Original Research by School Decision on Casa
CASA is listed as a regular public high school serving grades nine through twelve, located on Rosewood Street in Oak Park and operating under Ferndale Public Schools. The directory marks it as open, and it is neither a charter nor a magnet school. Beyond those basics, the available data is unusually sparse, and several of the gaps are worth naming plainly so a reader does not mistake absence for weakness.
Enrollment is reported as zero across all four grade levels. Race and ethnicity counts are similarly reported as zero in every category. Free and reduced-price lunch information is missing entirely, as are special-education and English-learner figures. No state assessment results appear in the data, no multi-year academic trend series was provided, and no graduation rate is available. The neighbor comparison set, which positions this school relative to districts in Oakland County, could not compute a proficiency index, a graduation rate, or a chronic absenteeism rate because the entity values are missing. Program offerings, course access, staffing, discipline, and attendance data were all absent. A school with no enrolled students and no reported outcomes is difficult to evaluate in any conventional academic sense, and the data does not explain why enrollment reads as zero.
What the district brief does provide is context worth noting. Publicly reported information indicates that Ferndale Lower Elementary School opened in the fall of 2024 on the site of the former Jackson Elementary and Center for Advanced Studies and the Arts in Oak Park, serving grades K through two as part of a district elementary restructuring. The address listed for that site matches CASA's Rosewood Street location. This suggests CASA may have been a specialized program that occupied that building before the restructuring, though the data does not state this directly. A parent interested in CASA would want to contact Ferndale Public Schools to confirm whether the program still operates, where it has moved, or whether it has been discontinued.
The community surrounding the school is well documented. Oak Park is an inner-ring suburb of Detroit in Oakland County, describing itself as business-minded and family-centered with a motto of community, culture, and commerce. The built environment is postwar suburban development on a grid of mile roads, with the Reuther Freeway passing through the northern edge and Eight Mile Road forming the southern boundary. Major employers include a FedEx distribution center on the former Detroit Artillery Armory site and the WeatherGard window manufacturing headquarters. Civic amenities include a community center, library, municipal pool, ice arena, sledding hill, and sports courts and fields. Annual events such as Summerfest, Concerts in the Park, Winterfest, and an Independence Day parade bring periodic street life. The city's population has declined slightly since the 2020 census, following a mid-century period when it was named America's fastest-growing city.
The housing market in CASA's zip code sits well below both the state and national benchmarks for typical home values, making it one of the more affordable areas within Oakland County. Rents are similarly modest. The broader county market shows active and new listings trending upward year over year, with median listing prices in the county running well above this zip code's typical home value. Homes in the area move at a moderate pace, and affordability metrics suggest renting costs less than owning at current mortgage rates. For a family weighing where to live while considering school options in Ferndale Public Schools, Oak Park offers a relatively affordable entry point within an otherwise higher-cost county, though the school data for CASA specifically is too thin to support an academic judgment. Contacting the district directly is the clearest next step.
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