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Southwest Detroit is a neighborhood within
Detroit Detroit ( , ; , ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also the largest U.S. city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of government of Wayne County. The City of Detroit had a population of 639,111 at t ...
. Clark Park is a popular park within the Hubbard Farms area of southwest Detroit (not to be confused with the similarly named
Clark Park Clark Park is a municipal park in the Spruce Hill section of West Philadelphia in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its are bordered by 43rd and 45th streets, and by Baltimore and Woodland Avenues. The park was established in 1895 on land donated to ...
in
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). It is also well known for Mexicantown, Detroit's vibrant Mexican community.


Economy

Southwest Detroit has many independent grocery stores. In particular Southwest Detroit has several Hispanic supermarkets, or ''supermercados'', that stock meat, specialty produce, and tortillas.


Education

Residents are within
Detroit Public Schools Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD) is a school district that covers all of the city of Detroit, Michigan, United States and high school students in the insular city of Highland Park. The district, which replaced the original Detr ...
and are zoned to
Western International High School Western International High School is a public high school, located across from Clark Park, within southwest Detroit's Mexicantown. Western is operated by the Detroit Public Schools system. As of 2012, it was the final remaining public high school ...
o
Cesar Chavez High school
with the added option of attendin
Detroit Cristo Rey High School
which is a private, catholic college prep school. . Previously Southwestern High School was in Southwest Detroit. Southwestern closed in 2012,Foley, Aaron.
Closing southwest Detroit schools would be devastating, protesters say
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and students were reassigned to Western.Satyanarayana, Megha.
Contents of Southwestern High School go up for sale online today
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Detroit Free Press The ''Detroit Free Press'' is the largest daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, US. The Sunday edition is titled the ''Sunday Free Press''. It is sometimes referred to as the Freep (reflected in the paper's web address, www.freep.com). It primari ...
''. October 18, 2012. Retrieved on November 1, 2012.
The current Munger Elementary-Middle School, which opened in 2012, had a cost of $22.2 million.School of the Week: Munger Elementary-Middle School

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Detroit Public Schools Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD) is a school district that covers all of the city of Detroit, Michigan, United States and high school students in the insular city of Highland Park. The district, which replaced the original Detr ...
. October 7, 2013. Retrieved on November 23, 2015.


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* Neighborhoods in Detroit {{Detroit-stub