Jalen Rose Leadership Academy (JRLA) is an open enrollment charter high school in northwest Detroit, Michigan.

Rose had earlier offered university scholarships but took additional measures by opening the school.

[2] Because of Rose's celebrity status, the school received over $1 million in donations by September 2012.

Several foundations have given funds to the school, and legendary Detroit Pistons point guard Isiah Thomas pledged to give $100,000.

Chastity Pratt Dawsey of the Detroit Free Press wrote that "Rose's celebrity and connections differentiate this new school from others".

The organization Operation Graduation had spent $450,000 to purchase the school campus and about $1 million to renovate it.

In the summer of that year the school sent teachers to a conference about Spencer Kagan's small group learning model in Battle Creek, Michigan.

Originally English language and mathematics classes had maximum sizes of 10 students, and because of that salaries of staff made up over half of the school's budget.

[5] Dawsey wrote "The school aims to create a safe learning environment without the use of metal detectors.

Its physical education class includes golf, tennis, and outdoor survival skills.

[5] When the school opened in 2011 its curriculum had heavy involvement on the internet with most classes having internet-based projects, known as e-labs.

For the final trimester the school decreased the number of technology lessons since it did not have the funds to fix the computers.

[5] The e.labs were not aligned with the Common Core, and by the end of the first year, the school determined the e.labs were not rigorous enough and therefore stopped using it.

[2] The campus is surrounded by Comstock Park and is in proximity to the intersection of the John C. Lodge Freeway and 8 Mile Road.

[2] JRLA has blue and yellow furniture to match the colors of the University of Michigan.