A private college prep boarding school located in Bloomfield Hills, MI

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Early | Ages 3-5

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Academics at Cranbrook Schools provide students with a challenging and comprehensive college preparation, balanced with individualized instruction and a focus on knowing – and developing – the whole student.
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Cranbrook is a vibrant community of learners and teachers from around the world offering much more to students than outstanding academic instruction.
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Cranbrook’s historic, 319-acre grounds provide Cranbrook Schools with resources unequaled by any other preparatory school environment in the world. Here are just some of the highlights.
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The Cranbrook Schools experience is not limited to the academic year. Discover all the ways to enjoy the Cranbrook experience during the beautiful summer months on campus.

Opportunity that Lasts a Lifetime

Thanks to all the families who attended our 2023 Winter Open House!

Problem Solving. Critical Thinking. Global Perspective. Creativity.

It is no surprise to us that so many of our alumni credit Cranbrook as one of the biggest factors in their success and happiness in life, and that so many of them have gone on to shape the world in so many ways.

Balanced between a legacy of educational innovation and a rich history of tradition, Cranbrook is more than the opportunity for a great education. It is an opportunity for a great future - a future where our students today can have their own opportunity to shape the world.

Any school can offer an education. At Cranbrook Schools, we offer opportunity that lasts a lifetime.

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Middle School Students Engineer for Speed

MSB holds the second annual “Cardboard Sled Downhill Classic.”
Cranbrook Boy’s Swim and Dive Wins District 3 State Championship!
Why Did the Chicken Cross the River in the Sky?

Worldviews & Civilizations classes mummify chickens as part of their study of ancient Egypt.

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Spring Break (No School)
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Faculty In-Service Day (No Classes)
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Classes Resume
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Ivan Krstic ‘04

Cybersecurity
Ivan Krstic first became interested in cyber security in 1997 when he says he realized “that the simple question of ‘how do I delete my files safely’ had a tremendously complex answer.” Krstic took that curiosity from Cranbrook to Harvard, where he would eventually take a leave to become a systems security and architecture specialist as the Director of Security Architecture for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program. It was his Bitfrost security design for OLPC that captured the attention of Apple, where he is now the Head of Security Engineering + Architecture. Read more.
Cathy Sybert Olkin '84

Aerospace
In 2006, Cranbrook Kingswood graduate Cathy Olkin stood near the shoreline in Cape Canaveral, Florida, and watched a spacecraft she helped design begin its ascent to Pluto. It was an experience Olkin doesn’t believe she would have been a part of if not for her early start at Cranbrook. “At Cranbrook, I was in an environment where I was able to reach more and learn more,” Olkin says. “Being curious was a safe thing to be. It was accepted.” Olkin is a pioneer, not only by being part of the “New Horizons” team sending the first spacecraft to Pluto, but also by preparing to fly into space herself. Read more.
Natalie Zemon Davis '45

Humanities
Natalie Zemon Davis has always been captivated by the possibilities of social transformation. It began during her days at Kingswood, when her studies in history, literature, current events and ethics began to shape her world view. "I feel I developed a social conscience at Kingswood,” says Davis, who has written nine books, including the popular “The Return of Martin Guerre.” The importance of her work has been recognized by scholars around the world, and it has been said that she is one of today’s most creative historians, using her unique combination of imagination and painstaking research to tell the story of the human experience through the eyes of the ordinary person, not the elite. Read more.

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PO Box 801
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48303
(248) 645-3000

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Thanks to all the families who attended our 2023 Winter Open House!

Problem Solving. Critical Thinking. Global Perspective. Creativity.