Karen P. Ridgeway

Karen P. Ridgeway, who has served as Assistant Superintendent of the Office of Research, Evaluation, Assessment and Accountability, has been named as the Superintendent of Academics.

Ridgeway has been continuously employed by the Detroit Public Schools for the past 30 years.  She has been with the Office of Research, Evaluation, Assessment and Accountability from September 1998 to the present.

Ridgeway is a product of the Detroit Public Schools completing her matriculation as a member of the first full graduating class of Martin Luther King, Jr. Senior High School.  She has served as a teacher for special education students, acting special education department head, special instructor – Wayne County Youth Home, school-wide test coordinator, Program Associate, Director of Assessment and Executive Director for the Office of Research, Evaluation, Assessment and Accountability for the Detroit Public Schools.  Ridgeway holds a B.S., M.Ed., and Ed.S., from Wayne State University.

She has oversight of Pupil Population Management, Student Information Systems, Student Records and Transcripts and the District Archivist and has served the District as an executive level Cabinet member since July 2005.

Ridgeway is married and a lifelong resident of the City of Detroit.