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School reunion: Bloomfield Hills and Kensington to merge |
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“Kensington
is going home,” declared the Detroit Free Press in a recent
report on the merger of Academy of the Sacred Heart, Bloomfield
Hills, Michigan, and Kensington Academy. The schools will begin
reuniting educational programs this fall after twenty-four years
apart. When the merger is complete, Kensington, now situated in
Beverly Hills, Michigan, will return to the 45-acre campus it left in
1982 to become independent.. Bridget Bearss, RSCJ, head of Sacred
Heart, said the schools will build on each other’s strengths.
Bearss will lead the reunited institutions.
The Academy of
the Sacred Heart has 520 students: girls in preschool through twelfth
grade and boys in preschool through eighth grade. The oldest
independent school in Michigan, it was founded in Detroit in 1851 by
the Religious of the Sacred Heart and moved to Bloomfield Hills in
1958. Kensington, founded by lay Catholics in 1968 as a Sacred Heart
school for boys, is co-educational and has 125 students in preschool
through eighth grade.
More information
on the merger is available at the Academy of the Sacred Heart
website .
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