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Considered one of the premier private schools of the Midwest, Cranbrook was founded in 1922. A companion girls school, Kingswood, where Mitt Romney's wife, Ann Romney, attended, was established in 1931.
Today, Cranbrook still has separate middle schools for boys and girls but coeducational high school classes. The campus, renowned for its architecture, is on a 319-acre estate that sits off Woodward Avenue north of Detroit.
Margot Snyder, wife of Ben Snyder, the former assistant headmaster, said the campus is so beautiful that when she first saw it, "I thought I had been dropped into paradise."
Like Maumee Valley Country Day School in Toledo, it drew a largely affluent clientele because you had to have money to afford the tuition.
Unlike in the 1960s, Cranbrook today has a strict policy against bullying that is taught in every grade starting in preschool, said Clayton Matthews, Cranbrook's director of communications.
"We have students as young as 3 and as old as seniors. There are anti-bullying programs in every grade," he said.
Mr. Matthews said the school could not speak directly to the reported incident involving Mr. Romney. He said the school's current director, Arlyce Seibert, was unavailable for media comment until Monday....
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