Michigan boasts a number of Catholic preparatory schools. Brother Rice High School is an all-boys institution in Bloomfield Hills. It was founded in 1960 by the Congregation of Christian Brothers, an Irish order, and is named for their founder. The Jesuit order established the University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy, another boys' school, in 1877. The exodus of affluent families from Detroit since the 1960s prompted the school to add the academy, which accepts students as early as the seventh grade. The Marian High School in Bloomfield Hills is a school for girls, established in 1959 by the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Detroit Country Day School was founded in 1914 by F. Alden Shaw, who felt that the countryside offered boys a healthier learning environment than the city. Although the school has moved several times it still emphasizes outdoor activity. The school's determination to produce what it calls scholar/athletes is reflected in its slogan, "Mens Sana In Corpore Sano" (a sound mind in a sound body). Today the school is a fully coeducational K-12 institution, with girls forming almost 50 percent of the student body.
The Cranbrook Schools, of Bloomfield Hills near Detroit, are composed of a preschool and elementary school, separate boys' and girls' middle schools and a coeducational high school, which accommodates both day and boarding students. Founded in 1904, the campus boasts buildings designed by many leading architects and was named a National Historic Landmark in 1989. The Cranbrook Schools place a heavy emphasis on technology, with computerized instructional tools throughout the institution.
The Roeper School maintains two campuses in Bloomfield Hills and Birmingham, Michigan. It was founded in 1941 by George and Annemarie Roeper, German educators who had fled the Third Reich. The school's humanistic vision is in large part a reaction to the absolutism of Nazi Germany. The Roepers made a lifelong study of the special educational needs of gifted children, and Annemarie continues to write and lecture on the subject. Roeper is a K-12 institution with a deliberately diverse student body.