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By Robert Kennedy, About.com

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Michigan is home to over 950 private schools. For a complete list go to the NCES site and input Michigan in the state field. Private schools with their own Web site are listed here.

Academy of the Sacred Heart, Bloomfield Hills
"Founded in 1851, the Academy of the Sacred Heart is Michigan's oldest independent school." PK-12. Coed.

Ann Arbor Academy, Ann Arbor
"Ann Arbor Academy's mission is to educate students with different learning styles to achieve their full potential."

Bethany Academy, Bloomington
"Bethany Academy is a well-balanced, independent, K-12 Christian school located in Bloomington, MN."

Bishop Gallagher High School, Harper Woods
"Bishop Gallagher Catholic High School has been providing excellence in a coeducational college prep education since 1962.

Clonlara School, Ann Arbor
Clonlara School operates both a private Campus School that students attend daily and, as an extension, our Home Based Education Program that serves students who opt for home schooling. Each Clonlara student completes a personalized education. Our fully-accredited programs provide curriculum and guidance to reach that end.

Cranbrook Schools, Bloomfield Hills
"The non-profit educational community includes a public art museum and public science museum as well as private schools for children age three through high school and a graduate school for art."

Daycroft Montessori School, Ann Arbor
"At Daycroft, the teacher's primary objective is to carefully observe children to determine their individual needs and skills and to prepare the classroom and lessons which facilitate their learning. We believe this "prepared environment" enables children to develop independently and to progress at their own pace."

Dearborn Heights Montessori Center, Dearborn Heights
"Dearborn Heights Montessori Center, a non-profit educational community founded in 1972, provides a non-graded, individualized learning environment for approximately 400 children from preschool through eighth grade."

Detroit Waldorf School, Detroit
"The teachers at Detroit Waldorf are committed to the highest academic standards. At our school you will find children quoting Shakespeare, performing Latin canticles, writing textbooks of Euclidean geometry."

Eagle Creek Academy, Oakland
"Our mission is to help every child build an excellent academic foundation and a strong sense of self-confidence."

Emerson School, Ann Arbor
"Emerson is an independent K-8 school for gifted and for academically talented students."

Friends School in Detroit, Detroit
"Coeducational, Day. PK - 8, 176 students."

Hillel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit, Farmington Hills
"Hillel Day School provides a community that embraces every child and allows all students to reach their highest potential, all within a warm and positive atmosphere." K-8. Coed. Day

Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen
"Interlochen Center for the Arts is home to Interlochen Arts Academy, the nation's premier boarding high school for the arts and academics...offering a year round educational community for young artists and scholars ages 8-18."

The Jewish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit, West Bloomfield
"The Jewish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit is an independent, coeducational, Jewish day high school offering a rigorous college preparatory curriculum integrated with an intensive Jewish Studies program."

Kensington Academy, Beverly Hills
"An independent co-ed Catholic day school preprimary (Montessori) - 8th Grade."

The Krambrooke-Griffin Academy, Washington
"Krambrooke provides an individualized program for each child, infant through school-age. By providing a comfortable, conducive learning environment we can promote positive self-esteem and challenge each child to live to their potential".

Lansing Christian Middle School, Lansing
"Lansing Christian School dedicates itself to providing an academically challenging Christian education distinguished by excellence and moral integrity, recognizing God as the source of all wisdom."

Leelanau School, Glen Arbor
"We are a college preparatory, coeducational, nondenominational boarding school for students in grades 9-12. "

Lutheran High School North, Macomb
"All aspects of the school's curricular and co-curricular programs are intended to help students prepare to earn a living, to live a satisfying Christian life, and to prepare for eternity."

Lutheran High School, Westland
"Lutheran Westland has grades 9-12 and a 1998-99 enrollment of 317 students."

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