Saginaw Arts And Sciences Academy - Saginaw, Michigan/MI

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Saginaw Arts And Sciences Academy

200 Congress Avenue, Saginaw, MI, 48607-5378 -

tel: (989)399-5500
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Definition of Terms

Saginaw Arts And Sciences Academy

School Type

Magnet School

Grades Offered

Grades 6 - 12

County

Saginaw County, MI

Students & Faculty

Total Students

459 students

% Male / % Female

45% / 55%

Total Classroom Teachers

27 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 6 - 107 students

Grade 7 - 118 students

Grade 8 - 76 students

Grade 9 - 52 students

Grade 10 - 51 students

Grade 11 - 27 students

Grade 12 - 28 students

This School

(MI) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:17

1:18

Students by Ethnicity

This School

(MI) School Average

% American Indian	n/a	n/a
% Asian	9%	2%
% Hispanic	8%	5%
% Black	25%	23%
% White	57%	67%
% Unknown	1 %	3%

Additional Student Information

This School

(MI) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

20%

35%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

n/a

(MI) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

Saginaw City School District

This School's Agency

(MI) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	30	3
Number of Students Managed	12,304 students	1,010 students
District Total Revenue	$113,129,000	$10,348,000
District Expenditure	$117,177,000	$10,395,000
District Revenue / Student	$9,194	$89,610
District Expenditure / Student	$9,523	$93,823

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Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy, or SASA, is a small public high school and middle school. It is considered to be a magnet school, and it maintains high test scores in the Mid-Michigan Tri-Cities Region.
SASA's concentration program is unusual, even for a magnet school. Middle school concentration programs include Global Studies/Language Arts, Voice/Keyboard, 2-D Art, 3-D Art, Dance, Math/Science. High school concentrations include Global Studies, Math/Science, Language Arts, Voice/Keyboard, 2-D Art, 3-D Art, Dance, and Theatre. Due to budget cuts, the Middle school Theater concentration has been suspended for an unknown duration, but it may be reinstated by the 2006-07 school year, in a statement released by the principal.
History: The Saginaw Arts & Sciences Academy is located in a building that originally housed a Montgomery Ward department store. In the early 1980s, the school district of the city of Saginaw purchased the building and announced plans to convert it into a half-day specialized high-school and middle-school program for advanced students called the Center for the Arts & Sciences (CAS). At the time the announcement was made to the local press, district spokesman Michael Manley recalled that discarded mannequins still filled the building. New dividing walls were constructed to create classrooms, although the fact that the building was originally a department store is still somewhat apparent (especially because of the lack of windows).
During the 1980s and 1990s, the CAS shared its building with the Ruben Daniels Center for Lifelong Education, an adult and alternative high school also run by the Saginaw School district. The CAS met with surprising success, and began drawing students from throughout the Saginaw-valley area, including Saginaw, Bay, and Midland counties.
In the late 1990s, a committee of students, parents, and teachers began a campaign to expand the school to include a full-day option. This committee took on the name "The River School Project", owing to the school's location on the banks of the Saginaw River near downtown Saginaw. Although the committee met with much doubt and resistance, support gradually built, and after several meetings the Saginaw School Board eventually unanimously approved plans to expand the school and change the name to the Saginaw Arts & Sciences Academy. In 1999, full-day programs were added for the 9th and 10th grade, with the 11th grade following in 2000, and the 12th grade in 2001. The school initially had far fewer full-day students than half-day, but since the early days of the full-day program, full-time enrollment has greatly expanded.
The history of CAS/SASA would not be complete without the mention of outstanding principal Mr. Birdsall. During the nineties, U of M alum Mr. Birdsall would strike awe in the hearts of the incoming students during his welcoming speech. He emphasized respect, and once he retired, the halls of CAS/SASA seemed to get a little louder, a little rowdier. He also ran Driver's Ed on the site during the summer.
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About This Zip Code (48607)

School Zip (48607)

(MI) State Average

Population (Approximate)

2,575 people

9,669,191 people

% (age 25+) w/College Degree

10%

24%

Population Average Age

35 years old

34 years old

Average Household size

2.3 persons

2.4 persons

Median Household Income

$12,028

$43,870

Avg. # of Rooms in Household

4.4 rooms

5.5 rooms

Median Age of Housing Structure

70 years old

46 years old

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% Owning / % Renting

32% / 68%

70% / 30%

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