I got to chose and didn’t just have to go to the school I would have gone to.”
“Wherever you go in AAPS you get a robust, diverse, education with some of the best educators in the state,” says sophomore and senior class principal Jason Akiba “Whichever school you go to gives you an edge over other places, it just does.”